The Team Arrives in Haiti
The team has arrived savely in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Today they head to Conespeh.
Glen Shares Pre-Trip Thoughts
I've never been to Haiti before. I'm not sure what to expect. The images on the evening news after the earthquake were frightening, to say the least. The needs are mind boggling. So, I wonder, will my tiny contribution make a difference? Will I be helping or (unintentionally) hurting, by showing up Read More...
Haiti Mission Team
Prayers are with our Haiti Mission team as it prepared to depart this week. Here, members of the team were commissioned for service during worship on Oct. 21. They are,Carty Johannsen, Kara Erickson, Mary Landis, Maria Hedrick, George Gordon, Suzanne Gordon, Shirley Hansell, Linda Rives and Glen Miles. Also going but not Read More...
Pre-Departure – Haiti Here We Come!
We're just two days away from our (very early!) departure for Haiti. It is a first for us in many ways: our congregation's first trip to Haiti, each team member's first trip there, a first mission trip for some, and my first time as lay leader. With these firsts come a variety Read More...
Over 120,000 Volunteers So Far
I was truly stunned when I drove into Joplin Sunday afternoon. There is a big gapping whole in the center of the city where 7500 homes were destroyed. The land is unbelievably flat because all the trees are gone. So you can see for miles – all the way across town to Read More...
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...
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...
