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Extreme Team

 Fellowship of the Mud
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By Amy Cook
In 2013 Extreme Team, Trip Blogs
Posted November 11, 2013

Fellowship of the Mud

After experiencing a Chiapas-style roadblock on our way back to San Cristobal, we arrived at the Terrell’s happy to spend our last couple of days with them. Nothing like wrapping up a trip [...]

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 Redirected
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By Amy Cook
In 2013 Extreme Team, Trip Blogs
Posted November 6, 2013

Redirected

After some much needed rest and TLC (how do cabins in the mountains by a lake with a full rainbow sound? 🙂 ), we headed back to Comitan to work with the Mousers for the weekend. Ron and Ivonne [...]

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 R&R for the Extreme Team
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By Elizabeth Fox
In 2013 Extreme Team, Trip Blogs
Posted October 18, 2013

R&R for the Extreme Team

The team took a day to rest, recover, and do some sightseeing after their jungle trek. Since they had to cut the jungle hike short by a couple of days they have planned to join the Mousers [...]

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 It Got Exciting (and pictures!)
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By Elizabeth Fox
In 2013 Extreme Team, Trip Blogs
Posted October 17, 2013

It Got Exciting (and pictures!)

It started out this morning with hours of no movement on the team’s GPS, followed by them turning up a mile away headed in the wrong direction and not responding to messages. OK, so that [...]

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 Jungle Hike – Day 3
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By Elizabeth Fox
In 2013 Extreme Team, Trip Blogs
Posted October 17, 2013

Jungle Hike – Day 3

Here are the updates sent throughout the day from the GPS satellite device: First, they found the village that they just missed last night. Yay! Posted at 10:30 AM: You were right. The village [...]

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 Jungle Hike – Day 2 – Somewhere in the Jungle…
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By Elizabeth Fox
In 2013 Extreme Team, Trip Blogs
Posted October 16, 2013

Jungle Hike – Day 2 – Somewhere in the Jungle…

…there’s a team in need of some prayer. Here are two messages that came in this evening from Nathan Terrell: Please pray. We took a wrong turn after the guide left us. We are now in [...]

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 Jungle Hike – Day 1
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By Elizabeth Fox
In 2013 Extreme Team, Trip Blogs
Posted October 15, 2013

Jungle Hike – Day 1

Amy was able to send a quick message by satellite! (Yay for some technology in the jungle!) Here’s what she had to say, slightly decoded from all the abbreviations used to fit it into the [...]

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 Off to the Jungle!
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By Elizabeth Fox
In 2013 Extreme Team, Trip Blogs
Posted October 14, 2013

Off to the Jungle!

The team arrived safely late Saturday night, got some rest, then packed up and drove to the next major city, which will be their jumping off place for the trek. After a night at the [...]

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 Download a Prayer Reminder!
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By Elizabeth Fox
In 2013 Extreme Team, Trip Blogs
Posted October 9, 2013

Download a Prayer Reminder!

Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could be reminded to pray for the Remote Jungle Team every time you turned on your phone? Well, you can! Download the the very cool Indiana Jones-ish looking [...]

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By Elizabeth Fox
In 2013 Extreme Team, Trip Blogs
Posted October 8, 2013

Pre-Trip Prayer Request

The team is finishing up their final mission trip prep before they leave for Chiapas on Saturday. Amy even tweeted that she had run her last pre-trip errand! (Ummm… we’ll see if she [...]

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