The Belizean Summer Is Complete

Mission Accomplished!

Thanks to all who have been coming to this site for updates from Belize. It certainly has been a pleasure to be the middle man in relaying all that God is doing in Belize. In the coming weeks I will create a special spot for updates from Belize where you can quickly find out what's new with Alex and the Belizean ministry. If you're interested you can also stick around for personal updates from the CCI office and Zacharias family.

I talked again briefly with Alex yesterday afternoon to get a general sense of the summer. All in all things went very, very well. Of course your mind always drifts toward the things that could improve but when you consider the culture and all the curve balls that fields things when miraculously well. I'm quite optimistic with time ahead of us next year will make huge steps on the strong foundations laid after this summer.

Unfortunately the past 2 camps didn't go as well as we hoped. The last camp in Belize City offered a few challenges in staff and camper attendance. As per the culture it is easy to say "yes" to things that need to be done and then not actually follow through on your commitments. Lesson learned and things will improve in the future!

For much of the same reason the final camp in San Pedro needed to be cancelled altogether. While there is still a lot of potential for the future this year was somewhat disappointing... But again we move forward!

The cancellation meant that Alex had some time for reconnecting with previous staff which will surely go a long way in building the future of the ministry. It's not often that youth have someone show genuine interest in them like Alex does and I'm certain it speaks volumes to them.

Also, Alex finally had a little time to take a breather... hopefully there will be a little more in the future! Well done Alex! And did I hear congratulations are in order?!?

Contact!

I finally spoke with Alex (very briefly) this morning just to confirm he was safe and well. He mentioned that contact has been difficult with much of the internet service being down and many of the other internet service locations being closed due to the hurricane.

I plan to speak with him later today to get more details of the past couple weeks. We're hoping the internet will be back in service (which is much more economical than phoning) but if need be I will give him a call again - so, I should have an update posted later today or tomorrow.

Sorry, No Info

For those coming for info regarding camps in Belize... I have not been able to get a hold of Alex for a while. He's sent me a brief email that camps have wrapped up for the season and he's just seeing off the rest of the team. I hope to have some info for you all early next week.