Off to a Great Start

 Here’s a quick rundown of what happened to us on Sunday:

- we headed out for breakfast at 8:00. We’ll be eating at the Halo Cafe for most our breakfast and dinner meals this week. A little scrambled eggs, some refried beans and plantain! 

- then we went on a little historical tour of San Vicente, which concluded with a daytime chance to climb the clocktower. 

-after lunch we headed out to meet the 12 families that will be receiving homes.  It’s always a little awkward for everyone…until the games start. Laughter and smiles breakdown language, cultural and self-consciousness. 

-we then went to meet two families that had received houses through our virtual (Nexus) teams. You can read Julia’s post below to get a sense of the impact that this experience had on her, on the family and on our team. This experience coupled together with the other family’s recognition of those from the Nexus team, reminded us all that being here, physically present is so important.  It’s meaningful beyond tangible measure! 

-dinner at Pollo Campero, a visit to Texaco, hearing the. testimony of our translator, Brandon, a team debrief and we’re getting ready to build Monday. Our day will start at 7am. Today we were reminded why what we will participate in, makes such a big difference. 

Thanks for your prayer and encouragement!

You won’t believe this…

 We have a great God. The most amazing thing happened today! We were going back to visit a few of the people we built houses for during the virtual (Nexus) missions trips. My mom has always been a great supporter of my mission trips. Two years ago she donated the equivalent of a house ($3,800). 

Mom had a picture of the family she sponsored on her wall as a reminder of how a simple home changes lives. Would you believe it?! One of the houses we visited today was “Mom’s house”!!

Words don’t describe the feeling, to be able to meet and see the house, the family and to see how they had fixed it up. 

We serve an amazing God that He would bring together a meeting like that!

Julia

2023 - We’re Back!

 After 3 full years, we are heading back to El Salvador with another team. We’ve enjoyed 2 years of Nexus (online) teams, but now the Lord has enabled us to return. There are 14 of us. 5 are new. There are 3 father-daughter pairings. We are multigenerational, intergenerational and packed with a lot of anticipation for what the Lord will show us as we enter into relationships with 12 families that will receive new homes. 

We are humbled at the generosity and encouragement of many people over the course of the last few months. May we represent you well. We are thankful for our church family and their commitment: we have several members of our leadership team and staff.  Together we are ambassadors of the SEMC, Sarnia and most of all we are ambassadors of the Kingdom of God.

We’ll do our best to keep this space updated along the way. 

Thanks for connecting with us.