The PPM staffers are hanging at the Global Village Hotel anxiously awaiting the safe arrival of the team members from Hibben United Methodist Church, as well as Tom & Diana Boyd and Tracy & Dan Cross. Once they get here, we'll grab a BBQ lunch and go meet the Galilee Baptist church family. Please be praying for a great first day of ministry in Belize and keep checking back over the next week for updates!

After a safe flight and landing here in Belize we were off! We traveled to Eustace's BBQ stand to have a delicious meal. Despite the rain we had a wonderful time. While waiting for the rest of our group to arrive we settled into our rooms and got a slight rest. Then we headed off to Galilee Baptist for home visits around the community. We invited the people to the sports ministry, the dental clinic, and women's ministry. We ended the evening with some fellowship with the people of the church, headed back to the hotel for our meeting and headed to bed to get some well deserved rest before our Sunday service. Thank you for all our prayers and thoughts! Love to all!

Jared and Cory jamming on the drums and keyboard tonight...

We had a wonderful day worshiping the Lord with our friends at Galilee Baptist Church. We got to church bright and early and enjoyed a wonderful Sunday School lesson about Joshua and then celebrated our life in Christ through a message about not conforming to the ways of this world but standing out for God from Pastor Ruperto. After Church we headed over to Dorothy Menzie's Children's Home and spent a couple hours playing with the children and showing them the love which Christ has given us. We finished the evening off with another amazing and God-filled Church service with the congregation of Galilee Baptist. We are looking forward to our first official day of construction, sports ministry, women's ministry, and the dental clinic tomorrow. Please continue to pray for us as we continue to use the gifts and talents that God has given us to reach out to the people of Belize. Praise be to God!

Thank you to our friends we left at home in Charleston for joining us at church this morning :)

Some of our pelicans singing worship at church this evening...

Craig Rhyne Jr. removes the first tooth of the day.

Cyrene and Pam use their new invention (aka an umbrella and a broom) to move sand into the soccer field to help with the water.

Davis brought a frog home in his pants.....you'll have to ask him for the story.

Hello All! We miss you all and enjoy reading all of the wonderful comments you have left. It is good to know that we are being covered in prayer every step of the way. Thank you all so much!.
We had an amazing first full day of ministry here in Belize. We started early in the morning working at the site where we will be building the house and were able to finish the foundations, we had a fantastic time in the dental clinic and were able to see 51 patients, Praise God! What a wonderful testimony it is. In the afternoon we had a successful sports ministry and were able to spend a couple hours hanging out with about 50 children from the neighborhood. Tracy led a awe-inspiring, encouraging women's group that touched the heart of every woman who attended. God is doing marvelous things here in Belize and we are so privileged that he has appointed us to be the ones to carry them out! Thank you again for all your prayers and we look forward to seeing you again and sharing our stories in person. God Bless!

It has been a few days since our last trip journal. I know you must be thinking that we are just plain lazy or living on Island time, but the internet has been something of a hindrance. So if you don’t mind, I’m going to catch you up on our last two days. Yesterday we got to visit the Mayan ruins of Altun Ha in the morning. The Hibben group got to learn about the ruins and even climb on top of them. In the afternoon, we continued to work on a fence for the back of the Galilee Baptist Church and saw more patients at the dental clinic. The evening included the usual sport’s and women’s ministries. God has been doing some amazing things with the women who have been coming to the ministry and we are excited to see what he’ll do with our last day tomorrow.

For today, we woke up bright and early just so that we could have our bus driver, Thomas, give us a tour of the south side of Belize City. Upon arrival at the church, we continued to lay foundation for the home we are building which actually was completed. The dentists and accompanying crew were able to meet a lot of really great people today as they were cleaning teeth and pulling them. This included a WW2 veteran who had some work done in the morning. Later on in the evening came the sports and women’s ministries. For the sports ministry, we got to divide up into two teams and play a US vs. Belize soccer match of which the children had a lot of fun. Tonight was also our night to cook and visit the homes of a few church members from Galilee Baptist. The supper ministry spurred the team to search above and beyond themselves to minister to people in need. This included serving a spaghetti dinner to 3 different families. We were glad to be able to serve as a reminder to those families that God takes care of his children. Our last event of the evening was a prayer service in which Pastor Roberto led us to pray for the community here and the need for hope and faith in our lives as well as the lives of his church members.

Davis finds a new friend during the afternoon sports ministry.

Shortly after this picture was taken, Betty dodges a flying tooth with her clean gloves still intact.

Jordan got multiple hairdo's during the afternoon sports and received many compliments on his beautiful hair.

Tracy shares a moment with one of the boys during sports ministry.

JP and Craig Jr. attempt to crack open coconuts on the rocks.

Alicia finds a new friend and shares a smile.

Galileans from former years joined the group while on their trip to Altun Ha.

219. 4 and 1. 60+. 15. What are all these numbers you ask? These are the numbers that surrounded our last day of ministry here in Belize. 219 represents the number of patients that were helped through the dental clinic. A huge increase from last year, Praise God! 4 and 1 represent the work that was completed on Sherlette's house. The construction crew was able to put up the frames for all 4 walls and for the roof. What a wonderful ministry and blessing that is for her family! 60+ stands for the number of children that were blessed through the sports ministry yesterday and were able to experience a fun time in the park with us. Last but not least, 15 is the number of women who were helped through the women's ministry and were able to connect with the women from our team in a way that reassures us that we are all one in Christ. God certainly did some amazing things during our last day working at Galilee Baptist and we were so blessed by everything that happened. As we look forward to our day of relaxation and fun on Caye Caulker we realize that it is not "Goodbye" to the people of Galilee Baptist but a simple "See You Later" and so we say "Until We Meet Again!"

Alicia and Pam working on the framing for Sherlette's house.

The team took some time out from their busy day to read a little bit of news from their hometown.

The team takes a second to snap a photo while they are waiting for the plywood to arrive.