Each day, we are busy doing a variety of teaching activities with the children, supporting the excellent teachers. Today included: checking students’ answers to a Pythagorean theorem word problem, playing “Simon Says”, watching our team (St Hilda’s) boys and girls from standard five (grade seven) play in a volleyball tournament, playing active games with a parachute, playing Frogger (an elimination game where the leader tries to guess who is the frog), letter writing to Fredericton children, encouraging the teachers, taking […]
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Frogger, Bananagrams, and Reading Help
Today has been filled with a variety of activities at the school. We have worked in the classrooms with students, observed classes, and worked with small groups outside on the picnic tables. Nat and Rebecca began their music ministry and games today. The younger children loved everything that Nat and Rebecca did. There was a lot of happy noise and excitement. Today, we started using the games, and they were a smashing success! Of all the excited reactions, my favorite […]
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Building Relationships
Today was all about building relationships, building new ones or renewing deep-rooted ones. Here are some photos of our time today, spent working with students and getting to know teachers and Ms. Jane.
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Same Service, Different Continent
Today, we went to the church service at St. Hilda’s Anglican Church. It was a bit surreal to go from looking at pictures of this beautiful little church to actually stepping inside it. The service was beautiful. Father David Alenskis was sincere and enthusiastic in his ministry, and his wife Mary Ann had a lovely touch on the organ. We were blessed to meet some teachers and the principal of St. Hilda’s Anglican School, Ms. Jane. After the service, we […]
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Arrived Safe and Sound
Yesterday, we were blessed with a safe and fairly easy trip down to Unionville, Belize where we are staying at the Oasis Mission Centre. Oasis is taking very good care of us. We have been impressed with the 100 homes that they have built for deserving families.
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Messages to Belize
The Cathedral Youth Group recently went skating. With the help of Brad McKnight, a slideshow video was created to carry some “snow and cold” messages to students at St. Hilda’s. https://youtu.be/XwZDfBbZXIY
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Commissioning Service
On January 21st, Kurt Schmidt led a lovely commissioning service for us, the away team, of the Belize Mission. As part of the service, the prayer partners, and other members of the congregation laid hands on and prayed over us. Having the congregation and prayer partners pray for us was a very moving experience. As one away team member said, “The commissioning service brought the whole congregation together as one body sending out the away team. It felt good to […]
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Working with the Kids
As Belize mission team members, we are excited about our upcoming adventure next week. We look forward to working with the children on their skills such as reading and math. We also look forward to collaborating with the teachers to learn how they approach different subjects and to see what types of activities they use in class. One clear difference between teaching in Canada and teaching in Belize is the role of religion in the schools. At St. Hilda’s Anglican […]
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2018 Belize Mission – 2 Minutes for Ministry
On Sunday, 14 January, 2018 Belize Mission Team Leader Beverly Morell offered the “Two Minutes for Cathedral Ministry” with a focus on the 2018 Mission. Three team preparation meetings have been held, beginning in the fall of 2017 with a last session to be on 21 January, following the Commissioning during 11:45 a.m. worship that day.
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Just Belize It! blog launches 06 January
The Belize 2018 Mission Team was looking for ways to keep the Christ Church Cathedral congregation up to date with the mission project. Team members Nat Fetter and Carol Ann Melvin have taken on the task of communication. A blog, it seemed, could to be an important part of that effort. The support of the home team and the whole congregation is a very important … Links to this site will be made available on the Cathedral Missions Committee site […]
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