CHIC raises over $100 Grand for Thailand!

KNOXVILLE, TN (July 17, 2009) – Students at CHIC2009 gave $109,327 to sustainable mission projects in Thailand during the event’s closing worship service Thursday evening.

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North Park raises $15000 for Fuentes Libres

Campus Pastor Judy Peterson presents Fuentes Libre with funds donated by students in chapel service

CHICAGO, IL (May 1, 2009) – The leader of a ministry that provides poor women in Oaxaca, Mexico, with microenterprise loans expressed his gratitude for $15,000 given by North Park University Ministries. Students raised $10,000 during a special chapel offering on March 25, and an anonymous donor matched $5,000.

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See video of Fuente Libres receiving the donation!

Global Partnership Survey

Dear Global Partnership Participants, leaders and advisors,

I hope you had a great time on your Global Partnership trip. As you return, suffer through jet-lag, and get busy with summer plans, it can be easy to postpone processing and reflection on your experience abroad. Don’t put off this important process. I encourage you to full out the GP survey and then spend time reflecting on the following two questions:

1. What did this trip teach me about God and the world? Where did I see God working through the partner, the culture, and our group?
2. How did God transform me through the GP trip? How does God want me to respond to what I have seen, heard, experienced and learned?

Filling out the following survey may be a good way to start the thinking, reflecting process. After that you may want to write a short essay responding to one or both of the questions above. If you would like to share your reflections with others, email me and I will post them to the blog.

If you are a Participant fill out this Survey
If you are a Leader fill out this Survey
If you are an Advisor fill out this Survey

If you would like to post a story about your trip, please email it to jstyleshastie@northpark.edu and I will post it.

Bolivia, India, and Thailand Teams Home

The Bolivia, India, and Thailand teams all returned this afternoon between 2:00 and 3:30 pm.  They have had some good experiences and some challenges on their journeys.  Welcome them home and ask lots of questions to hear their stories, they're important!

Peace be with you.

Bolivia Flying to Chicago

Here is the flight information for the Bolivia team's return.  They are all on the plane.

AMERICAN AIRLINES

1763

MIA Miami

05/26/2009 12:50 PM

ORD Chicago

05/26/2009 03:05 PM

Zambia on their way home

A message from Pastor Charles in Zambia.

Greetings

l have just come from the airport to see the students off.

We had a great time in Ndola & also in Livingstone.

 

On our way to Livingstone just before the bad road nearer to Livingstone on a curve we

almost hit into cows but Ba Rodgers our drive managed to

avoid but hit a small cow causing minor damage to our bus.

The cows should not have been crossing on that road.

 

Other than that everything went well & we communicated all the time

with the leaders.

 

Pastor Charles

Bolivia Return Trip

Brett from the Bolivia team called this morning at 8:45 am.  Their flight into Miami arrived 2 hours late, causing them to miss their 8:30 am flight to Chicago.  I spoke with American Airlines and the team is on the waiting list for flight 1763, departs at 12:50 and arrives at 3:05 in Chicago O'Hare.  She says there is a good chance they will make this flight, but you never know.  If it is too full, they will have a very good chance of making flight 467, which arrives at 4:20.  

Call the NPU GP Emergency number if you have questions about their arrival plans.  I will try to post whether or not they made flight 1763 around 1:00 this afternoon.

Blessings,

Jeremy