trip basics

My missions trip to the Philippines is getting very close. I am planning to give updates during the trip to this blog so keep checking back over the next couple of weeks.

Here's the basic info and purpose of the trip:

A team of 25 children's pastors from around the country will meet in Seattle, WA on Monday Sept. 4 to leave for Davao City, Philippines. There we will work with Assembly of God Missionaries Darrell and Sandy Blatchley at Family Circus Ministries to launch Character Connex (a public school assembly program) in the country. The team will be doing assemblies in 37 schools, reaching over 27,000 students. We will be training the local team so that they can then continue the program once we are gone.

Family Circus currently ministers to approximately 3,500 kids each week in 6 weekend services. Through the Character Connex Program they hope to reach over 7,500 (1% of the 750,000 children in Davao) in the near future.

Character Connex is designed to build long term relationships with the schools. Our character based messages like "Kindness", "Responsibility" and more are then followed up with invitations to Family Circus. We will be leaving them with 6 complete kits for everything they would need to continue doing the assemblies; from the sound system and video projectors to props and game items.