Dresses from North Carolina
This girl is wearing a beautiful dress made by our friends in North Carolina. Several members of this year's mission trip team joined us from North Carolina.
End of the week photos…
Closing service in Jinocuao Yes, the team gathered around the latrine hole and blessed it on the way out of town! This photo arrived without caption...a part for Phase 2 of the latrine project? Cashews Tres ninos While our mules were digging the latrine, the locals were making good progress on the Read More...
The ABCs of the Nicaragua Mission Trip
here are the abc’s of this year’s nicaragua mission: rancho Alpes, west of Leon, where we unwound friday night and saturday morning with a feast (or two), zip lines and…(see K). a green Band-aid on carla’s toe marks the spot where she was stung by a ray (or bitten by a crab, Read More...
Thursday Photos…
Dos amigas. One of the last patients at the clinic. Kevin Paul Lance and Ken The mules holding the stick that shows how deep the hole for the latrine needs to be. The same stick in the hole showing how far there is to go. The digging is into what is almost Read More...
Cooking, school, and more digging…
Tortillas are a staple of the Nicaraguan diet, or at least are prepared regularly for mission trip teams. In this series of photos, Carla learns to make them from one of the ladies cooking for our team. The heat source for cooking. The ladies who cook lunch and dinner for our team Read More...
Keep on coming back!
I don’t know if you have ever seen the sweaty and crabby version of me, but it isn’t pretty. I began working out with my best friend and a personal trainer this week. The entire workout I was thinking “This guy is nuts…when can I eat a cookie?” I began to think Read More...
Mid-week photos
This stationary bike provides power to pump water from the well. Progress on the latrine. Children in the village make valentines. Nancy and Graham with the children. Stephanie in the (well organized!) pharmacy. Hundreds of children's teeth have been painted with flouride. Handing out the home health kits. Gleaning for gold: Some Read More...
Shout Outs
continuing a nicaragua mission tradition, here are some shout-outs from team members from the folks at home. Read More…
Tuesday evening…
tuesday evening: we’ve been through the first two of four days of work in the village of jinocuao. it’s evening. we’ve had another outstanding dinner of beans and rice and homemade guacamole (from the oddest avocados you have ever seen.) nancy, kevin, courtney, lance, mary, stephanie, jamon (ham — it’s what james Read More...
Photos from Sunday
Part of the team spent Sunday in the village of Jinocuao working at a construction site there the first half of walls for a new school already stand. Our team will help put a roof on the building, dig a new latrine, and help haul sand from the riverbed to the worksite. Read More...
Sunday, Feb. 12
it’s hot! but it could be worse, right? it could be snowing. we left managua after breakfast today and began the long drive to the chinandega province, the town of somotillo (and hotel el puma) and the village where we are working, jinocuao (heen-yo-coo-AH-oh). we stopped in leon (we’ll come back here Read More...
Photos from the village
Scoping out the construction site in the village. The team is welcomed by the people of the village.
sunday morning, predeparture
i heard the first rooster crow at 4:40 this morning. lance assures me that it began much earlier than that. a cool breeze is blowing across the courtyard of the cepad center where we stay in managua, a sharp contrast to what we expect later today in somotillo and jinocuao. paul checked Read More...
Saturday Morning Update
good morning from row 12, economy plus, 35000 feet. don’t ask me how we ended up in economy plus (doesn’t matter one little bit…and don’t mention it to the n.c. guys or ken hubbell because they somehow ended up in back with the a rabble). (you have no idea what a difference Read More...
