It has been an interesting first six months as Shelley and I began our sailing adventure around the world. We have so appreciated the hard work and great efforts of all the kind folks who have helped and supported us in so many ways... The have been some changes in the last few months as it relates to our relationship and affiliation with the congregation (The Eramosa Pastoral Charge).
The congregation is looking in new directions and feels that our work does not fit within their understanding of the rules as they relate to Canada Revenue Agencies Charitable Organizations policies. All that means is that we have dis-associated ourselves from the congregation and folks who contribute will have to do so directly to us without the benefit of a tax deductible charitable receipt.
Our whole efforts operate with way less than the $10,000 threshold that it would take for us to become our own charitable organization, so we will just carry on with some of the same people who have supported us all along....
We are still working out some of the bugs, but Shelley and I continue to be committed to our efforts and will be leaving Mexico around the end of February. We think that we will be stopping in Honduras, La Providentia, San Andreas on our way to the Pocco del Torros region of Panama in time for hurricane season in May....
Again, Thank you to everyone who has, and who continue to support us as we change a tiny bit of the lives of children in our world....
Blessings....
