Our church sent 9 members to Belize in February 2005 on a medical and construction mission trip. This trip laid the groundwork for a five year partnership with the Baptist Association of Belize. In 2010, we extended the partnership, A medical and construction team has gone on mission to Belize every January from 2006 to the present. Each year, the medical team of doctors, nurses, and other health professionals - along with volunteers to assist - have conducted clinics in rural villages throughout the Cayo District of Belize. Each year the medical team serves hundreds of men, women and children at 4 or 5 locations, usually in small churches in local villages.
The construction team has worked at churches, schools, and private houses throughout the Cayo District. Three houses in the village of Camalote have been built or repaired, and one house in the village of Armenia. In addition, an agricultural mission has provided vegetable seeds to individuals and cattle breeding to strengthen the herd at the Central Farm in Belize. A music mission established a hand bell choir at Belmopan Baptist Church, providing a hand bell set and instruction.
Two teams of college students in 2007 and 2009 have gone to Belize painting churches, visiting an orphanage, and conducting a VBS. Last summer our first youth mission trip went to Belize, completing three painting projects in a week.
This January our medical team has planned four clinics to be held in village churches and at the Baptist Training Center as well as conducting well checks at the Kings Childrens Home. The construction team will be working on the second floor classrooms at Santa Elena Baptist Primary School. This is a joint effort by several churches in North Carolina working to complete the school for the village of Santa Elena.
The mission team thanks the church family and the community for continuing to support the Belize partnership this year and over the past eight years. Each mission team member pays his or her travel and subsistence expenses. Money raised by the church and community goes toward medicines and supplies for the clinics and construction supplies for projects.
Please be in prayer for the mission team this week as they prepare to leave and for safe travel on their departure on Saturday, January 19.
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