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Making a Difference in Belize

January 23 – February 1, 2010

Helping to build a radio station in the Toledo District of Southern Belize

As part of its community outreach program, Tumul K’in Center of Learning (a Maya residential high school) seeks to establish a self-sustaining community radio station capable of empowering community members in the Maya villages of the Toledo District, with information on their cultural identity, traditional healing, indigenous rights and other topics that will improve their lives.

St. Anne’s 2010 Belize Mission Team includes 13 St. Annians, 1 friend from Yoga class, and 2 relatives from California! These 16 hardy workers will travel to southern Belize in January to help relocate the country’s only Maya Language radio station so it can reach more Mayan villages. 

 

Learn about the project – brochures available at church or download here.  Please pray for the team, the people who will benefit from the new station, and the safety of all who will work on it.

 

YOU CAN HELP!  We are taking our strong arms and willing hearts – and we also need to take $20,000 for building materials.  Every dollar you donate will go directly to building the radio station. 

Send your tax deductible gift to St. Anne's Episcopal Church, 2035 Charlton Road, Sunfish Lake, MN 55118.  Write "Belize Mission" in the memo.

THANK YOU!! from the 2010 Belize Mission Team

 

Why Belize?  

 

In 2003, Rev. Lydia and Mark Brown's son, Daniel, survived a non-fatal drowning at Vaca Falls in Belize. A series of "coincidences" and miracles led to his survival and full recovery. The Brown family came to see Vaca Falls not as the scene of a terrible accident, but a place of divine intervention.  As a way to give back to the people of Belize who played a key role in their son's survival, they have sought opportunities to make a difference for good in this tiny, beautiful country.

 

Previous Belize Mission Trips

 

2008 - Holy Cross Anglican School

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See the photo summary

 

2009 - Holy Cross Anglican School

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See the photo summary

 

2010 - Tumul K'in Center of Learning

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See the photo summary

 

We continue to support Holy Cross Anglican School through our Millennium Development Goals Funds, providing scholarships for Holy Cross graduates to continue on to high school, and also in 2009 $1,500 for the ongoing programs at the school.

 

 

Fundraising for 2010 Mission

 

Buy a "Brick for Belize" --  The radio station will be built from cement blocks.  Your donation of any amount ($50 suggested per "brick") goes directly to the purchase of building materials.

Buy beautiful handmade jewelry from Belize.  Available Sundays at coffee hour, or by request. The silver jewelry was made by prisoners at Belize Central Prison. Other pieces, made of shells, stones, and other organic materials, by Gustavo Williams and Linda Pais, who live in western Belize near San Ignacio.

Buy Peace Coffee at St. Anne's. Fair trade. Ground or beans, regular or decaf.

Think Globally, Run Locally - Our first ever 5K run to raise money and awareness of global needs.  View the photos from the October 2009 run.