RELIEF!
Our team has booked our tickets(after some roadblocks and 3hour phone calls), and everyone is SUPER close to meeting their fundraising needs.
THANK YOU ALL for your part in supporting this trip, and the work we will do there! Here’s what has changed about or trip:
*Our original dates were July17th-30th, but due to some hangups with ticket prices our NEW DATES ARE JULY 21st-AUGUST 6th.
*The original plan was to stay at a camping ground, but due to the date change we are now staying in the dorm area AT the Nsoko Carepoint. This is actually a great change for a few reasons: 1) It’s cheaper for us in general, leaving us more money to use for our projects! 2) The money we are spending on lodging now goes straight to the carepoint and benefits them! 3) We will also be saving money on transportation costs 4) we wont be as cold at night! 5) Tents take up a lot of space, now we have more room in our luggage to bring more donations and supplies for our projects!
So, we are now 10 days out, for real! And we’re just trying to sell more t-shirts through Bloom, get our plans together and prepare for the unexpected.
It’s starting to feel a little more real, but I know it wont be completely real until we’re standing in line at LAX waiting to board our 20hour flight. After that, the closer we get and the more we become connected to the people of Nsoko it will become gradually more and more real. By the last day it will feel like the most real thing we’ve ever known, and then coming home will feel unreal. The LA and San Diego pace will be annoying fast, the people will feel annoying cold, and our activities will feel annoying unfulfilling. BUT our beds will feel amazingly comfortable! That I know for sure!
As far as fundraising goes, I’m SO close! If you’ve commited to donating but haven’t yet, now would be your 15 minutes of fame! If you still would like to make a donation, it will still be effective and helpful. And to those of you who already have, and especially to those of you who have shared this within your circle of friends and they have donated, Thank you. Really, THANK YOU! IT wouldn’t be possible without all of you! I knew it would happen, even in tough times like these, when we all band together, we can really make anything happen. If it’s meant to be, it will be. We’re all just the hands and feet to make it happen here on earth.
So for now, I’m compiling questions for the Legacy Book interviews, healing from my Typhoid shot, gathering my warm clothes, and looking forward to having snot nosed, smiling kids all over me, and to photograph parents that don’t have much time left loving their kiddos. I can’t wait. And I pray that each of you would feel your part in this, and that you would find joy like this wherever you are being used. Whether it’s your own child, your niece, your cousin, your parent… we’re all blessed to know one another, soak it up and realize how important you are to someone out there.
Also, if you would keep our team in your prayers, that would be SO appreciated. We are going to have an amazing time, that is for sure. But we will still be challenged, our of our comfort zones, and confronted with some tough issues. So if you would pray for our protection in both emotional/mental and physical ways, and for our time to be used wisely, and for our travel to be safe and smooth, and for our health…. thank you.
for last minute donations:
http://adventures.org/give
Click “Missions Trip Participant”
Select “Visions Trip” from drop down menu
Enter “Paloma Ynda-Ramsey” as my name(duh)
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