The team has arrived safely in Belize! We are headed West, will stop for dinner and on to our lodging at the Succotz-San Jose Nazarene Camp! More posts soon.

We had a wonderful BBQ lunch and we ate at the park by the Caribbean Sea. Then we visited an orphanage. We had a blast playing with the kids. We are eating dinner at cheers and then heading to the camp!

We went to Sunday school at the Evangelical Philadelphia Church this morning. This is the church we will be working with this week. Many of the youth from St. Mark’s gave testimonies and read prayers and Ms. Kim gave a sermon and then we had a lovely lunch at the church. We were able to go on neighborhood visits and reach out to the community to invite them to come to church that night and to VBS for the rest of the week. We also had a very fun sports ministry in the neighborhood. We played soccer, colored, and flew kites. Then had another service at the church that night.

another photo from Sunday

sports ministry

Today we at breakfast at the camp and then visited a nearby school. We did sports, skits, and had a dental ministry. God provided the exact perfect amount of the toothbrushes that the group passed out to the students.

4gals dental ministry

In the afternoon, we did a two service projects part of our group started painting a house while some others worked on painting the lines onto a basketball court.

We also had our first VBS today and 57 children show up which was such a blessing. We had a bible story, crafts, games, and music.

Today was another great day of mission work! This morning we had a break and went to a Mayan site!! The group hiked a mile up a pretty steep hill, once they reached the top of the hill they were able to explore site, Xunantunich. The tallest site was 500 feet to climb!! We were even able to shop in some of the shops and go out to lunch!

Xunantunich

After lunch we headed straight to our work site where we worked on painting a home in the neighborhood and the pastor’s house! The group worked hard even though it was rather warm out today! We had another great turn out for VBS! Our theme was “God loves us all the time.” We made sheep out of cotton balls and clothes pins. There was also a time for songs, snacks, and games!!

bible story

We finished this week strong! Wednesday we completed three of our service projects, had a school ministry, and the last day of VBS!! everyone worked so hard in order to everything wednesday! Wednesday night we had an awesome youth night at the church. Seven other churches joined and each group presented during the service, through song or dance!

The house we painted this week!

The last day of VBS

A picture for youth night! With Pastor Mark, our pastor for the week!

Thursday we woke up bright and early to drive to the water taxi to Caye Caulker! We spent the day relaxing on the island and almost everyone went snorkeling! For dinner we went out then had some time to ourselves before bed!! The team left for the airport early this morning! t was a great week!