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Important Trip Dates:

Trip Dates: July 13th – 23rd
 El Salvador Ministry Days – July 13th, 17th – 23rd
 Honduras Ministry Dates – July 14th – 17th

Team Deadline Dates:

 Trip sign up & $600 deposit (non-refundable because an airline ticket will be
purchased) – April 13th
 Trip money due – June 15th

Team Meeting Dates (1pm – 2:30pm):

 Sunday, April 10th
 Sunday, May 15th
 Sunday, June 13th
 Sunday, July 10th (packing, organizing, and final preparations)

Trip Costs:
 $700 plus airfare
(Probably right around $1250 in total…pray for cheap airfare!)

Other Important Details:

 Make sure your passport is up to date.
 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that you get
some vaccinations – Hepatitis A & B and Typhoid.
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The dates for this summer’s mission trip are July 13th – 23rd. Once again, we’ll be working with SOS
Ministries ministering to orphans, encouraging pastors & elders, leading a youth conference,
partnering with wonderful El Salvadorian and Honduran churches, and much more. This trip is
open to both teens and adults.

In El Salvador, the main area we will be ministering in is around a city called Rosario de La Paz,
which is located in the province of La Paz; and, as usual, we will also be going to Hacienda
Grande, Honduras (just outside of Copan) for several days of ministry.

Over the past 8 years, SOS Ministries and our church family have formed strong relationships with
our Christian brothers & sisters in this area of El Salvador; and for the past five years, the same
thing has been happening in this region in Honduras. This is exciting stuff! God is doing
wonderful things and the Kingdom is advancing in these poverty-stricken areas! Come be a
part and see for yourself!

The cost for this trip is $700 plus airfare (which is usually around $550). A $600 deposit is due on
April 13th and the rest is due on June 15th. So, one thing you need to get started on ASAP is your
mission support letters. These are letters you send to family and friends asking them to help out
financially with the trip. Your support letters need to be mailed out with a return envelope
addressed to Grace Christian Fellowship with your name written in the bottom right corner.

Please do not hand out your support letters and envelopes to random church members, mail
them or give them directly to your family and friends. Our church will have an opportunity to
give through offerings to this trip and we do not want to take advantage of them!

And please don't be swayed by the cost of the trip...if the Lord wants you to go, the money will
most definitely come in! Just be diligent to get those support letters our ASAP! And be praying!
This is going to be a wonderful, God-honoring trip!

The $600 deposit is due April 13th!

(Non-refundable tickets will be purchased that week.)
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(The italicized letters must be included in your letter!)

Dear Bill Gates

God has graciously given me a wonderful opportunity to go on a short term mission trip
this summer. A group from our church, Grace Christian Fellowship, consisting of teens
and adults, will be heading to El Salvador & Honduras. The main city/area will be
ministering in is Rosario de La Paz, El Salvador which is located in the province of La Paz;
and we will also be going to Hacienda Grande, Honduras (just outside of Copan) for
several days of ministry with a number of new church plants. Our entire trip will last for
11 days, leaving on July 13th and returning home on July 23rd.

The organization we will be working with is S.O.S. Ministries and our trip will be lead by
Michael Schadt (S.O.S. missionary/founder). We will be very busy on this short trip as we
participate in a number of activities including: ministering to the local children in the
villages, construction of a playground in Zacatecoluca, El Salvador, putting on a youth
conference in Rosario, bringing much needed supplies, and assisting the local churches
in Hacienda Grande.

As one would expect, there is a cost in participating in such a trip. We are currently
raising funds for the trip and would greatly appreciate your financial support. Every little
bit helps! If you are moved to assist financially, please make your check payable to
Grace Christian Fellowship and return it in the enclosed envelope. To adhere to IRS
requirements and to receive tax credit, please do not place my name anywhere on the
check.

If I, for any reason, am unable to travel on this mission trip, your contribution will be used
to assist someone else going on the trip and you will still receive tax credit. If you have
questions regarding our trip or donations, please contact the church office at (727)584-
1015. If you are unable to give financially (and if you are able to give), your prayers for
our trip would be much appreciated.

We are expecting wonderful things to take place on this trip to El Salvador & Honduras,
both in the lives of those to whom we are able to minister to and in the lives of those
from our church who are going. I pray for the Lord's blessing upon you and I would also
like to thank you in advance for your financial and prayer support as the Lord so would
lead you.

Sincerely,

Rev. Heath Watson