We've been working feverishly, a whole lot of people, trying to get ready for this trip. Some of our team members have experienced physical problems. Some have family members with severe health crisis or other types of crises. We know that we've been under attack and I have never felt this more keenly than on the days leading up to the day before we depart. Even as I write this, there is at least one person at the doctor's, trying to decide whether to go or not.
But soon, there will be quiet, the kind of eerie quiet that comes right before the storm... Yes, you heard me right. When you go on a short-term mission trip with RAD and me you are not going on a vacation! We put you to work and we try to use every awaken moment to learn something, touch someone, listen, pray, walk, work, encourage, cry, play, sing, write, and live life in full for two weeks in a foreign country where God is still speaking through the small things that people do and say every day. For two weeks, we get to walk where they walk and feel a little bit of their pain. We also get love from our precious children... a very high dosage of it.
If you don't believe how busy we will be, look at our daily schedule below. I know posting a schedule here is not the most exciting thing you will see here in the next couple of weeks, but I wanted you to see it so you can see where we will be and what we will be doing.
As you look at this schedule, please remember that we will be 12 hours ahead of Wooster. Also, please leave comments. We take time to read your "mail" every evening and it is a highlight of our day... hearing encouraging words from home!
Thank you for your prayers!
Pastor Ivanildo C. Trindade
itrindade@woostergrace.org
SE Asia Winter 2011 STM Trip Tentative Schedule
Key
PP – Phnom Penh WPP - Wieng Pa Pao
SR – Siem Reap GPT – Grace Place, Thailand
GPC – Grace Place, Cambodia
Thursday, Feb. 17th
2:30 am Meet @ Wooster Grace parking lot, travel all day!
Friday, Feb. 18th
10:40 pm Arrive in PP, spend the night at Guest House in PP, Prayer Partners
Saturday, Feb. 19th Blog Writer: Matt
6:00 Optional temple walk (meet hotel lobby)
7:30 Breakfast & Team Meeting
8:30 Leave for Battambang by bus, lunch along the way
1:30 Check into the TEO Hotel
2:15 Load up for GPC
2:30 Arrive Grace Place hang out with our kids
4:45 Load up for dinner
5:00 Dinner with Savorn & staff, hear their stories
6:30 Load for GPC
7:00 GPC Evening Program
Worship Set:
Testimony (1):
9:30 Load for TEO Hotel
10:00 Prayer Partners / Mail Call
Sunday, Feb. 20th Blog Writer: Jason
6:00 Optional temple walk (meet hotel lobby)
7:00 Breakfast
7:45 Leave for Grace Place Sunday Morning
8:00 Worship Service with Asia’s Hope children
Worship Set:
Testimony (2):
Speaker:
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Team Meeting on the TEO roof
2:50 Load up for Ministry Center with Kanes
3:00 Service at the Ministry Center
Worship Songs (2):
Testimony (1):
Speaker:
5:00 Jill Kane’s Bible Study
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Party at Grace Place to deliver sponsor gifts
10:00 Optional spend the night at the Grace Place or return to the hotel
Monday, Feb. 21st Blog Writer: Josh
6:00 Optional temple walk (meet hotel lobby)
6:45 Load bus for Grace Place
7:00 Cook / Serve Breakfast for children
Breakfast Coordinator:
9:30 Team Meeting
10:30 Team Ministry Set-up
11:00 Lunch
12:00 Team Ministry (works in 3 station rotation fashion)
Station 1 Tie Dye: Trish, Mike, Matt, Harlene
Station 2 Recreation: Adam, Stretch, Brad
Station 3 Makeover: Holly, Juana, Naza
Soccer: Jason, Josh
Pictures (where needed): RAD, IT
3:00 Optional: Jewelry Story/Set-up for concert: Josh
4:00 Load up bus for Ministry Center
4:30 Concert at the Ministry Center
Concert Set:
Testimonies (2): Josh,
Speaker:
6:30 Load for White Rose
7:30 Ice cream at the White Rose w/children
8:30 Head for dinner
9:00 Dinner & Prayer Partners / Mail Call
10:00 Pack for SR, hit the sack back at TEO
Tuesday, Feb. 22nd Blog Writer: Holly
5:00 am Leave for SR
8:30 Breakfast
9:00 Spend the day at SR
7:00 White Dove Ministries
9:00 Travel to hotel
9:30 Prayer Partners / Mail Call
Wednesday, Feb. 23rd Blog Writer: Adam
7:00 Load the bus for PP, breakfast along the way
1:00 Toul Sleng, Genocide Museum, Killing Fields
4:00 State Orphanage Service
Worship Set:
Testimony (1):
Speaker:
5:30 Free time
6:30 Load bus for dinner
7:00 Dinner
8:00 Team Praise @ the Guest House, Prayer Partners /Mail
9:00 Luggage prep, weigh in, get some rest
Thursday, Feb. 24th Blog Writer: Harlene
7:20 Leave for airport, breakfast on plane
8:30 Team Time @ airport
1:30 Check into Eco Resort, Chiang Mai
3:00 Travel to GROW Home
6:00 Dinner with kids at GROW
7:00 Worship with GROW staff and kids
Worship Set:
Testimony (1): Adam
8:45 Travel to Night Bazaar
9:00 Night Bazaar
11:00 Head to Eco and Prayer Partners / Mail Call
Friday, Feb. 25th Blog Writer: Mike
8:00 Breakfast & Team Meeting
9:00 Pack for WPP
9:45 Load for GROW Home
10:00 GROW Home Projects
Swing Set Assembly: Mike, Brad
Landscaping: Matt, Holly
English & School Prep: Harlene, Josh
Computer Networking: RAD, Trish
Painting: Stretch, Juana
House Cleaning (Windows etc.): Jason
Truck Detailing & Maintenance: Adam
Pictures: IT
12:00 Head for lunch
1:00 Team Ministry Set-up (all kids, staff & team together)
Recreation Leader: Adam
Tie Dye Leader: Trish
Makeover Leaders: Holly, Juana
4:30 Clean-up
5:00 Head for dinner
6:00 Travel to WPP
7:30 Arrive Grace Place Thailand, meet kids and settle in
8:00 Worship with children and staff
9:30 Prayer Partners / Mail Call
Saturday, Feb. 26h Blog Writer: Juana
8:00 Breakfast & Team Time
10:00 GPT Projects
Kitchen Remodeling: Mike
Team Ministry (works in 3 station rotation fashion)
Station 1 Tie Dye: Trish, Matt, Harlene
Station 2 Recreation: Adam, Stretch, Brad
Station 3 Makeover: Holly, Juana, Naza
Soccer: Jason, Josh
Pictures (where needed): RAD, IT
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Free Time
3:00 Meet GPT staff and widows, hear their stories
4:00 GPT Party, Sponsor Gifts
6:30 Clean-up
7:00 Dinner
8:00 Fireside Service
Worship Set:
Testimony (1):
Speaker:
9:45 Prayer Partners / Mail Call
Sunday, Feb. 27h Blog Writer: ?
9:00 Breakfast & Team Time
10:30 Worship Service with GPT
Worship Set:
Testimonies (2):
Speaker:
12:00 Pack, Hang out with children
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Travel to Chang Mai
3:30 Check into Eco
4:00 Load for College service
4:30 College Student Service, Josh Concert
Worship Set:
Testimony (1): Trish
Speaker: RAD
6:00 Dinner with College Students
6:45 Travel to Sunday Market
7:00 Sunday Market
11:00 Travel to Eco
11:30 Prayer Partners / Mail Call
Monday, Feb. 28h Blog Writer: Brad
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Travel to Doi Sothep, spend the day sight seeing, lunch and Team Time Reflection
3:00 Travel to Hill Tribe Village
4:30 Arrive Hill Tribe Village
5:00 Prep for Hill Tribe Service
6:00 Hill Tribe Service
Worship Set:
Testimonies (2):
Speaker:
7:30 Head to the church
8:00 Settle in, big group game amongst team
9:00 Prayer Partners / Mail Call
Tuesday, Mar. 1st Blog Writer: Tricia
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 Travel to Chang Mai
10:00 Arrive at Eco, Free time
11:30 Lunch with GROW children
1:00 Elephant Show, hang with children
2:30 Shop
5:30 Dinner
7:00 Night Bazaar
11:00 Travel to Eco
11:30 Prayer Partners, packing, luggage weigh-in & Mail
Wednesday, Mar. 2nd
Begin the journey home
Thursday, Mar. 3rd
Arrive home
7:00 pm Go to four14 (RAD)
But soon, there will be quiet, the kind of eerie quiet that comes right before the storm... Yes, you heard me right. When you go on a short-term mission trip with RAD and me you are not going on a vacation! We put you to work and we try to use every awaken moment to learn something, touch someone, listen, pray, walk, work, encourage, cry, play, sing, write, and live life in full for two weeks in a foreign country where God is still speaking through the small things that people do and say every day. For two weeks, we get to walk where they walk and feel a little bit of their pain. We also get love from our precious children... a very high dosage of it.
If you don't believe how busy we will be, look at our daily schedule below. I know posting a schedule here is not the most exciting thing you will see here in the next couple of weeks, but I wanted you to see it so you can see where we will be and what we will be doing.
As you look at this schedule, please remember that we will be 12 hours ahead of Wooster. Also, please leave comments. We take time to read your "mail" every evening and it is a highlight of our day... hearing encouraging words from home!
Thank you for your prayers!
Pastor Ivanildo C. Trindade
itrindade@woostergrace.org
SE Asia Winter 2011 STM Trip Tentative Schedule
Key
PP – Phnom Penh WPP - Wieng Pa Pao
SR – Siem Reap GPT – Grace Place, Thailand
GPC – Grace Place, Cambodia
Thursday, Feb. 17th
2:30 am Meet @ Wooster Grace parking lot, travel all day!
Friday, Feb. 18th
10:40 pm Arrive in PP, spend the night at Guest House in PP, Prayer Partners
Saturday, Feb. 19th Blog Writer: Matt
6:00 Optional temple walk (meet hotel lobby)
7:30 Breakfast & Team Meeting
8:30 Leave for Battambang by bus, lunch along the way
1:30 Check into the TEO Hotel
2:15 Load up for GPC
2:30 Arrive Grace Place hang out with our kids
4:45 Load up for dinner
5:00 Dinner with Savorn & staff, hear their stories
6:30 Load for GPC
7:00 GPC Evening Program
Worship Set:
Testimony (1):
9:30 Load for TEO Hotel
10:00 Prayer Partners / Mail Call
Sunday, Feb. 20th Blog Writer: Jason
6:00 Optional temple walk (meet hotel lobby)
7:00 Breakfast
7:45 Leave for Grace Place Sunday Morning
8:00 Worship Service with Asia’s Hope children
Worship Set:
Testimony (2):
Speaker:
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Team Meeting on the TEO roof
2:50 Load up for Ministry Center with Kanes
3:00 Service at the Ministry Center
Worship Songs (2):
Testimony (1):
Speaker:
5:00 Jill Kane’s Bible Study
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Party at Grace Place to deliver sponsor gifts
10:00 Optional spend the night at the Grace Place or return to the hotel
Monday, Feb. 21st Blog Writer: Josh
6:00 Optional temple walk (meet hotel lobby)
6:45 Load bus for Grace Place
7:00 Cook / Serve Breakfast for children
Breakfast Coordinator:
9:30 Team Meeting
10:30 Team Ministry Set-up
11:00 Lunch
12:00 Team Ministry (works in 3 station rotation fashion)
Station 1 Tie Dye: Trish, Mike, Matt, Harlene
Station 2 Recreation: Adam, Stretch, Brad
Station 3 Makeover: Holly, Juana, Naza
Soccer: Jason, Josh
Pictures (where needed): RAD, IT
3:00 Optional: Jewelry Story/Set-up for concert: Josh
4:00 Load up bus for Ministry Center
4:30 Concert at the Ministry Center
Concert Set:
Testimonies (2): Josh,
Speaker:
6:30 Load for White Rose
7:30 Ice cream at the White Rose w/children
8:30 Head for dinner
9:00 Dinner & Prayer Partners / Mail Call
10:00 Pack for SR, hit the sack back at TEO
Tuesday, Feb. 22nd Blog Writer: Holly
5:00 am Leave for SR
8:30 Breakfast
9:00 Spend the day at SR
7:00 White Dove Ministries
9:00 Travel to hotel
9:30 Prayer Partners / Mail Call
Wednesday, Feb. 23rd Blog Writer: Adam
7:00 Load the bus for PP, breakfast along the way
1:00 Toul Sleng, Genocide Museum, Killing Fields
4:00 State Orphanage Service
Worship Set:
Testimony (1):
Speaker:
5:30 Free time
6:30 Load bus for dinner
7:00 Dinner
8:00 Team Praise @ the Guest House, Prayer Partners /Mail
9:00 Luggage prep, weigh in, get some rest
Thursday, Feb. 24th Blog Writer: Harlene
7:20 Leave for airport, breakfast on plane
8:30 Team Time @ airport
1:30 Check into Eco Resort, Chiang Mai
3:00 Travel to GROW Home
6:00 Dinner with kids at GROW
7:00 Worship with GROW staff and kids
Worship Set:
Testimony (1): Adam
8:45 Travel to Night Bazaar
9:00 Night Bazaar
11:00 Head to Eco and Prayer Partners / Mail Call
Friday, Feb. 25th Blog Writer: Mike
8:00 Breakfast & Team Meeting
9:00 Pack for WPP
9:45 Load for GROW Home
10:00 GROW Home Projects
Swing Set Assembly: Mike, Brad
Landscaping: Matt, Holly
English & School Prep: Harlene, Josh
Computer Networking: RAD, Trish
Painting: Stretch, Juana
House Cleaning (Windows etc.): Jason
Truck Detailing & Maintenance: Adam
Pictures: IT
12:00 Head for lunch
1:00 Team Ministry Set-up (all kids, staff & team together)
Recreation Leader: Adam
Tie Dye Leader: Trish
Makeover Leaders: Holly, Juana
4:30 Clean-up
5:00 Head for dinner
6:00 Travel to WPP
7:30 Arrive Grace Place Thailand, meet kids and settle in
8:00 Worship with children and staff
9:30 Prayer Partners / Mail Call
Saturday, Feb. 26h Blog Writer: Juana
8:00 Breakfast & Team Time
10:00 GPT Projects
Kitchen Remodeling: Mike
Team Ministry (works in 3 station rotation fashion)
Station 1 Tie Dye: Trish, Matt, Harlene
Station 2 Recreation: Adam, Stretch, Brad
Station 3 Makeover: Holly, Juana, Naza
Soccer: Jason, Josh
Pictures (where needed): RAD, IT
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Free Time
3:00 Meet GPT staff and widows, hear their stories
4:00 GPT Party, Sponsor Gifts
6:30 Clean-up
7:00 Dinner
8:00 Fireside Service
Worship Set:
Testimony (1):
Speaker:
9:45 Prayer Partners / Mail Call
Sunday, Feb. 27h Blog Writer: ?
9:00 Breakfast & Team Time
10:30 Worship Service with GPT
Worship Set:
Testimonies (2):
Speaker:
12:00 Pack, Hang out with children
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Travel to Chang Mai
3:30 Check into Eco
4:00 Load for College service
4:30 College Student Service, Josh Concert
Worship Set:
Testimony (1): Trish
Speaker: RAD
6:00 Dinner with College Students
6:45 Travel to Sunday Market
7:00 Sunday Market
11:00 Travel to Eco
11:30 Prayer Partners / Mail Call
Monday, Feb. 28h Blog Writer: Brad
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Travel to Doi Sothep, spend the day sight seeing, lunch and Team Time Reflection
3:00 Travel to Hill Tribe Village
4:30 Arrive Hill Tribe Village
5:00 Prep for Hill Tribe Service
6:00 Hill Tribe Service
Worship Set:
Testimonies (2):
Speaker:
7:30 Head to the church
8:00 Settle in, big group game amongst team
9:00 Prayer Partners / Mail Call
Tuesday, Mar. 1st Blog Writer: Tricia
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 Travel to Chang Mai
10:00 Arrive at Eco, Free time
11:30 Lunch with GROW children
1:00 Elephant Show, hang with children
2:30 Shop
5:30 Dinner
7:00 Night Bazaar
11:00 Travel to Eco
11:30 Prayer Partners, packing, luggage weigh-in & Mail
Wednesday, Mar. 2nd
Begin the journey home
Thursday, Mar. 3rd
Arrive home
7:00 pm Go to four14 (RAD)
2 comments:
Wow, that is one heck of a schedule. . . only crazy people would endeavor for an outing like this, crazy people for Jesus! I'm praying with you each step of the way and can't wait to begin reading those team blogs! Bless you for being there in my place, I miss you all.
Praying for you and the busy schedule. We are so proud of you! Be our hands and feet. Share words of love and encouragement. Listen to each other and to those you come face-to-face. Go!
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