Official Plans

Happy July 4th!  This post took a week longer than anticipated.

Real Centerpiece (Brazil colors)

The team, the whole team, and many more than the team, gathered Thursday night June 30th in Lynchburg, VA at Centenary UMC and was greeted by a hot afternoon, a perfect cold plate supper, with service, no number of stars can rate!!!  Off the charts!  Even the centerpiece was lovely!

Thanks Centenary for hosting the Virginia Young Adults Brazil Mission team and your hard work and patience preparing, feeding, serving, and cleaning for us!  It was the fuel we needed to continue on with business for the trip.


So, here are the outcomes:The crafts are as follows...

Friendship bracelets to *possibly* be made by local churches to be given to the children in Brazil, and then in return Brazil kids to make bracelets for the children in VA.

Butterfly Craft

A colorful butterfly cut out from a standard piece of paper hand colored, and hang with a string and tied into the creation story. (Genesis 01:1-12)






A crafted Jacobs Ladder with Popsicle sticks tied into Jacobs dream of heaven. (Genesis 28:10-22) Popsicle sticks cut and glued with yarn to hang them to remember the lesson.

Jacobs Ladder Craft

A paper plate with cotton balls glued on for a sheep tied into the lost sheep parable.  Jesus is our Shepherd, and we are the Sheep and sometimes we sheep get lost. It takes a shepherd to put us back with the herd. (Luke 15:3-7)

Lost Sheep Mask

Coloring sheets for each of these stories.


We as a team have to pack the items (supplies and tools) used to make these crafts and travel to Curitiba, Brazil with them. 1200 cotton balls, 1000 Popsicle sticks, glue, cutters, paper-plates, yarn, scissors, paper, tongue depressors, crayons, markers, and bracelets.  But this team WILL make it work!

The interesting thing, is we can only check one bag going down, because we have to change airports in the middle of flights.  On the return trip, (for those willing to return) we can have 2 checked bags...do they make a blow up suitcase?

T-Minus 10 days, 3 hours until departure from Greensboro, NC!!!
(As of 5pm Monday July 11th, 2011)

Stay tuned...