What will I be doing on my trip?

Finally, the answer to the question you've all been asking! I will be flying to Swaziland with about 300 other participants. We will be broken into groups of about 20 each, and each group will be assigned to a different Swazi church. Each day we will leave the hotel and drive to "our" church to put on a VBS for the orphaned street kids in that area. This is something Heart for Africa has never done before... in previous years, the teams have simply helped out at Christian children's homes in Swaziland. However, the homes aren't big enough to reach out to all of the orphans there, so this year the organization is trying to involve local churches. Representatives have already scouted out churches and discussed reaching out to the street orphans with them, but the pastors are having a hard enough time feeding their own children that they can't even imagine helping all the orphans in their community. That's why Heart for Africa is making this trip - to show the churches there how easy it can be to put on a VBS for the kids, and hopefully begin helping them see a way toward helping these kids long term. At the end of the week, all of the kids and us volunteers will be packed onto buses and taken to a large stadium for "Litsemba Day" ("litsemba" means "hope" in SiSwati), an event of worship, fun, and a sharing of the Gospel message. This, in a very large nutshell, is what I will be doing! The trip is from July 15-25; the first and last day will be spent in flight to and from Africa, and another day will be spent visiting a game preserve and a local marketplace. The rest of the days will be spent as I wrote above. :)

Keep an eye on my progress here!

https://www.heartforafrica.org/trips/FundRaising.aspx?Profile=12

On this page you can see how much money has been raised and how much I need to raise in total. On the left is a link to my donors, where you can see your donation listed among the others I have received. :)

Welcome to my blog!!!

To all of my wonderful donors, thank you so much for your assistance in helping me get to Swaziland! This blog will be my way of sharing my adventures with you regarding my trip! I will most likely be posting photos and stories of the trip itself sometime in early August, as I will be returning from my trip on July 25. Until then, I will be posting more about the details of my trip and what I will be doing in Swaziland, so please come visit this site periodically as I upload more information. Thank you again for your donations!

God bless!

Trisha Guinn