Team Preparation Meeting 2

Dear friends and family,

The team met again on May 15th to pray, worship, and continue our trip preparation.

We started off the meeting on Sunday with some prayer and sharing of good news. Some of us have been experiencing mountains and others, valleys in the past couple of weeks. We greatly appreciate all your prayers and support.

God has been great to us and we are over 1/2 of the way to reaching our team goal on the amount of money [$41,000] to be raised to support our project. We have some great momentum. Several us also participated in a Yard Sale the weekend of May 6 and 7 and the yard sale was a great success!

We are encouraging all to participate in an additional fundraising opportunity with Pampered Chef. You can shop from home AND help support our team in reaching our financial goal for our trip: 1) Our team will get donation of up 25% of the fundraiser's total sales. 2) The Pampered Chef will make an additional $3 contribution for each Show booked from the fundraiser. Don't forget to check out ALL new Spring/Summer products! And, if you need Father's Day gift ideas...How about: Hot Grillin' Gear For Father's Day! You can access the fundraiser at: http://www.pamperedchef.biz/iheartcooking?page=products-main&showId=3115660

After the prayer and fundraising updates, we continued with our evangelism training and watched a couple of videos that showed us more of what to expect once we arrive in Guatemala. We also worked with our EvangeCubes, a tool we will be using in Guatemala to help share the gospel.

We went over some more details about the kids' program. Until we meet again, we are scavenging for materials that we will use to decorate flip flops with the kids, one of several acitvities we have planned. We are continuing to pursue donations from retailers like Target and Walmart and have added an additional request for paper bags from WholeFoods. We need a particular size and we need a couple of hundred of them. If you shop at WholeFoods and can help us collect paper bags, we need the short square bags.

The last piece of business as usual was to pray together for our ongoing needs. Please continue to join us in praying for: *Team Unity*Team Preparation*Spiritual Warfare*Our Support Teams & Trip Funding*The Missionaries who went before us*The Missionaries who will go after us AND *The People of Guatemala.

Have a blessed day!

GMM Team