Twelve members of the Grace Episcopal Church, Medford community will be traveling to Bogota, Columbia February 15-23 to take the next
step in establishing deep relationship and partnership with Episcopal churches
in that area. The team includes Maria
and Molly Fenn, Brenda, Jim and Ruthanne Pearson, Steve and Ellie Viggianni,
Kate Woodward, Eva Englert, Katherine and Emily Benjamin and me. The Rev. Ted Gaiser, who currently serves as
a missionary in the Diocese of Colombia, and who also served for several years
as a Deacon at Grace Church about six years ago, has helped to build this
connection and will be hosting us in Bogota.
Grace Church has been supporting Ted’s work in Colombia the last several
years. Maria Fenn is leading us on this
trip, and has done incredible work pulling everything together for us to
go.
We will be working with the Church
of the Divine Savior, which is a thriving community just outside the Bogota city
proper. The building that houses the church is also home to a few fairly new
outreach projects in their community. The projects we will help with are
building rehab, supplies and possible set-up of after school space and some
general work in the elder care service the parish is already providing. We are
hoping to build upon the work already started in this parish and continue to
work with them in the future to assure the success of these programs. This
truly is an exciting moment to grow the work and connections we have already
begun in Colombia!
I hope that you will keep our team
in your prayers while we are away. A
different team member will be blogging each day, and you will be able to read
about our journey here.
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