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...
Alexander the Great; always headed east Twins in Thessoliniki Trigonion Tower. At the corner of the old city wall of Thessoliniki. Church in Thessoliniki Our group on the way to Philippi. In front of a 4th century BC funerary monument for a companion of Alexander the Great. River near Philippi where Paul baptized Read More...
Dinner on Santorini Oracle at Delphi--columns of temple to Apollo Learning about the role of the Oracle at Delphi Oracle at Delphi, Temple to Apollo Monastery of the Holy Trinity at Kalabaka Paul preaching to the Jews, Greeks and Romans Beria Thessoliniki
"Giassou" (Hi) from Kalambaka, Greece! We are having a wonderful time following in the footsteps of Paul. Since we've last checked in, we've seen the ancient city of Corinth, the Acropolis, have toured Athens, Mitiori, Crete, Patmos and Santorini. Some of our most awe-inspiring stops have included Ephesus and Delphi. In and Read More...
Turkish rug making Patmos Bell over Cave of St. John on Patmos Greg Lear relaxing on Patmos Windmills on Patmos Monastery of St. John on Patmos Knossos Palace near Heraklion on Crete; remains of palace build around 1700 BC Knossos Palace, Crete. Greek Orthodox Church in Heraklion Inside the church More from Read More...
Apporaching Mykonos On Mykonos Dinner on Mykonos Myknons at night Chapel in Myknons Jacqueline and Stan Cyphers Lauren Weinhold and Scott Fuller Phil and Patty Love Library at Ephasus Public toilets at Ephasus Making silk from cocoons.
More photos from Lauren (first four) and Nancy (last two). These three from the Acropolis The temple at Corinth Old temple of Athena Parthenon
Nancy Lear shares these photos from the first day of touring. Ready for the day! Tour guide Alexandra and the bus. Here we go! Canal at Corinth Corinth: Temple of Apollo from the agora (market). Acropolis of Corinth Glen preaching on Mars Hill
Photos from the first night's dinner. They all look pretty chipper for having traveled all night long!
Thirty-four people and 34 suitcases have all arrived safely in Athens, Greece! We're more than a little exhausted, but beyond thrilled to officially begin our site-seeing adventures bright and early tomorrow morning. This is a picture of our local guide, Alexandra, who will be with us for most of the trip. What Read More...
