Ministry with Belize
Francis Wilson and her husband Vernon are missionaries from National Episcopal Church serving in Belize. Vernon is a retired jeweler who is now teaching design and production of jewelry in the Belize prison. Francis serves as the Volunteer Coordinator for the Anglican Diocese of Belize. Last summer they took on the additional daunting task of championing the building and operation of a new primary school that opened September 2006 on Ambergris Caye.
We have adopted Holy Cross Anglican School as our mission project as part of the Belize Companion Diocesan Mission in our Southern Diocese. To learn more about Holy Cross Anglican School go to www.hcefoundation.org or read updates on their blog. A new benefit for Ambergris Caye is an Eye Mission begun through the local Lions Club who secured help from US volunteer ophthalmologists and a grant from the Retina Research Foundation.
Thanks to a UTO grant, construction is proceeding on the new, state-of-the-art composting toilet system. It will be the greenest school toilet system in the nation with 24 toilets, 10 urinals, 4 teacher bathrooms and 8 sinks - yea! Many thanks to the Episcopal Church Women and their United Thank Offering grant.
The Standard VI students have taken the first part of their Primary School Exam (PSE) - Language Arts and Science. On May 4th, they took the second part - Math and Social Studies. Please send a few extra prayers their way. Holy Cross will soon lead the nation of Belize in passing rate - a lofty goal but their prayer is for 100%!
Holy Cross is definitely an exciting place to be! Thanks to your continuing support we hope it always will be. Please take a few moments today to send your prayers and a financial contribution to the school. We are committed to providing the Feeding Program (costs $500US per day), maintaining the Computer Center (electricity for the air conditioning costs $2,000US per month), staffing the Library (salary of $400US per month!) and the thousand and one other things that seem to cost tons of money. The students of Holy Cross need YOUR help!
