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After breakfast the group separated into three sub-groups. The first consisted of Roxanne, Andrea, Vanna, Brittany, Blakely, June, and Ken; they returned to the school to finish giving the older students fluoride and deworming treatment. June, Morgan, Andrea, Roxanne, and … Read More

Although we are living large in a TRUE hacienda with real mattresses and shower heads, we managed to get a little dirty and jumped into work this first full day in Quimistan. Sam, Joey, Kathy, Jennifer, George, and Mike were … Read More

Hola! We are here. We have had a safe trip and are enjoying everything. The compound is truly amazing. Everything is really beautiful. Today we are going to be doing fluoride treatments in the school, eye exams in the clinic, … Read More

Part of the mission team going to Honduras for the first 10-day trip in July started bright and early today. Team members gathered for a 5 AM departure from Aiken, SC en route to San Pedro Sula airport and then … Read More

Adios de Honduras! Adios is one of the handful of Spanish words that every member of our team knows and uses frequently. Adiós, of course, is Spanish for “goodbye”. Literally translated, the word is the contraction of “a” (to) and … Read More

Dear children in the three and four-year-old Sunday School Class at South Aiken Pres,I understand you have been talking about the mission of building houses. Mr. Bunch told me that you have been saving your offerings since Christmas to buy … Read More

Today our work was of a different sort. Arturo started us off with a talk about the poverty in the area of Santa Clara, a village about half an hour down the highway. We then piled into two trucks and … Read More

A quick report on the building progress, and then on to the real business in Quimistan: The footers are finished at house #2 and we are ready to start building the walls. At House #1, we got the stones in … Read More

Another day of hard work in the hot sun, but progress is being made. At site #1, La Casa de Muchos Muchachos, we finally finished leveling the site and today we started digging the trenches. Although the ground is rocky … Read More

For those of you who may have doubted the wisdom of sending so many youth on this trip, doubt no more. They have proven themselves over and over again. Today was a hard work day, leveling the ground at La … Read More