Amor is offering a new ministry opportunity for 2011…Amor Family Camp!

Amor Family Camp offers the traditional Amor Mission Trip experience with the unique opportunity to serve side-by-side with your family.  It is a week of camping, serving, and growing together.  Families from across the United States and Canada meet in San Diego to travel together across the border to serve in Mexico.

Amor Family Camp Dates:

June 18 – 25, 2011

There are several private groups that come on Amor Mission Trips as families, so Amor has taken the next step to offer Amor Family Camp to all of our mission trip participants.  Amor has put together a team of experienced Family Camp leaders to facilitate an incredible family experience.  We would love to have your family serve alongside us this year!

Don’t miss this opportunity to touch the lives of Mexican families through your service, while you impress upon your family the things that matter most to God.  You’re building more than a shelter – your family is building hope.

To register and for more details, visit www.amor.org/trips/family or call 619.662.1200 x6 to talk to Mission Services.

How many of you have attended a Catalyst Conference before?

If you have, you know that they are INCREDIBLE!  Amor used to exhibit at the Atlanta conference for years and we truly miss being there.  A couple of years ago, Catalyst started up a Catalyst West Conference and Amor Team Members have taken advantage of how close that conference is to San Diego and partake in the event.  Again, these conferences are incredible!  In 2011, Catalyst has conferences in Altanta (October 2011), Dallas (May 2011), California (March 2011), and Florida (February 2011).

If you can, go to one and see God working in those that attend…including you!

Plus, we love how Catalyst West mirrors our 2011 theme with the theme of “Take Courage”.

Check out the Catalyst conferences today, here.

I accidently left out a bunch of designers from the original announcement.  I apologize greatly!  It was my oversight.

We want to thank all of the following designers for their submissions as well!  Thank you to:

Aaron Uchikura, Andy Duong, Andy Teichrieb, Angelica Saldana, Brett Cummins, Brynne Mckeen, and Carla Golterman.

Drum roll please……The winner of the 2011 Participant T-shirt Contest is Isaiah Hwang!

2011 Participant T-shirt Design

We will be making some slight changes to the design, like the color maybe and some other things, but this is basically it.  We can’t wait to get these to production!  See more of Isaiah Hwang’s work at www.hwangdesign.com.  He is one talented guy!

Like we mentioned before, we received 50 designs total from 34 designers.  Thank you to each of your for your love, time, and effort that you put into this contest!  It was truly difficult to choose a winner.

The designers that were our runners up were, in no specific order:  Matthew Bailey, Cammi Scott, Sandy Balunis, and Heather Stempson.

We would like to thank each of our designers:  Carolyn Biemer, Cassie Zakatchenko, Debbie Franklin, Mark Baussman, Larry Cohn, Edward Lepine, Glen Rabito, Jamie Campbell, Jeff Ahlberg, Jenna Hidinger, Joel Erickson, Joel Helveston, Julia Macke, Julie Barricklow, Julie Brainard, Kayla Mele, Kelleigh Brill, Mike Flores, Mike Velichko, Nick Schrank, Noah Brainard, Rachel Heisey, Randy Hansen, Rick Saffeels, Sheila Yamanaka, Staci Mirau,  Stephanie Anflinson, and Stevie Heitzman.

*In the first announcement, I missed a bunch of designers that had submitted.  I apologize greatly.  Here are the designers I missed accidently:  Aaron Uchikura, Andy Duong, Andy Teichrieb, Angelica Saldana, Brett Cummins, Brynne Mckeen, and Carla Golterman.

Thank you again to everyone that helped us spread the word about this contest!