Some snapshots of our second week of camps:
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
BRAKING NEWS!
Check out BCE on LOCAL TV:
Click HERE to see a report from Channel 5 News.
*There seems to be a little misunderstanding yet about the relationship between Harvest for Kids and the BCE program, but we are happy that people at least understand that we love the children of Belize, and are working to offer them a quality Belizean relational program to share the Love of Jesus.
God gave us favour in the timing of the news stories. The story was shown on the same night that Belize was playing against the USA in GOLD Cup soccer.
Friday, July 5, 2013
Summer Camps 2013 get started!
On July 1st BCE
summer camps got underway.
The
curriculum is finished and printed!
In preparation for the summer we
gathered a group of Belizean women who have experience in Children’s ministry
to create Camp curriculum relevant to the Children of Belize.
This year’s theme is particularly
relevant to the children of Belize: “God inna di Chaos” (God in the midst of
chaos). Lessons will include the stories of:
Job, Deborah, Paul, the prodigal son and more! The missionary story will
feature the life story of our own Alexander Perez, and his journey to ministry.
We have printed off 2000 camper
booklets, for the children to take home and interact with the lessons taught,
and 200 leader guides for counselors and church leaders to use.
This summer's core team:
On June 8th two young ladies from the
Orange Walk district, of Belize, came to join us for the summer. They are part
of this summer’s core team of leaders. Marian Hiebert 22, a kindergarten
teacher in her home community of Blue Creek is in charge of Chapel. Esther Friessen 21,
from Ship Yard, is responsible for workshops. Romel Rudon, 19 St.John’s
graduate is co directing the camps. Rachael
Knox 16, high school student from Kingston Ontario, Canada is responsible for
the worship/songs aspect of the camps. Zachery Garbutt 17, graduate of St. Johns
Jr. College is leading the games for the summer.
Staff Training:
On July 29th we held our summer leaders training. We will spent the day interacting with
the various youth who will be helping over the course of the summer. We went over what to expect at the camps like: theme songs, lessons and stories,
games, and daily schedule. And much fun was had by all!
First Week of Camp:
We just completed our first week of summer camps. THis camp was held at Grace Primary School in Belize City, and it ran 5 days mornings only (which was nice, to have the afternoons to recover and prep, especially being the first camp of the summer). I seemed to rain all week, but the children still came, we had as few as 40 kids one day, and as many as 80 another day. We were also blessed to have a group of 5 youth from the Spanish Lookout EMMC church join 10+ Belize City youth to lead the campers throughout the day's activities.
Meanwhile with Harvest for Kids...
Before Camps got started, the core team took a quick trip to San Carlos to check on the Harvest for kids field there and say a prayer asking for the Lord's blessing:
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| Anya inspecting the machinery |
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| inspecting the 43 acres of corn in San Carlos |
Seeds of
the H4K vision are sprouting across Belize!
Its felt like a long process of communicating the
vision of Harvest for Kids, but recently we have seen communities and
businesses take initiative to support the project in new ways.
Ship Yard Community:
The “old order” Mennonite community of Ship Yard has
committed 10 acres of an unspecified crop to Harvest for Kids. As their own
group they want to be responsible to plant, grow, harvest and sell 10 acres of
a crop with the profits going to Harvest for Kids.
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| Ship Yard Farmers huddles around an iPad watching the H4K video |
SIRDI (Sugar Industry research and
Development Institute):
With the help of Jamin Castillo, Alexander has been
connecting with many small sugar cane farmers. Many of these farmers suggested
that H4K contact the big sugar cane industry companies. A meeting was arranged
with Mr. Marcos, president of SIRDI, a sugar cane research and development
institute. By the end of the meeting, Mr. Marcos was envisioning 20-30 acres of
sugar cane being planted on the road front in OW so all of the local people
could see what was being done for Harvest for Kids. Please pray that Mr. Marcos
will be able to arrange the meetings necessary with the “Sugar Cane
Association” and “BSI” to get this initiative started.
Two weeks ago the chairman of Circle ‘R’ products, a
major co-operative in Belizean Rice, approached us with their plans to support
Harvest for Kids. They are planning on changing the packaging on half of their
2lbs rice bags to include the Harvest for Kids logo, and from the sale of these
bags ¢1
will go to Harvest for Kids. They predict that if they sell all of this
specially bagged rice, it
should bring in around $500 a month for BCE.
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