Hey all,
I'm heading down to Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 22nd to help work with a pair of missionaries down there. There is a team from my church going (6 of us). We're going to be doing a bunch of work down there (we're still not sure of everything yet), but the big part that I'll be doing is filming and taking photos to bring back and hopefully get more people to go down and help out in Buenos Aires. Otherwise, I'm grunt labor for whatever they need.

Right now, we just bought plane tickets and are making sure we have all of our paper work together for the trip (passports, visas, . As it stands right now, the cost for each of us going is $2000. Yes, I know, many of us Scion owners are poor, so here's the deal.

If you can, you can help us out in a big way.
First, please pray for us! There is still a lot that can go wrong or change between now and when we leave and while we are down there and on the way back. So, prayer would be really appreciated. And if you're not a prayin' kind of person, that's cool too, not gonna knock you for that. If you can do that, I owe you a huge hug.

Second, if you can support me monetarily, and you want to know where to send that, send it to my church -

Alliance Bible Church
W380 N6931 State Road 67
Oconomowoc, WI 53066

PLEASE note if you do send money that is it for the Buenos Aires Trip - Erik Helgestad on it. That way they know what the funds are for, and then also if you send it to the church, you are then able to claim it as a donation on your taxes. If you are able to donate money to this, I will owe you a uber-huge hug.

Like I said, I know Scion guys and and gals may not have a lot of money, but hey, I will gladly take any support you can give me! And if you have any questions, please, let me know!

Thanks all!

 

good luck and have fun down there. friend of mine was or may even still be down there (some friend huh).

 

Yea, hopefully we'll have some time to check things out while I'm down there. Only suck-tastic part of the whole thing is there are no carry ons allowed and only 1 stowed luggage. Atleast according to Delta.

 

Oh yea, I almost forgot.
If you don't feel like mailing something, and don't care about the tax discount, you can also go to my blog and PayPal it.
http://mainfr4me.blogspot.com/2007/0...-traveler.html

 

it'll be more enjoyable if you drove down there

 

have fun!

 

I would love to drive. It's a 20 hour flight as it is, so I think to make it down in time I'd have to leave tomorrow. :D

 

Just wanted to let you all know, I'm back, and the trip was awesome. Thank you for everyone's support!

As soon as I have them available, I'll be posting up pictures and video from the work we did down there. I have about 3000 photos and 12 hours of video to go through so it will be about a week before I have it up.

Thanks again!

 

Welcome back man.

 

Alright, I finally have all the photos uploaded. Here's the link:

http://www.flickr.com/gp/50435419@N00/nNNo1c


Of interest to this group might be the photos from Modena Design. The place was awesome.

 

i only looked through a few but very nice

in somewhat related news, i need to go to colombia soon and visit fam. its been way to long