Youth trips abroad

When Bill Hebner who is Canadian by birth was working in St Asaph in the early days of LlCF he was keen to encourage our young people to travel to difficult parts of the world to see what life was like there. He had run such trips from Canada working with an American organisation called Amor Ministries and it was with Amor that we worked when the first such trip went in 2003 to Mexico. It was a great success as those who went were able to build a house for a needy family in Tjuana near the US border. Since then there have been further trips back to Mexico in 2004 and 2007 which enjoyed similar successes.

In 2005 and 2006 the trip was to Romania where they went to Constanta on the Black Sea, again building houses for both Mark and Violeta Waddington our links there and the needy poor people.

In 2008 from March 20th till March 31st there was a trip to Johannesburg in South Africa where they worked building 5 houses for an orphanage on the outskirts of the town. There are photos of this on the photos section of our web site and soon there will be a report on the trip too on this page. We hope to return to South Africa again in future years and then get involved in building more houses. The bright orange baseball cap those on the trip in 2008 wore said 'Building hope one house at a time' and that sums up the philosophy.

All those who have been on any of these trips come back changed both in their attitude to poverty and to each other. Also when they come home they feel good about themselves as they can clearly see the good which they have done.