Letter from the Boyds

Here is an e-mail from Jon Boyd with more information concerning the trip:

I´ll give you as much as I know at this point. We are going to be hosting a basketball camp here in Chía, which is a bed-room community of Bogotá. Bogotá has about 7 million people, while Chía has about 100,000. We´ve been working at La Iglesia Cristiana Bautista la Gracia here in Chía for two years. It´s had a lot of up-and-downs, and evangelism has been sparse because of a number of church problems in the past. Fortunately the ship has turned around and we´re starting to see love, unity, growth, etc.

The plan is that the team will work together with James Oilar, a missionary with Fellowship of Christian Athletes, on the basketball side, and our church will be in charge of the spiritual aspect and the follow-up of the kids that come to camp. You´ll be involved in a 9-12 session in the morning with one group of kids, and another from 1-4 p.m. The camp will be held in the middle of Chía. Pastor José Alonso will also be helping us throughout the week (he speaks English perfectly).

Other than that, I´m thinking that we might do one youth activity of some kind (of you guys have great ideas let me know). We´re also planning to visit two interesting sites here in Colombia (Monserrate from which you can see all of Bogotá, and the salt cathedral).

The Alonsos can host some of you, we can host others, and a Colombian family will host the rest (at least that´s the plan at this point).

Keep in touch,

Jon

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