Fund raising has been productive! 

At the Wednesday Night Dinner tonight we earned $359.69. 
We already had one fund-raising dinner, but at the moment I can't recall how much we made.  We have at least one more Wednsday Night Dinner to host, too. 
St Paul's UMC has given the mission team $1,000 as an endowment gift.

These funds will all be added together and applied towards the cost of the mission trip to Brazil.  They will reduce the amount that each individual has to pay, not by much because there are 27 of us, but every little bit helps.  We may use the money to purchase Team T-shirts, to reduce the cost of vaccines, to purchase materials for children's crafts, and/or to pay part of the boat fuel bill.  There are many places where the money can be applied so that all of us can enjoy the benefit of it.

That includes the team members who are coming with us from outside of Montana.  There are six of these brave strangers who have elected to join a group of 21 mysterious Montanans on our trip to the jungle.