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03.26.18
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Vanessa Puleo at Led2Serve Announces The Launch Of Their Latest Journey, Explore Costa Rica

Led2Serve, a Florida based 501(c)(3), today announced their newest Service Adventure Journey, ‘Explore Costa Rica’. This customized Journey is designed to bring travelers through several regions of beautiful Costa Rica, from rain forest to cloud forest, and the stunning Pacific beachside for an unsurpassed “travel with purpose” experience.

“Our hearts are in the regions of Costa Rica where we’ve spent almost ten years providing support to local communities. We’re excited to offer a new Journey, for the more adventurous traveler, and simultaneously strengthen our efforts of revisiting community partners, year after year,” stated Vanessa Puleo, Executive Director and Founder.

The ‘Explore Costa Rica’ Journey allows travelers to choose which regions of the country they would like to visit, based upon their groups interests. Led2Serve then creates a Journey for each group and incorporates meaningful community serve components throughout the trip for a true Service Adventure experience.

Led by the organization’s experienced bilingual guides, this exclusive Journey tours the team in private SUV’s throughout the country and combines adventure with Led2Serve’s exclusive partners. After a day of adventurous zip-lining, rappelling waterfalls or white water rafting, couples can relax and unwind at the world renown Baldi Hot Springs. A portion of this Journey provides more intimate evening dinners prepared by your travel guides in a private villa overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Whether a traveler enjoys waking up to the incredible sounds of the rainforest in a tree top hut, hiking the stunning cloud forest or scuba diving the Catalina Islands, this Journey has a little something for everyone.

About Led2Serve:
Founded in 2009 by Vanessa Puleo, Led2Serve was created to equip, inspire, and mobilize individuals and teams to serve others locally, nationally, and in regions of Costa Rica. Led2Serve’s customized Journeys provide the opportunity for team members to give of their time and talents by taking part in meaningful community projects such as building a ramp for the disabled, painting a school, teaching english and music, or participating in an environmental cleanup effort. All combined with fun, touring, and adventure in that community/city. Led2Serve coordinates all aspects of travel, from food and lodging to project materials and transportation. Led2Serve also helps to create, implement, and oversee the logistical parts of one day service projects in communities across the USA.

Vanessa Puleo
Founder Executive Director of Led2Serve 844-LED-2SRV
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11.05.17
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Vanessa Puleo at Led2Serve in Partnership with Century 21 Northshore Group Feeds Over 200 Local Families

Led2Serve, in partnership with Century 21 NS Group, announced today the successful completion of it’s 1st Annual food outreach effort. Over 200 families in need were delivered tailor-madeThanksgiving food baskets on Saturday, November 18th. This effort was spearheaded by Led2Serve and agents coordinators with Century 21. Nearly all of its 41 offices participated in some way.

 

This international effort was created by Tony Robbins and was built on a simple idea: one small act of generosity on the part of one caring person can transform the lives of hundreds. Century 21 NS Group utilized 10 of its locations throughout New England to facilitate the creation and delivery of food baskets filled to the brim with items.

 

“It’s amazing to see what can happen when a company rallies it’s people together for a great cause. This may have been their first annual event, but surely not their last!” stated Vanessa Puleo, Executive Director & Founder of Led2Serve.

 

“We are so excited at the outpouring of support for our first annual Basket Brigade. Being able to help so many families in need, especially around the holidays, was truly an honor for our entire company. We look forward to growing this tradition every year along with other ways to help those in need,” stated James D’Amico, III, CEO/President of Century 21 NS Group.

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11.02.17
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Vanessa Puleo of Led2Serve taking steps to rebuild Houston

In the days and weeks following Hurricane Harvey, St. John the Divine mobilized over 600 parishioners to serve the community and assist residents in cleanup and relief efforts. SJD has developed ongoing partnerships with other local organizations as we continue the work of disaster recovery, including World Vision, Faith Memorial Baptist Church in Houston’s Fifth Ward, and long-time partner Agape Development in the Third Ward.

 

St. John’s also recognizes the call felt by mission teams to serve in Houston. We are dedicating a portion of our facilities for dormitory use to house incoming teams from around the country who will be coming here to aid residents in their efforts to clean up and rebuild. SJD is partnering in this effort with Led2Serve, a non-profit organization which specializes in equipping, inspiring, and mobilizing mission teams. Led2Serve will offer customized Service Journeys to student and adult teams who will undertake meaningful community projects in Houston, using St. John the Divine as their ‘home base’.

 

As we prepare our facilities, mission teams are already forming. The first Led2Serve team arrived in Houston this week and are staying in a KOA campground on Lake Conroe. The 20-person team includes 12 young men from a Catholic military high school in Kansas, a single woman and a married couple and their three children from Orlando, and two brothers from Boston. Don Callender, SJD’s Mission Team Hosting Coordinator, worked with the team members from Orlando and Boston on Tuesday, painting the interior of a home that the Agape Repair Team rebuilt after it was destroyed by fire.

“We had three of the owner’s family members working with us: the niece, who did graduate work in political science at UH; her husband, who was a youth minister at Trinity Lutheran Church before retiring; and his brother-in-law who taught 8th grade history in his most recent career,” Don explained. “The mom and dad and their three kids from Orlando do a Thanksgiving trip annually, working Monday – Wednesday on a project like this, packing and serving food for those in need on Thursday morning, and then celebrating Thanksgiving together with the whole group that night. The father is an Opthalmic surgeon. One daughter is a tennis player, the other is a dancer. Their younger brother is still focused on annoying his big sisters. One of the brothers from Boston wants to be a Forest Ranger, the other is leaning toward marketing and graphic design.”

 

The team from Kansas, pictured below, is from St. John’s Military School in Salina, Kansas. The school was started by an Episcopal bishop in 1887. They spent the day working with the Agape repair team removing a roof from another house in the area.

 

 

St. John the Divine volunteers continue to serve our neighbors who were impacted by Harvey, providing pastoral care through the Shepherds program, financial assistance through the Harvey Relief Fund, and assistance with rebuilding and recovery through volunteer work teams. Our partnership with Led2Serve will extend our reach into the community through the long-term clean-up and rebuilding of our city, and help us to mobilize even more people to change lives for God in Christ.

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