HI Everyone, Forgive me for not getting the blog up sooner. We had some website issues, but now have them resolved. If you want more more updates, please check out our Instagram page. The last two days the students have been working really hard, I mean really hard. We have been moving a lot of…
Today started out EARLY! as we all got up at 6:30 am to clean, pack the vans and head north to Rancho Genesis. We left shortly after 9 am. Once on site we took a tour of the amazing camp and then had lunch (it was a 2 hour drive north). Rancho Genesis provides a…
Hi Everyone, This will be the daily blog post for the upcoming June 5-11 Trip. If you are here and your student is on the June 12-18th trip, updates will be posted here as well. We hope to post every evening. Depending on the day, it could be in the late evening when we get…
Sorry for the late post…It was a long, but good day. Today was super hot here, the upper 80s, plus it was very windy this morning. With the heat and wind, the students still worked hard. We continued filling in the ditch for the piping, painted shelves, finished painting the wall around the basketball court,…
This morning was another beautiful sunrise. It was also a very hot day. Students today continued painting the tiny house and finishing it. Other students worked hard filling in a trench for the pipes that were laid on Monday that will provide water to an organic garden so the children can have some healthy vegetables.…
This morning was cold and foggy, but by breakfast, most of the fog had burned off to reveal a beautiful sunrise. After some great pancakes, sausage, and some cereal we had a guided quiet time where students spread out by themselves to journal, pray and reflect on what had been going on the last 24…
Today was an early morning for the team. But they pulled through. After pick up at the airport we made a quick stop at Starbucks before heading south across the border. Every time we cross the border is an adventure, and this day was no exception. Typically crossing in 15 passenger vans the Mexico border…
Mary was a young woman when an angel came to her. The Angel didn’t force his way but invited her, asked her for permission, to take a risk, to participate in the greatest story ever told in the history of our world. She accepted the invitation. She knew the risk that she would take of…
The Christmas story is about heaven embracing earth in all of its beauty and ugliness. It is a story of a God who comes to the earth to let us know we are not alone in this world. In fact, there is a God who is intimately involved in our lives. On this podcast, we…
I love Thanksgiving. It is one of my favorite times of the year. It brings back such great memories of my growing up years in northwest Ohio. Family, food, and football on those cold and crisp Thursday afternoons. Plus my uncles snoring on the couches watching football games. But there is something that bothers me…