Amelia's Mission Trip to Belize

 

This amazing 15 year old(and these two amazing 16 year olds) decided to give a week of her summer vacation to serve in Belize!  

Amelia you are amazing and you certainly Declare His Glory!

 

Our church mission team partners with an established mission group in Belize called Word at Work.  So when we send members of our church we work beside the Belizian people.  Their need dictates how our missionaries will serve, so it is different every mission trip.

This trip the need was at Lake Independence Baptist Church

 

Amelia and her group worked with the church to replace the 30 year old roof as well as run a Vacation Bible School for over 100 kids!

 

JOY!

 

Amelia was one of the music leaders of the trip and helped lead the music for the VBS!

 

This was Amelia's VBS class!

She had over 20 three to six year old children in that teeny tiny room with no air conditioning.

The adults on the trip told me Amelia was awesome and never complained once.

Amelia said it was fascinating because it was common place for a five year old to walk their three year old sibling to VBS and then home again as well.  

 

Just hanging out between jobs :)

 

Replacing the church roof.

 

The group snuck in a tubing trip through the caves the day they arrived in Belize.

 

Amelia said the whole trip was incredibly eye opening. 

 

 

This is how the girls dressed for manual labor outside to try to protect themselves from the bugs.

 

Dish duty!

 

This was Sunday and they attended church and Sunday School with the local church members.

 

Hey, what do you know?  It is humid and hot and rains a lot in Belize...feels just like home!

 

Preparing crafts for the 100 vacation bible school kids.

 

Well deserved ice cream break.

 

Goof off time :) 

 

This was how they let the neighboring town know they were going to provide VBS for the kids.  They literally went door to door and let families know, and what do you know, they had over 100 kids each day attend!  God is good!

 

The last day, they got a well deserved treat and got to go snorkeling and hang out on an island.  

When Amelia returned (after a 24 hour delay in Houston due to a tropical storm) she talked for hours about this mission trip and what it meant to her. I know Amelia was a blessing to the people of Belize but this trip blessed her immeasurably.