tuesday, 25 february 14, 2145cst, gringo gardens grande hotel and spa Day two in the village. Construction work is moving along well. Our nicaraguan partners are excellent craftsmen. And they do great work without what “we” would consider the tools necessary to do such a job. Something else they do really well…baseball. Read More...
Preparing home health kits. From Carla: Little 11 year old Darwin runs up to his father asking what to do about the cow struggling to give birth. Dad hold out his hands and explains and boy runs off. Later our team joins the agriculture technician to check on cow. At attention as Read More...
sunday night, 23 february 2014. hotel nueva guinea, nueva guinea nicaragua. (please forgive me in advance: — typos, capitalization and bad spelling are par for the course.) (oh…and check out the twitter feed.) the first 14 of us arrived in nueva guinea late this afternoon. the rest of the group, all but one from north Read More...
82 degrees at 8pm in managua. And, the entire 14 member team arrived safely. Only two members were "almost" arrested by customs, but they managed to talk their way out of it...those in the legal profession often do. as we speak, we are headed to a remote village in nicaragua to help Read More...
sunday, 16 feb 14. 1715 (military time because carla and stephanie are the mission trip equivalent of drill instructors). less than 1 week until departure. stephanie is washing the “sleep pockets” that we take with us on mission trips. think king sized bed sheet, folded over, sewn together across the bottom and Read More...
We just returned to the Nehamiah center after working/livng on the farm for the past few days. This group has planted coffee and banana trees. The group has met children and shared with teenagers from Nicaragua and realized that we may speak different languages…but we all like to laugh. This group has Read More...
Waking up at 3:30 in the morning may seem tough, but it is nothing compared to a ten hour layover in the Houston airport, which is exactly what we did. The first leg of our Nicaraguan journey was characterized by walking through terminals, getting free meal vouchers, and something we deemed to Read More...
Justin, Carla and nine youth members of Country Club Christian Church met at KCI at the ridiculously early hour of 4:30 a.m. today to fly to Nicaragua. Their original schedule had them arriving in Managua around noon, but Carla just forwarded this update: "Stuck in Houston for 10 hours after missing connection. Read More...
Friday morning was the closing ceremony at Canas Blancas. It was our typical morning….coffee, breakfast, Bruce lost his bag, etc., but it was our last morning in Jinotepe. We made our last trip to the community, and there were a lot of people there waiting for us. We ran down the road past Read More...
Nancy. (How do you get out?) Carla working on the last footing. Dr. Tim and patients. Patient waiting patiently. Waiting for the doctor. Pouring the first column. Patients from another village. The final hole is complete. Danielle with balloons. It's a long way down! Frank, Luis and Harold
The last day of digging is complete. We’ve completed all 6 of the holes for the footers, and the Carolina crew’s really deep hole is complete as well. It’s funny going into the day this morning, we are all tired and sore. The tools all weigh an extra 20 lbs. You fight off the fatigue Read More...
Today was our last day in the medical clinic. We saw 82 patients in the clinic. We also had medical providers who went out and did home visits on a motorcycle and on foot. This accounted for around another 20 visits. Today I saw the most beautiful 2 year old. She looked Read More...
Work progressing on the latrine. George making progress in the latrine. Dr. Doug takes a turn. Only five more feet to go! The water tank is finished. Inspecting the fifth of six footing holes. Amigos. Rebecca, Julia (from the Netherlands) and Noa teaching an art class. Pillow case dressed made by our Read More...
We often refer to activities for these trips in one of two categories: med clinic and the hole. There are other activities that tend to be a little unsung. They are the art classes with the children and the home health kit classes. The art classes are great. The children really enjoy the art classes. Nancy Read More...
