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Trip Info 2010!!

UGA Wesley Foundation

Jamaica Mission Trip- March 5-13, 2010

We’re staying: Casa Maria, Port Maria, Jamaica http://www.casamariahotel.net/

(We’ll have the hotel all to ourselves for the week. Sidenote: the hotel is newly renovated and looks nothing like it did when we used to stay there! We might not want to come back home from the looks of it!)

Emergency contacts:

*Jill Henderson- Associate Director, UGA Wesley Foundation- 404.213.3341

*In Jamaica 876.725.0156 (just dial “1” and then the #, for emergencies ONLY!)

*please check the blog for team updates!

*Caren will also have a cell phone in Jamaica that we can call from if needed.

Flight Info:

Arrive @ airport 5:00AM!!!!

Fri. March 5th

South Terminal- Delta

Flight # DL 357, Atlanta to Montego Bay 8:25am- 11:27am

Sat. March 13th

Delta

Flight DL 362 Montego Bay to Atlanta 3:00pm- 6:06pm

Pick-up around 6:45-7pm, South Terminal (check websites for arrival times as they tend to change a bit this far out.)

We’ll arrive in Montego Bay and have a scenic drive to Port Maria. It’s about a 2 ½ hour drive.

Please feel free to contact us at Wesley with any questions you have!

706.353.1408

Trip Leaders:

Bob Beckwith, Caren Dilts (706.207.6862) William Draper (931.446.0448), Lindsay Duryea (404.583.1167), Mike Nakayama (478.747.1308)

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Preparing for the team...

William and I made it safely to Jamaica! We arrived Monday and spent all day Tuesday out preparing for the trip. We spent a good part of the day looking over the work sites and thinking about what all materials we would need and then got estimates for them. We tried to be smart shoppers and good stewards and got 2 estimates! :) We just placed the order and hopefully everything will be ready for us to begin work on Monday. We're praying so, anyway! Life in Jamaica is a lot less structured than in America... but we're believing God that all the details will come together!
Another large portion of our day was spent checking out a potential spot for us to spend Saturday. This year, due to the flight, we have an extra day in Jamaica! Never a bad thing! So we're trying to plan that day out well. We have another option to look at tomorrow and then we will make our decision. It's very fun to get to explore Jamaica and see parts of the country that most tourists never get to experience.
Everything has been coming together nicely. We are so excited for the team to get here and begin the work we've been preparing for, for over a year now. We are also happy to be in sunny Jamaica and not in the snow! Although today it has been raining. But it's still beautiful- even in the rain!
Today we are working on getting all the materials delivered to the correct places- pray for this! And also meeting with the staff at the Casa Maria to prepare for our rather large group!
It's hard work here in Jamaica, but somebody's got to do it, right?!
See y'all soon!!
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