Final plans and Information

5 days. Wow. time flies when you're having fun. Well not much has changed since I wrote last. I am leaving Liberal Saturday to go spend some time in the Sterling area before leaving. Brittany and I are scheduled to fly out at 10:28 Tuesday morning. We are supposed to land at 10:30 that night in Lima, but we'll see if that actually happens. I don't have much faith in airlines anymore. We will then spend the night in a hostal (Oscar's Hostal) with Ken Biron, the missionary. Our flight from Lima to Chiclayo is early Wednesday afternoon. A short bus ride will get us to the school. And by short I mean about 10 minutes. I don't exactly know what will happen after that. I don't know when building will begin or anything. That will all be determined once we get there. I do know that a second plot of land has been donated. It is about 10 meters bigger each direction, but is a block away from our current building project. That is awesome, though. We can have two venues. The building will start on the smaller plot because the paperwork and plans are done for that. The other will be another project I guess. We'll see. Thank you for prayers so far. We have raised 13,000 of the estimated 25,500 dollars for the project. I am excited about this.

Now, many of you have been asking about mail and care packages. I will not be able to send or recieve any of this while there. The Peruvian government goes through all mail and takes what they want, so there is not a very good chance I would get anything that is sent. There are ways to help, though. If you really want to send something like a care pakcage this is what I suggest to do. Figure out what you would spend on items and shipping. Send that money to one of two addresses below. That can be wired down to us and then I will be able to distribute it however I feel necessary. So in a way I get to pick out what is in your care packages, haha. The top address is probably best because I don't know if Mitch wants to receive a lot of smaller donations. My church is going to send everything they get once a month in large sums, but it really doesn't matter. If you would rather the ckeck go straight to LACF, that is fine. Remember to keep checking in and I will update when i can. Thanks.

South Church of God
708 S. Washington
Liberal, KS 67901
(memo of Peru Fund)

LACF
c/o Mitch Dooley
PO Box 25
Chaffee, MO 63740
(memo of Milagro Fund)

Still working on stuff

Well the fund total now is about $11,500. I am so excited. Learning Spanish is going all right. I have been working everyday until my brain hurts. Tomorrow night I am going to go to the service of our Hispanic congregation to test things out and see how much I can understand in full-speed talking instead of from CDs and the workbook. If anyone has any long-term overseas packing tips I would love to hear them.

Getting Ready

Well. 26 days to go. Right now I am trying to cram as much Spanish in my head as I possibly can. Kind of nervous about that, but not too much. Also, the work camp has become a single volunteer. Brittany Small. I am excited about this, though because she has been to the school before and I trust her to help me get moved in.

Funds. Right now my home church sits at $8500 and I have received $2100 from the Methodist church in Sterling (where I went to college). Oh, and I graduated last Saturday. Yay. Anyway. The goal for the entire project is $25,500. That includes building estimate, moving in costs, flights, and monthly food allowances. We still need money, so if you know anyone who would like to sponsor the trip, send donations to South Church of God in Liberal, KS. Just write checks out to South Church of God with Peru Fund in the memo. Well, I will keep everyone updated. The whole blog thing is new to me, but I like it.