As you read this on sunday morning, the nicaraguan mission team is heading back to houston from managua. Whether or not we will make it to kansas city from houston is a different story. But hey, beautiful, sunny and upper 80s all week? We'll hold on to that memory for awhile. The Read More...
Wednesday 26 feb 14 2100cst. gggh&s Each morning begins with a steady stream of children walking past the gggh&s in navy blue pants and white shirts. The school is one block away and we can see its gates from the terrace of the grande ballroom. School is in session — no snow day, Read More...
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...
