On Monday, May 27, Julia will order our 2019 team t-shirts. But before she does that, we need to decide on a color. Please take a look at the three colors above, and then let Julius know your vote by 12 noon on Sunday, May 26. You can vote by email to < julius.ariail@gmail.com > or by text to (229) 563-0209 or in person at the 10 a.m. service at Christ Church Valdosta on Sunday. Julius will have the color chart from our t-shirt company at church on Sunday if you would like to see the actual samples.

To see the colors we have used for the past nine years, plus enlargements of these three samples, click on this photo album on Julius' Facebook page or this PDF single-page document.

In other news, our bedroom construction project for Pirulo has been expanded to include painting the entire front of the house to which the bedroom is attached so that the color of the new bedroom section and the existing front of the building will be the same. New photographs by Leidy of the current state of the front of that house are in Julius' Facebook album here. That album also has a paint sample for the house's new color -- verde menta, or mint green. And in another item of news, our fellow missioner Fred Richter has started a fundraising program at Trinity Episcopal Church in Statesboro for additional donations to add to the overall scholarship fund. You can see his church newsletter's notice about this program in the Facebook album linked above.

A new document for your use is the list of prayer partners, available here and on the planning page.

Julius

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The planning webpage for the 2019 mission trip is online here. All information about the trip will be added to this page just as soon as it is available.

For information about Christ Church's mission work in the Dominican Republic, including a summary report and photographs from the 2018 trip, click here .