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St. Mark student going on mission to Guatemala Susan Palmes-Dennis Correspondent
HUNTERSVILLE — The last girl standing before and after Mass recently at St. Mark Church in Huntersville braved the heat to solicit from parishioners any donation for an international mission trip she is undertaking later this month. Amanda Seyler, a junior at Lake Norman Charter School, stood with her mother by a table in front of the church with loads of information about an upcoming mission trip to Guatemala that she will be taking June 20 along with fellow students. The trip is the first international service project of its kind for the school. Seyler says she always wanted to go into a mission trip to a Spanishspeaking country. “I’ve been learning Spanish since I was about 5,” she says. She and 13 other students, a nurse and two adults will travel to rural Guatemala from June 20 to June 28 to assist 70-plus families by installing cooking stoves and water purifiers, thanks to HELPS International and ONIL poverty reduction products. With help from these organizations, teams from North Carolina have been going to remote areas of Guatemala to install stoves and water purifiers for families in need since 2009. Seyler said she is excited about the upcoming mission, as it will give her the chance to meet people from another culture different from her own. The high school student and soccer player has a 14-year-old brother and a baby sister, and the Seyler family has hosted a student from Japan in the past. “I love to learn (about) other cultures,” she says. Seyler, whose family are members of St. Mark Church, also takes seriously her Catholic faith and being a public witness to the Gospel. She participated in the March for Life from Charlotte to Washington, D.C., earlier this year, and she hopes this mission trip will broaden her perspective on helping people in need. To other people her age, Seyler says, “Be appreciative of everything that you have. A lot of other people don’t have much as we do, and I think a lot of people in my generation take things for granted. “Be open-minded to other cultures, and be always grateful.” For more info about Seyler’s group, go online to www. helpsinternational.org and www.onilstove.com.