Planning Stages

We have finally reached the planning stage of our trip and I couldn't be more excited!  The first few team meetings are to help us get focused and get to know each other better.  Once we learn who our LeaderTreks staff is and Greg has had a chance to discuss our trip with them, it's planning time!!!  And that started this last weekend.

Unlike a level 4 trip (like what I was on last year in Honduras) where students are in charge of everything, this is a level 3 trip where students are given the responsibility of one key element and then are given more responsibility once we get to Pawley's.  The area that we are planning is the Vacation Bible School/Sports Camp that we will run for 4 of the days we are in Pawley's.  On Sunday, our team started to brainstorm what we want that to look like.  Our 4 team members who were on the Pawley's trip last year, Caleb, Sarah, Nate, and Jensen, were each given a day to plan and the rest of the team was divided up into one of their groups. 

We already have some great ideas, as you can see from our brainstorming list above, and I'm super excited to see what the groups come up with for the kids in South Carolina!

Our team has officially been finalized with one student backing out, another student being added to the group, and a 3rd adult leader.  Here's the final list:

Greg, Josiah, and I (adult leaders)

Caleb, Alan, Jacob, Jordan,

Nate, Mike, Blake, Sarah

Ashlyn, Emmalie, Jensen, Lauren, & Mariah

 

Final Note:  Thank you to everyone who has donated financially and prayerfully to our mission!!!  We are very close as a team to being fully funded and are so grateful for everyone who is helping us serve God in this way.

Getting to know each other...

Our team is in the beginning of our planning stages right now.  We have completed one team fundraiser (our garage sale was a HUGE success).  We don't really need to start planning our vacation bible school/sports camp for at least another month.  So in our most recent team meeting we decided to focus on getting to know each other.


We played "I've Never," where everyone in the circle gets a certain number of candies (in our case, 5 skittles).  You go around the group and say something that you've never done.  If anyone in the group has done that thing, they have to eat a piece of their candy.  The last person with candy wins.  It was tons of fun!

Then we did a quick round of 2 truths and a lie.  You say two things about you that are true and one that is a lie.  As a group, we try to guess what the lie is. 

It was great to just spend some time learning more about each other.  We are gearing up to spend a lot of time with one another and meeting was a great beginning for all the bonding to come.