Thursday, October 11, 2007 and Post Number 123!

My husband and a friend bought this this week. :)

click on the picture to blow it up.

Here's the song (audio only):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFN6Q__FQVs

P.S.

I volunteered in South America on a health project as a teenager. I had a hellish time but am impressed it was possible at all.I just found out the program's creator died last year.

Here's a comment about him:

As part of Guy's original team which met at River Oaks Baptist Church in 1964 and first arrived in Honduras in the summer of 1965, I well recall his gentle ways of getting the job done and the inspiration he gave to us to believe that we could do anything...and we did.I was only 15 years old. . .

GEORGE GUY BEVIL, JR., visionary, founder, and first Executive Director of Amigos de las Américas died October 10, 2006, in Little Rock, Arkansas at the age of 71. In the 1960s as youth minister at River Oaks Baptist Church in Houston, Bevil conceived the idea of an interdenominational service project in which teenagers volunteer their summer to address health care needs of rural Honduras. In 1965 the first group of volunteers vaccinated 571,000 people against polio, smallpox and other diseases. Amigos de las Américas was subsequently formed as a nonprofit organization, quickly expanding throughout the U.S. and Latin America. In 1965, Bevil received the "Order of the Lempira" Medal of Honor from the Honduras government, Honduras' highest civilian honor and the first time it was awarded to a North American. Bevil's legacy is his strong belief in the creativity, integrity and leadership of youth. His vision of youth leadership through service continues to positively touch people throughout the Americas.