Chilling Out On Elephants, By A Waterfall And On Bamboo Rafts [June 21] Trek day J We headed out to the mountains to spend some focused time together. Our team had great fun riding elephants – Verna’s laugh often echoed through the forest as her driverless elephant randomly forged its own paths through the trees. …
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Posted on: June 28th, 2011 • Keywords: international, missions, thailand
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Children and Sharks and Pandas, Oh My! Make-up and Bikes and… read on :) [June 20] After an amazing and passionate debrief we headed to the Chiang Mai zoo with the BBF children. The kids were enthralled with the animals and absolutely loved the fish and sharks swimming over us as we walked in clear …
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Posted on: June 23rd, 2011 • Keywords: international, missions, thailand
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Soccer Games and Sweat [June 19] “An early start saw us heading up to Chiang Dao to spend time with the children in a church service. It kicked off with the people there leading us in an awesome and very sweaty dance. This made the kids laugh and broke the shyness away from a new …
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Posted on: June 22nd, 2011 • Keywords: international, missions, thailand
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“As we splashed in the various pools and eddies of water created by the cascading water, the falls we visited in Johnston Canyon during our team excursion came to mind. Although much different in formation (and also separated by several degrees :) these waterfalls provided such an interesting picture of the contrasting properties of water …
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Posted on: June 21st, 2011 • Keywords: international, missions, thailand
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Running up a Waterfall [June 18] “What a blast! With BBF kids piled into the van and the back of the truck with us, we headed up to a waterfall outside Chiang Mai. We met up with children from the Prao and Chiang Dao orphanages and began with excited greetings and smiles. The Prao children …
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Posted on: June 20th, 2011 • Keywords: international, missions, thailand
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Cakes on a Cart and Manure in the Sun [June 17] “Lauren, Donna, Rob, Karl and Josie had fun sanding and painting a newly purchased cart. It is to be used to sell cupcakes at a nearby market and will be shared amongst the local orphanage homes. After several hours of sweaty labor, the cart …
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Posted on: June 19th, 2011 • Keywords: international, missions, thailand
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A Thousand Screaming Kids and Fishing in the Rain [June 16] “We woke up roaring to go and ride out to another village beyond Chang Mai. We began our time at an orphanage housing nine Lahu (hill tribe) children; they served us lunch and then took us to an area to play soccer. The kids …
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Posted on: June 18th, 2011 • Keywords: international, missions, thailand
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“As I’m sitting here listening to the laughter emanating from the classrooms and hearing the delight of the children playing outside, I am reminded again of the great blessings that have been bestowed upon our team and on the people here. After a long 18 hours in the air and a refreshing layover in Tokyo, …
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Posted on: June 16th, 2011 • Keywords: international, missions, thailand
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This summer, we are taking a team to Chiang Mai to build relationship and share the love of Christ with the hill tribe children in the BridgeWorks orphanages. As well, we want to see the members of this team’s lives transformed and awakened, growing in relationship with God and one another, and experiencing a greater …
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Posted on: February 18th, 2011 • Keywords: international, missions, thailand
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Have you always wanted to travel to the Holy Land, walking in the places where Jesus walked, and seeing some of the sights that Jesus saw? Well here’s your opportunity!
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Posted on: September 30th, 2010 • Keywords: international, opportunities
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If you feel led to support grassroots, on-the-ground organizations in Haiti, please join us as we give generously to Haiti Arise, an organization that is committed to: raise up Godly leaders in Haiti through education; to strengthen their families, neighbors and country; to bring relief to poverty and stimulate the economy; and to preach the Good News …
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Posted on: January 27th, 2010 • Keywords: haiti, international, missions, news
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Typhoon Ketsana, known in the Philippines as “Ondoy”, has had devastating effects on metro Manila and the surrounding area. Dumping more than an entire month’s worth of rain in a single day, metro Manila and the surrounding area has reported losses of more than 350 people, and more than $100 million in damages.
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Posted on: October 7th, 2009 • Keywords: international, missions, news
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Posted on: September 24th, 2009 • Keywords: international, missions
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From June 11-21, 2009, a team of students and young adults embarked on a multi-faceted trip to serve the people of Unitedville, Belize. They partnered with a family of missionaries who have served the people of Belize for the last decade. The heartbeat of this mission was to come alongside them and bless the local …
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Posted on: September 23rd, 2009 • Keywords: belize, international, missions
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This team of 8 missionaries was UChurch’s most diverse mission team to date – at least age wise, with the youngest participant being 19 years old and the eldest at 96 ½ years young. Though this team did a lot of “work” while they were in Tobago, they proclaim that the LORD through prayer did …
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Posted on: September 23rd, 2009 • Keywords: international, missions, tobago
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We all got quite a surprise and a bit of a scare Wednesday night, as the rain became a torrential downpour, and was soon accompanied with a lot of thunder and lightning. One particular boom shook our cabanas, and woke most of us up. Luckily, as the workday began, it was no longer downpouring, yet …
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Posted on: June 19th, 2009 • Keywords: belize, international, missions
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As of today, we have officially experienced the 2 extremes of Belizean weather… HOT HOT and WET WET… Our first 4 days were HOT HOT, followed by 2 days of CLOUDY YET STILL HOT, and TODAY it was WET WET… Our day started with shovelling dirt… Afer lunch the torrential downpour began and the dirt …
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Posted on: June 17th, 2009 • Keywords: belize, international, missions
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Today we spent all morning shoveling dirt, then we brought in a dump truck full of dirt and shoveled some more! Tomorrow we get to, guess what? You got it! Shovel dirt again in preparation for laying the cement floor. It was an eventful evening with the youth tonight. On a sad note, there was …
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Posted on: June 16th, 2009 • Keywords: belize, international, missions
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Over this past weekend, we had an opportunity to experience several aspects of the Belizian culture. On Staurday morning, we visited the market in San Ignacio, sampling many of fresh fruits that were available. So much better than in Canada. That afternoon we visited the Mayan ruins of Xunantunich. Unfortunately, earthquakes about a month ago …
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Posted on: June 15th, 2009 • Keywords: belize, international, missions
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