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Honduras Updates
Wake Up the Earth
WUTE 2010 Catalog (PDF)
Help send our teens to Honduras this summer by supporting
Wake Up the Earth, our Parish Party and Auction,
April 10, 2010 in the Nave and Parish Hall.
See below how you can help!
St. Mark’s sent its first youth trip to Honduras in 1989. For the past twenty years, this relationship has evolved and grown and is now a deeply rooted expression of our mission as a parish “to engage boldly in the struggles of life and care for others with love, justice, and compassion.”
Originally, under the inspired leadership of parishioners Collie and Betsy Agle, our focus arose from a companion relationship with churches along the North coast of Honduras. St. Mark’s teens built desks and benches for several public schools and performed programs of storytelling and drama for the local children. Since that time, St. Mark’s parishioners have gone to Honduras roughly every other year. Most have been teen trips but there have also been adult trips and mixed teen and adult trips. Projects have included constructing classrooms, planting trees, building homes after Hurricane Mitch, building a cemetery wall, repairing and repainting San Marcos Church and building pews for the church. In addition, every trip includes opportunities for more people-to-people connections in the non-project moments: art projects and reading in the schools, skits to dramatize the importance of dental care, field days and time hanging out at the beach or in town center with the children.
In 2007, St. Mark’s created the Trinidad Conservation Project, an effort to support an exceptional Honduran agronomist – Roy Lara – to work with families to protect fragile mountain forests. In 2008, TCP became a part of a U.S. non-governmental organization, Sustainable Harvest International and expanded to include training families in sustainable agriculture as well as reforestation. St. Mark’s and other churches are now supporting Roy and his work in five villages, as they work to improve nutrition, protect community forest and water resources, and learn a way to improve their income.
In 2010, one adult group traveled to Honduras in February and, in June, we will once more commission a group of adults and young people to carry on this work.
To provide financial support to our partner organization and to assist with scholarships, we will be having our biennial Wake Up the Earth fundraiser on April 10 featuring great food, a legendary auction and the talents of our young people.
There are many ways to be involved in this remarkable effort:
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Support our next youth trip to Honduras (Summer, 2010) by donating an item to the Wake Up the Earth auction on April 10, 2010 (link to WUTE Donation Form 2010). For additional information about the auction, please contact Tucker Harris (tucker@jacktuck.com).
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Plan to attend Wake Up the Earth on April 10, enjoying some delicious food and bidding on dozens of spectacular items from original artwork to beach houses.
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Join our Honduras Committee to guide and support our ongoing relationship with the Trinidad Conservation Project and the people of Honduras. For more information, contact Betsy and Collie Agle (betsy@agle.net; collie@agle.net), Jane Sherman (brucejane@rcn.com) or Julie Murphy (juliemurphy1@verizon.net).
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