by Resurrection Staff | Aug 4, 2018 | Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Disaster Response
Buenos Dias, The morning looked extremely promising as the team gathered around for their send off to the beautiful island of Puerto Rico. As they joined others on their flight their excitement could be heard by all. Unfortunately, upon their arrival in Charlotte...
by Resurrection Staff | Jun 22, 2018 | Puerto Rico, Uncategorized
Yesterday was a busy day that ran late into the evening with a delicious spread of Puerto Rican food, comida, at Mirna’s gorgeous beach-side home where we watched an unbelievable show of palm trees blowing in the salty breeze against a backdrop of orange, pink and red...
by Resurrection Staff | Jun 21, 2018 | Puerto Rico
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...
by Resurrection Staff | Jun 21, 2018 | Puerto Rico
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...
by Resurrection Staff | Jun 19, 2018 | Puerto Rico
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...
by Resurrection Staff | Jun 18, 2018 | Puerto Rico
Our day began early – for some of us, alarms went off at 4AM or earlier to meet at KCI by 5:15 – and we watched the sunrise as we waited to board our first flight to Charlotte, NC. Our team of twelve range in age from 76 to 23, men and women from different...