NICARAGUA TRIP

GREENWOOD FCA
PROJECT HOPE, NICARAGUA BUILDING TRIP

Questions:

Dan Billingsley (dan.billingsley@greenwoodk12.com)

Why Project H.O.P.E.?

  • Project H.O.P.E. Website - Click on Nicaragua, video, pictures, ministries, photos, information, etc.

  • Mission Statement: Project H.O.P.E. is an inter-denominational service organization dedicated to meeting the immediate physical needs of the impoverished people while sharing with them the Good News of Jesus Christ.

  • HOPE Central is a full functioning base camp with accommodations for travelers (separate sleeping quarters for male and females), a common meeting/devotional area, and a dining hall.

  • Multi-faceted: building communities, drilling fresh water wells, medical, dental, children, pastoral training, hospital outreach, prison, agricultural and abstinence programs and projects.

  • Safe, organized and efficient – HOPE central hosts 500 travelers a year.

Who?

  • Limited amount of participants based on the capacity of Project HOPE’s available facilities including staff chaperones, senior high students and parents.

  • Teaming up with a group from Springfield, MO, led by Jim Massey. Jim has led numerous trips to Nicaragua and will be our team leader.

When?

  • One week in June, during the AAA dead week so athletes can attend.

Daily Routine

  • Breakfast at the HOPE Central dining hall.

  • Transport to the community work site on a bus.

  • At site have community worship and small group devotional.

  • Morning work: Building project – construction alongside Nicaraguans

  • Lunch on site

  • Afternoon work: participants may choose between building project and VBS work

  • Transport back to HOPE Central.

  • Dinner

  • Worship / Discussion / Debriefing

Other Ministry Opportunities - Touring some of Project HOPE’s other ministries. Examples:

  • Orphanage

  • Women’s Transitional Ministry

  • Women’s Cancer Center

  • Men’s Transitional Ministry

  • Completed communities

  • Vacation Bible School

  • Medical Clinics

  • Friday “Free Day”:

    • Site seeing at Lake Managua

    • Visit the original community that Project HOPE constructed.

    • Tour of Furia Santa (Holy Fury) program: Garden/work site/baseball and soccer

    • Lunch in Managua at a local restaurant

    • Open air market shopping – nice area with parks, street musicians, etc.

    • Dinner

    • Return to base: decisions, perspectives, pray for each other

Total Costs

  • Max cost is $1600 per person and includes:

    • $100 towards sponsoring building two homes for Nicaraguan families.

    • Transportation to the airport and round trip flight (cheaper flights drive the cost down)

    • Cost per person to Project HOPE for accommodations and food.

    • Worksite lunches, snacks, drinks, etc.

    • Travel Insurance: Covered up to $1,000,000 with a $0 deductible.

  • Other cost: Sponsored family.

    • Participants placed into partners and assigned a family. Given information on the age, sizes, and needs of the family. Then given a tub to fill with clothing, hygiene products, toys, etc.

  • Other cost: The only other required payment will be a $10 cash immigration tax upon entering the country and your meals at the US airports. You should bring a maximum of $100 spending money for the market and souvenirs.

  • All fundraising will decrease the total amount.