February Newsletter

February 15 has come & gone and most of you were right on time with your applications and I would like to thank you for that. This year’s team will be fairly large and that means that the paper work will be pretty complex – especially if you don’t send everything on time and all together. Please keep in mind that there will be over 120 of us and Terri & I will need your help to get us your stuff (and money) on time. Here are a few simple requests that will really help us out:

1) If you sent an application without a passport number, we still need it. Please email (or snail mail) your number as soon as you get it.

2) If you sent a deposit without an application, please go to
irccorp.org to download an application. Fill in the application and mail it as soon as possible. You will not be assigned an airline ticket if we do not have an application.

3) If you are under 18 and traveling without a parent, you MUST have a Spanish consent form completed, notarized, and in my file. You can download this from the site mentioned in #2.

4) The next due date will be May 1^st. All airfare is due and the payment per person will be $600. This is a HARD due date and means that I need to have the money ready to deposit on May 1. Money is due on this date so that we can pay the airlines before a late penalty is incurred.

Working Funds
Now is the time to build up our working funds. Here are several uses of these funds:

1) Houses - This summer we will be building both wooden & block houses – and every house we build will be built better than any we have built in the past. The cost per block house will be about $1100 and a better variety of wooden house will cost about $800. We will build about 15 wooden houses and 5 or 6 block houses.

2) Food – We plan to pack about 1000 bags of food for hungry families. Each bag will cost about $14.00

3) Medicine – We will have at least 4 days of clinics where we will treat over 500 people a day. The medicines for a one day clinic will cost about $1000.

4) Church Building – We plan to plant a new church and build a building. The cost of the building will be about $10,000 and the land will be another $2,500.

Our team has ambitious plans and we will all need to work together to make our plans come together. Please pray for the planning, the resources, and the work that God has planned for our team.

Our God is good…..All the time.

Get ready for another great day in Honduras,

Marc