HONDURAS - 1st Team Mtg Mon Jan. 01/19/09

HONDURAS - 1st Team Mtg Mon Jan. 01/19/09
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TERRY LOWE / PAM ROUSE HONDURAS MISSION TEAM
"Taking volunteers on medical/dental mission teams to Honduras"
Baptist Medical & Dental Mission International
http://www.bmdmi.org/
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CONTENTS
-> Welcome
-> Items Needed
-> 2009 Travel Dates
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WELCOME

Welcome to the Terry Lowe / Pam Rouse Honduras Mission Team! It is a joy and a pleasure to have you join us on this year’s adventure to Honduras. If you are looking for an opportunity to share God’s love through your actions while sleeping on foam mattresses on a concrete floor next to your neighbor and showering in a dark, solitary shower stall with a water bag hanging over your head, then this is one major reality check for you. You’ll grow closer to God as well as your team members in this once in a lifetime opportunity to learn that God is truly infinite as well as international. Welcome aboard!

We are excited that you could join us this year. My name is Tammy Matlock. I am the PR person who distributes weekly e-mails to the team. This helps make sure that we are all on the same page and it frees up our team leaders to focus on more important things. Terry Lowe and Pam Rouse are the co-Captains of our team (our fearless leaders). Please add the following e-mail addresses to your contact list so you can receive updates from us.

Terry Lowe, Co-Captain terrylowe@megagate.com
Pam Rouse, Co-Captain prouse111@aol.com
Tammy Matlock, PR Person tmatlock@aultmantyner.com

The most important things for you to do immediately is fill out your paperwork and get it to Pam Rouse ASAP, and start the process on obtaining your passport. The passport can take 2-3 months to get back. So that needs to be started this week. You pick up a passport form at your nearest Post Office. Fill it out. I think you have to attach a certified copy of your birth certificate. You have to get a passport photo. These can be taken at The Post Office, Wal-Green’s or Kinko’s. Then take your completed passport form, your certified birth certificate, and your passport photos, and 2 checks to the Post Office to send off. Then two to three months later, you will have your passport. Once you receive it, you will have to photocopy it and get that copy to Pam Rouse.

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ITEMS NEEDED
-> Willing Spirit to serve, no prior experience needed
-> $100 Deposit (made out to FBC and include "Honduras mission team" written on the memo line)
-> The team covenant filled out
-> The Mission Service Application filled out
-> Medical History & Medical Release filled out
-> a clean copy of your Vital Statistic Page from your passport (it must not expire within 6 months of departure!!)
-> The nurses, physicians, dentists, and any other "professionals" need to provide Pam a copy of their current annual license and their professional diploma.
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2009 TRAVEL SCHEDULE
Saturday 06/20/09 thru Saturday 06/27/09
These are the dates for this year's trip. Be aware that the day after we leave is Father's Day so you may want to make special arrangements to honor your Father before we leave.
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*****Terry Lowe / Pam Rouse Mission Team*****
Baptist Medical & Dental Mission International is a Christian, non-profit organization that spreads the gospel of Jesus Christ and serves the poor of Central America by sending out teams of volunteers on short-term mission trips as well as commissioning and sending out fulltime missionaries.
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