I made the decision to leave my food service job and go back in to a teaching position! Although the term is from August to August they are willing to work with me. As long as I have my hours completed I only need to stay through the end of the school year. That means over the next 10 months I will be actually teaching English while planning the curriculum for the Philippines :)
This also means that I can say the goal is to depart for the Philippines in July! That goal can only be reached with your help :) In the last month I have received a fair number of donations, but what is important is to have the monthly budget at least 75% covered with pledges and as of right now I'm only at 12%. Ten months is a gracious amount of time and the Lord can work wonderful thing so I am hopeful.
On another note, there have been so many things donated for the box to ship to the Philippines that it is overflowing!
I just finished sorting things out so the more pressing items get shipped first. I will be connecting with the local guy who sends the packages out via Chicago in the next couple of days. When I do that I will get another box and start filling it up! That box will be their Christmas presents! I know thinking about Christmas in August, but I'm doing it :) Some of the things that we didn't get for this collection include: volleyballs, basketballs, footballs, and children/adult over the counter medications (Tylenol, cough/cold, pain relief, allergy). As it is also their Christmas gift it would be nice to collect a few games and toys for the kids.
Thanks for everything!
