Teams 2008

Orange Hill Team/from near Marrietta, Georgia

East Cobb Presbyterian from a suberb of Atlanta, Georgia

Killian Hills Baptist, also from a suberb of Atlanta, Georgia
Lauren and Joe Boulinger/Killian Hills Team

One of the main functions of the South America Mission Guesthouse is to host work teams that come down to Bolivia, promoting the gospel and trying to improve the life of the Bolivians they work with. During Spring Break this past year, late February and early March a team from Palm Beach Atlantic University came and worked with several local churches. In April we hosted a team from Indiana which was associated with the Evangelical Church of America. Right after this team left we fed a medical team from Oklahoma for a week, which came down with an organization known as "Mission of Hope." We generally feed teams from Mission of Hope about three times a year. In late April we hosted a small team of educational staff associated with the International Christian Schools accrediting board. They came down to evaluate our Christian school, the "Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center," and to give suggestions as to how they could improve their curriculum and better use their facilities and staff. In late May Jeff Orcutt, part of the office personnel from the mission's home office came down with a small team which stayed at the guesthouse for a few days, but whose primary focus for their visit was to help with a construction project in a small town known as Robere, and to be an encouragement to the people there. In June we hosted another team associated with the Evangelical Church of America, but this time these individuals came from Montana. They worked locally, putting on VBS's in a local church. In late June the Orange Hill team, a SAM team from Georgia came. Their primary focus was to work with the Ayore Indians and to encourage the SAM missionaries here in Santa Cruz. Just a few days after the Orange Hill team left another SAM team from Georgia arrived, this one was from East Cobb Presbyterian. This was a really large team of 29 people, 16 of which stayed at the guesthouse. Their primary focus was to do construction and painting at the Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center, but they also went out to Poze Verde and worked with the Ayore Indians for a couple of days. Two days after the East Cobb team left the Killian Hills Baptist team, also from Georgia arrived. This was a team of 18 teens and 4 sponsors. They put on a VBS's at a local church and visited local boys and girls homes, encouraging them as they established relationships. Now that our busy season is over we can set back and evaluate the past few months and praise God for all that has been accomplished. Although we have been very busy, we have been truly blessed by the teams, and encouraged by their desire to reach the people of Bolivia with the gospel of Christ. As you can see, I have a few pictures taken of some of the teams that stayed at the SAM guesthouse in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.