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…
In this life, whether we realize it or not, we follow someone or something. We either follow celebrities, political figures, social media feeds, or ourselves. But we are following someone and it is important to stop and consider do we like the direction we are going. Maybe a better question, do we like the person…
This is an earlier post than usual, but tonight will be busy with dinner at a local taco shop, our last team time, and packing up to leave tomorrow. This has been a full week of service, conversations, experiences, meaning, laughter, and fun. Today we finished up the work we had planned to do with…
Today was a big Flexico Mexico day… This morning our goal was to have two concrete pours…we only had one. CDL – The students arrived at 9 am ready for the pour to begin at 9:15 am…but the truck didn’t arrive until closer to 10 am. This does happen often in Mexico. Needless to say,…
This morning we were wok up to beautiful fog over the mountains and chilly air. Later we heard thunder and it even rained a little. After breakfast and our solitude time, we headed to three work sites… La Mision – We had a big crew of students head to La Mision to finish the concrete…
Today was an early morning for the boys. They woke up and had breakfast at 7 am before heading up the hill from Carlos’ house to gather rocks to fill in for the foundation of his house. They were asked to move the rocks into large piles so a backhoe and dump truck could take…
Eleven years ago we began to dream about what could be. We began to ask “what if” questions. -“What if we were to facilitate service trips to Mexico as our full-time job?” -“What if we made a safe place for students to feel loved and accepted for who they are?” -“What would happen if students…
Be2Live is excited to announce that Shane and Amanda Burge have joined our Be2Live staff. The Burges arrived in La Mision, Mexico on May 27th after driving their family (Micah 10 and Isaiah 9) across country from Indiana arriving just in time for our next three back to back to back Mexico trips with 150…