March 13-21
Okay, keep reading! I need you all to take action! Post this to your blogs, post this to your Facebook accounts, tell everyone about it! We are taking an amazing trip to the Philippines in March! It is a VACATION WITH A PURPOSE: we are vacationing in the most amazing vacation spot ever and we are doing a side of missions as well! Camp Kivu is putting this trip on, but you do not need to be a camp family to go. I would love for it to be a trip filled with all of my friends and adoption blogging buddies if that is what it turns out to be. Andy and I have been there five times (four with the kids) and it is truly the most beautiful place on earth (and that is saying a lot because I live in Colorado).
Let me give you some more details. The trip costs $3000 but that includes EVERYTHING: room, all meals (fantastically indescribable meals), all activities and airfare from Los Angeles. Once you break that all down it is a very "cheap" vacation for an all-inclusive. We are also asking everyone to "raise" an additional $500 to donate to the mission work we will be doing. The point of that is so that as we are helping in the community of El Nido Town, we really feel like we have put something into it by personally raising the money. (Also, since Camp Kivu is "hosting" the trip, you can raise the ENTIRE COST of the trip and it can be tax deductible for the people who give you the money!!!!)
Activities: sailing, snorkling, scuba diving, sand volleyball, island hopping, rock climbing, camping on the beach, looking for sea shells or watching turtles hatch. . .the activities are so fun and they are ALL OPTIONAL--including the amount of mission work that you will be doing. OPTIONAL because it is vacation after all! You can opt to lay on the beach all day reading a book and just soaking in the scenery! OPTIONAL!
You can come alone (if you are over 16). You can come as a family (all ages welcome. . .we will be there with our FIVE kids).
All of that to say. . .please come on vacation with us! Please post this! If anyone has any questions, you can direct them to me (jamiejo@campkivu.com). I am really excited about this opportunity to go to El Nido with friends! Visit www.elnidoresorts.com if you want to see additional pictures! This truly is the best vacation ever!!!
Now GO!!! Email me with questions about how to get signed up! Blog it! Facebook it! Let's get 40 people (individuals or families) signed up this week! SO FUN!
Okay, keep reading! I need you all to take action! Post this to your blogs, post this to your Facebook accounts, tell everyone about it! We are taking an amazing trip to the Philippines in March! It is a VACATION WITH A PURPOSE: we are vacationing in the most amazing vacation spot ever and we are doing a side of missions as well! Camp Kivu is putting this trip on, but you do not need to be a camp family to go. I would love for it to be a trip filled with all of my friends and adoption blogging buddies if that is what it turns out to be. Andy and I have been there five times (four with the kids) and it is truly the most beautiful place on earth (and that is saying a lot because I live in Colorado).
Let me give you some more details. The trip costs $3000 but that includes EVERYTHING: room, all meals (fantastically indescribable meals), all activities and airfare from Los Angeles. Once you break that all down it is a very "cheap" vacation for an all-inclusive. We are also asking everyone to "raise" an additional $500 to donate to the mission work we will be doing. The point of that is so that as we are helping in the community of El Nido Town, we really feel like we have put something into it by personally raising the money. (Also, since Camp Kivu is "hosting" the trip, you can raise the ENTIRE COST of the trip and it can be tax deductible for the people who give you the money!!!!)
Activities: sailing, snorkling, scuba diving, sand volleyball, island hopping, rock climbing, camping on the beach, looking for sea shells or watching turtles hatch. . .the activities are so fun and they are ALL OPTIONAL--including the amount of mission work that you will be doing. OPTIONAL because it is vacation after all! You can opt to lay on the beach all day reading a book and just soaking in the scenery! OPTIONAL!
You can come alone (if you are over 16). You can come as a family (all ages welcome. . .we will be there with our FIVE kids).
All of that to say. . .please come on vacation with us! Please post this! If anyone has any questions, you can direct them to me (jamiejo@campkivu.com). I am really excited about this opportunity to go to El Nido with friends! Visit www.elnidoresorts.com if you want to see additional pictures! This truly is the best vacation ever!!!
Now GO!!! Email me with questions about how to get signed up! Blog it! Facebook it! Let's get 40 people (individuals or families) signed up this week! SO FUN!
Comments
I'm not sure this trip is for me, as I my heart is always drawn to Africa. But I LOVE that you are hosting a family mission trip. I so want to serve as a family.
The cost is $3000/person right? I just can't imagine coming up with $15,000 by March, of any year! I just couldn't raise funds for the trip knowing that it was a vacation as well.
But your post was encouraging! Maybe we will be able to serve others as a family. Maybe it won't be our whole family. Maybe we will have to tag-team. But there is hope!
BTW, is it $3000 per family? or per person?
The photos are stunning!!
Love ya