Thursday, March 11/2010
In addition to Jean Holding (Bequia Mission Treasurer), my wife Sandra and me, this year’s “Island Outreach” project to St. Vincent & The Grenadines included Reverend Lyle Horn, Betty LaBranche, and Debbie March. Lyle is the minister at Grace United Church in Peterborough, Ontario, and Betty and Debbie are members of his congregation and outreach group. All three of them had previously engaged in volunteer service projects in Honduras, building houses for the charitable organization, Friends of Honduran Children. Lyle had contacted me a few months ago to express interest in launching a similar partnership with the Bequia Mission in SVG and this trip would serve as something of a fact-finding mission, so as to allow us to determine whether our two organizations were a “good fit” for each other.
After staying overnight at an airport hotel in Toronto, the six of us flew to Barbados and then on to St. Vincent, arriving just after 6:00 p.m. We took a taxi from the airport to the RC Pastoral Centre in Edinburgh (on the outskirts of Kingstown), where the staff had kindly prepared and left for us a meal of stewed chicken, rice and peas.
In addition to Jean Holding (Bequia Mission Treasurer), my wife Sandra and me, this year’s “Island Outreach” project to St. Vincent & The Grenadines included Reverend Lyle Horn, Betty LaBranche, and Debbie March. Lyle is the minister at Grace United Church in Peterborough, Ontario, and Betty and Debbie are members of his congregation and outreach group. All three of them had previously engaged in volunteer service projects in Honduras, building houses for the charitable organization, Friends of Honduran Children. Lyle had contacted me a few months ago to express interest in launching a similar partnership with the Bequia Mission in SVG and this trip would serve as something of a fact-finding mission, so as to allow us to determine whether our two organizations were a “good fit” for each other.
After staying overnight at an airport hotel in Toronto, the six of us flew to Barbados and then on to St. Vincent, arriving just after 6:00 p.m. We took a taxi from the airport to the RC Pastoral Centre in Edinburgh (on the outskirts of Kingstown), where the staff had kindly prepared and left for us a meal of stewed chicken, rice and peas.
No comments:
Post a Comment