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Well, here I sit in a hotel in beautiful Sherman, TX thinking about the short 7 months that separate us from TORCH 2007.
Our new year promises to go fast and that means that all of us have a great deal of planning that needs to take place before we board planes and head south. The first thing that comes to my mind is a passport check. I'd suggest that everyone that hasn't seen their passport since they returned from Honduras last summer - find it, look at it to make sure it isn't going to expire anytime soon, and then put it in a safe place and tell others in your family exactly where it is. Last summer, we had a young lady that was certain that she knwe exactly where her passport was and when it came time to depart - the passport was lost and the young lady stayed home. You can't go to Hondo without a valid passport.
If you know of perple that are new to our group, encourage them to go now to apply for their passport.
I plan to post an application here in the next week or so and you'll all need to complete it and get it in with a $150 per person deposit. I have already paid about $100 per ticket deposit for 60+ airline tickets and I'm going to need to pay a deposit to the mission house in early 2007 so, I'm going to need your deposits by February. Since we are going to hold our group to about 80, you would be best advised to get in early rather than waiting. When we are full, we will be full. I'm not taking a monster team - 80 is the number.
Once again in 2007, we'll be asking everyone that signs an application to committ to raising an extra $200 (more is okay) for our benevolent work. Those dollars are our working fund and they allow us to buy food and build houses, hold clinics, and other good works. Tell your friends you'll build a house for them and you'd be surprised at how many people will be willing to help out.
Watch for the aplication soon.
I love y'all!
Marc