Special thanks are given to Rev. Curry for taking these beautiful photographs.
THE MISSION:
THE MISSION:
To serve the people of Panajachel and the surrounding area by:
• Working on a home for Josefina Vicente Tojin and family
• Conducting a medical clinic
• Conducting a dental clinic
OUR TEAM:
Our mission team was made up of a variety of persons ranging from long term members, to new members, to friends and family. Some have been on many mission trips and others are venturing forth for the very first time. Most had never been to Panajachel but four were returning to continue their ministry there. We were excited to be on this journey together and asked for your prayers while they were gone.
LED BROWN has been a member of Trinity for 80 years. He is a retired dentist who
practiced for many years in Tallahassee. He is currently participating in BFC classes and
Voice for Life and regularly delivers Meals on Wheels. Led is returning to Panajachel
where he was part of a team in 2010. He is particularly looking forward to being part of
the construction team.
LOU BROWN is the daughter of Led and Oberley and has been a member of Trinity for
48 years. She is active in Voice for Life and BFC classes and also helps with Meals on
Wheels. Lou is returning to Panajachel where she was part of a team in 2010. She is
especially looking forward to working with the medical team entertaining the children
while they are waiting for treatment.
OBERLEY BROWN has been a member of Trinity for 63 years. She worked as a chemist
and taught science before retiring to raise a family. She serves on the Executive
Committee of UMW, delivers Meals on Wheels, volunteers with Hats for the Homeless
and is active in Voice for Life and BFC classes. Oberley is returning to Panajachel where
she was part of a team in 2010. She is thankful that she and her husband Led have been
given the health in their retirement to be able to be useful to others and looks forward to
working on another house.
GARY CHERRY has been a member of Trinity for 23 years. He serves on the Music
Committee, sings in the Chancel choir, is a Trinity Ringers, and plays the steel drums.
Gary is a retired real estate investor now landlord. He is returning to Panajachel having
served there in 2010. His previous experience has been a helpful resource as we have
prepared for this trip. He is looking forward to being there with the Trinity team.
WAYNE CURRY is our Senior Pastor. He has served at Trinity since 2008. Wayne has
had many previous mission experiences within the United States and has also served in
Belize, Jamaica, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. He is looking forward to being with and
working together with his Trinity sisters and brothers in the name of Christ.
NANCY DUNCAN has been a member of Trinity for 30 years. She serves with her
husband, Jimmie, as co-chair of the Spiritual Outreach Committee. She is also a
teacher at our Trinity U. M. Weekday Preschool. Her mission experience includes
youth construction mission trips to West Virginia and Tennessee, youth mission to the
homeless in Houston, adult clean up mission trip to Gulfport, MS after Katrina. She is
looking forward to experiencing a foreign mission with other adults.
GAIL FEEST has been attending Trinity for the past 2 winters. Her son Ed Young and
his wife Melissa are members of Trinity. Gail spends the rest of her time in Cape Cod.
is summer when our team met we were able to skype her into our meeting. She will
be returning to Tallahassee just in time to travel to Guatemala with us. Gail is retired
having worked in banking. Her previous mission experience was in Biloxi, MS where
she went twice with her church from Cape Cod. She is looking forward to our trip to
Guatemala and helping people who really do not have anything.
JACKIE GANTZHORN joined our team through her friendship with Frank and Barbara
Leonard. She is a registered nurse and is currently employed with Covenant Hospice
with their pediatric palliative care program. Her previous mission experience includes
six trips to the former Soviet country, Georgia as well as trips to Honduras and Costa
Rica. She assisted with construction and repairs and work with children. She is looking
forward to working with our team and Lloyd and Melanie Monroe in Panajachel.
BARBARA HYNES, our Associate Pastor of Discipleship, has been at Trinity for 18 years.
Her previous mission experience includes Mexico, Cuba, Turks and Caicos Islands,
and South Carolina where she helped build houses, held Vacation Bible Schools and
participated in the life of the community. She is looking forward to experiencing the
culture of the people of Guatemala and sharing God’s love through whatever service she
can give.
FRANK LEONARD, a member of Trinity for 10 years, is the Chairman of the Mission
Committee and the leader of our team to Guatemala. Frank serves as the Chairman
of the Criminal Justice Department at Tallahassee Community College. He claims no
previous mission experience He is excited about being able to help those who are so less
fortunate than himself.
AMY LEONARD is the niece of Frank Leonard and will be joining him and her father
Robert on our team.
ROBERT LEONARD is the brother of Frank Leonard. He is a member of Transfi guration
Catholic Church in Blythewood, SC where he served as youth minister for 21 years and
recently stepped down. He has been on mission trips to the needy in South Carolina
through an organization known as Home Works. He writes, ” I am humbled by the
opportunity to serve the poorest of the poor as well and working alongside my daughter,
Amy, brother Frank and all the other wonderful servants of God who will be on this trip.”
ANN LUMSDEN joined Trinity is 1976. She serves on several committees and teaches 4th
& 5th grade Sunday School. Ann has recently retired. She was a faculty member of the
Department of Biological Science at Florida State University for 28 years; has taught for
44 years and was part time at TCC for 35 years. She has been on two mission trips with
Trinity’s UMYF to the Bahamas in the 1980s. Guatemala was the home country of her
daughter-in-law and her family, before they moved to Atlanta. Ann wants to go there to
off er any talent that she possesses to these wonderful people.
JAYNE MITTAN has been a member at Trinity for 12 years and currently serves as the
Worship Chair and on the Health and Wellness Committee. She is a Physician Assistant
at Tallahassee Plastic Surgery Clinic; and Administrator of Tallahassee Plastic Surgery
Center. is will be the fi rst of what she hopes will be many mission trips for her. She is
looking forward to meeting the people in and around Panajachel, seeing their needs, and
meeting those needs, on their terms, with God’s guidance.
KEN MORRISON has been at Trinity for several years. He operates the sound system in
the church for the 8:30 and sometimes the 11:00 services. Ken retired after a 32 year
career as a Special Agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and now
teaches Criminal Justice classes at TCC. He has been doing mission work for more than
20 years in Costa Rica. He was ready for a change and looks forward to working with a
new group in a new country. He hopes to make new friends while helping those in need.
SANDY SKIDELL has attended Trinity for several years and recently has become a
member. She has been a physician assistant for about 19 years and has always practiced
in family practice and urgent care. Sandy has never been on a mission trip before and is
very excited! She looks forward to a spiritually rewarding experience of helping people
who are so disadvantaged and in such real need.
LUKE STEVENS has been a member of Trinity for 25+ years. He serves on the Health
and Wellness Committee. He is an orthodontist and will be heading the dental mission
where he will be practicing dentistry in a very diff erent context with very diff erent needs
from that of his practice in Tallahassee. is is his fi rst mission trip. He asks for prayers
for courage and wisdom to tackle the basic dental needs of these disadvantaged people.
VALORIE STEVENS has been a member of Trinity for 25 years. She is a member of the
Spiritual Outreach Team. At present she is a stay at home mom with her three children
Austin, Cody and Emily. She will be assisting her husband Luke in the dental mission
on this trip. is will be her fi rst mission trip. She is looking forward to being able to be
of some help to such a poor country.
Each of these individuals paid for their own expenses. Through your generosity
in giving, they were able to build a home, and take medical and dental supplies,
medications, a prayer quilt and prayer shawls.
The team asked for your prayers during the two weeks they prepared to leave and
while they were in Panajachel, Guatemala on their mission. Below are some of the
requests and concerns they asked you to particularly pray for.
• My prayer is for safe travel for all of us and that we all stay
healthy during our trip.
• I would like prayers for God to guide my heart and my
hands as we provide health care for these people in a
situation that is very much outside of my comfort zone.
• I pray that through our words and actions to the people of
Guatemala they can see what God’s love is all about.
• I would like prayers to give me guidance in my everyday
chores and activities in this country.
• I ask for prayers for a safe and spirit fi lled trip for the team and prayer for my
husband, Alan, and my mother, Margaret, during the time that I am away.
• A prayer concern for me is that new things scare me and I want to really be helpful.
• Pray for courage and wisdom to tackle the basic dental needs of these
disadvantaged people.
• Pray that we may open our hearts to those whose lives we touch and be authentic in
our care.
• Pray for all those who are making our time in Guatemala possible by caring for our
loved ones, our pets, and covering for us at work.
• Pray that the help we off er may be accepted in the spirit in which it is being off ered
and that those who are hesitant will be encouraged by the way we serve.
• Prayers for a successful mission with a positive impact on the lives of both the team
and those we serve.
• Pray for safe travels, healthy bodies and inspired souls.
• Pray for us to be useful to Porch do Salomon and Lloyd and Melanie in their venture
to build homes and minister to people in need.