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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)

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Saturday in JAMAICA!!

We are a complete team now! We had three students that flew down today with the team from MoBay and they have arrived safely in Port Maria! So we are so excited to be a whole team now!

Today we had a very yummy breakfast! We are all eating very well! They are spoiling us here- treating us like kings and queens! It's going to be really hard to come back!!

We went to a place called Tackey Falls today. It's a beautiful place and somewhat off the beaten path! We hiked about a mile down to a beautiful black sand beach that we had all to ourselves! We swam and ate our lunches- just had an all around great time! Luckily it was a little over cast so we didn't get too much sun and stayed cooler on the hike. After hiking back up we took another shorter hike down to a gorgeous waterfall! I'll try to add some pictures later tonight.
It was a great day! It was a real bonding experience for us as a team- helping each other in the hard/steep spots, talking as we walked together, etc... and now lots of fun memories!

We just ate a very good dinner! Seriously- the food is awesome! They are doing a great job of giving us some American food choices along with some new Jamaican foods to try. And there's even dessert! This is the best mission trip ever!! :)

Thanks for your prayers! Please keep them coming! We are all tired after such an active day, but it's a good tired! Everyone is doing well. We'll soon have our team meeting which we have every night. These meetings consist of one of the leaders sharing a brief teaching, worship, prayer and team sharing (about their experiences).

Tomorrow we'll split into two groups and go to church with the Jamaicans! I'll try to add more pictures! :)

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