Apps and Shirts

Well just a quick post to say that we finally sent our applications to CAM. Hopefully we'll hear back from them in about 2 weeks. And that is when we will start the t-shirt campaign!

On a side note, I believe we're settling on a design for the shirts. We're thinking of doing a blue shirt with white lettering to resemble the Honduras flag. For the text, on the front it will will say "yoEnvio" which is spanish for iSend (a play on iTunes, iPod, etc). Then on the back the possibilities are : (1) "He is no fool to give up that which he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" -Jim Elliot; (2) the Great Commission, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations...;" (3) I Cor 9:22, "I have become all things to all people;" or (4) "Sympathy is no substitute for action" -David Livingstone.

Any and all input is greatly appreciated!!

~Allie

Allie's a mastermind...

Hey guys, it's Matt.

So it's no secret that Allie's the genius and I'm just her lackey. She came up with the idea of making/selling t-shirts to raise our funds, and now she made us a blog! If I could just get her to engineer me up some supper every now and then--

We're really excited about the possibility of going to Honduras, and hope it will do a number of things. Among those is God showing us the mission He's called us to with our lives. It's our desire to be missionaries so we can bring the Gospel to yet another far reach of the world, and we hope to really get a grasp of what that's going to be like when we go to Honduras.

Please pray for us that God would let everything fall into place according to His will. Pray that we may be used effectively, that He would teach us and refine us through this process, and that He will provide our needs.

Thanks y'all,
---Matt Hays Ruzicka

Beginning the Journey

Hello to all my friends and family! This is Allie speaking. For those who may not know, Matt and I found out about a mission trip going to Honduras with CAM International (www.caminternational.org) through Breakaway Ministries at Texas A&M University. Since I heard about this trip, I've been seeking God to know if this is something He might want us doing this summer, and we both believe the answer is yes. The trip will be six weeks long beginning on May 27 and ending July 9. 

"Honduras was devasted by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, but in the years that followed, God used the catastrophe to recharge the church. Nonetheless the country remains among the most economically depressed in the Western Hemisphere. 

"Honduras is the second largest and the most mountainous of the five Central American republics. Rain forest covers 45 percent of the country. CAM Ministries are centered primarily in the cities of Tegucigalpa (capital), Siguatepeque and San Pedro Sula.

"There is a desperate need for leadership training, construction and evangelism teams, AIDS crisis intervention, microenterprise development, technology, communications and media, and ESL (English as a Second Language), to support the overall need and strategy for church growth and development." --Taken from CAM's website

To start off, we are working on finishing the application for CAM, and hopefully get accepted into the organization in about two weeks. Then begins the fund raising. The mission will cost a little over $3,000 per person including airfare. Matt and I are hoping to raise the money by selling t-shirts. So I will definately be contacting all of you about supporting our mission. 

Hopefully this will all be in full swing within the next few weeks.

Thanks for tuning in and love you all.

~Allie