2018 Puerto Rico June Team, Day 5

News Flash!  This week and our work here is not about us. Today we ended our evening with the Ignatian Prayer for Generosity: Lord, teach me to be generous: to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil...

2018 Puerto Rico June Team, Day 4

Hola!  We began our day with the call from Elisa to “encourage someone.”  Several of our lovely team members really lived this today as they worked alongside volunteers from Iglesia Metodista Samuel Culpeper, encouraging them to try the reciprocating saw, learn a new...

2018 Puerto Rico June Team, Day 3

As we traveled to the church work site from camp, we encountered quite a bit of traffic on the winding, bumpy route. Some of the traffic jams could have been from the Monday morning commute, and some of it could have been from construction, but it took us the better...

2018 Puerto Rico June Team, Day 2

Day 2, Sunday, started with the sunrise. “The Campsite”, our home away from home, consists of a few brightly painted blue concrete buildings nestled between lush hills and a sky that is impossibly filled with stars as I write. Our beds are bunks wrapped in mosquito...