I know I’ve been promising some updates for a long time. I have a confession to make; I’m a bit of a perfectionist. I tend to want everything to fall just perfectly in line the way I want it to be. It’s not always a bad thing. It can be quite beneficial in my job […]
Filed under: El Salvador, Faith on December 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to go to El Salvador with a team from Mosaic. Our hope was to help a community of people who are drinking dirty, contaminated water. We were able to work at a school, meet lots of children and teachers, and dig a 100 foot water well that will […]
Filed under: El Salvador, Faith on November 10th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
If we were not drilling we were drinking as much water as possible, resting in the shade, or playing with the kids. Finally, once the hole was completed down to about 100 feet, we had to start putting everything else in place. First though, we had to remove the drill stem and the drill bit. […]
Filed under: El Salvador, Faith on May 31st, 2008 | No Comments »
. . . This was also a good time to change shifts so half the team could rest while the other half worked in the sun. Our team was divided into two groups. Each group had 4 drillers. There are 4 positions on the drilling rig. First up is the one operating the drill. You […]
Filed under: El Salvador, Faith on May 28th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
. . . I choose to go because these children are loved by God just as much as my own children, and they have just as much of a right to clean water as my children do. Many people have been curious about the specifics of the drilling work we were doing in El Salvador. […]
Filed under: El Salvador, Faith on May 27th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
. . .So we decided that I should go on my own; this would be a fact-finding mission for me as well as a well drilling mission. I was really excited to learn that we would be drilling a well for a school. Living Water (the organization we went with), drills wells all over the […]
Filed under: El Salvador, Faith on May 25th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Two weeks ago today, I set out on a trip to El Salvador. Myself and four other members from our church were on a mission to help the poor by drilling a clean water well for a school. I will tell you more about it, but first let me go back. We try to help […]
Filed under: El Salvador, Faith on May 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
Some Facts: The science is simple: drinking poop kills. Nobody wants to drink poop… but when water comes from a shallow well and the only place to do your business is a pit latrine, it happens. — Quoted from OneDollarWater.com 1.1 Billion very important people lack access to clean water. They drink from polluted lakes […]
Filed under: Faith on May 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
George and I just finished reading Messy Spirituality by Mike Yaconelli. Before returning it to the library this week I jotted down a few things from the section on living busy lives. Yaconelli writes, “we have no slow lanes anymore. Every lane is fast, and the only comfort our culture can offer is more lanes […]
Filed under: Faith, Thoughts on October 27th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
A very sweet and special lady from my hometown died today. She was the mother of a friend and a friend of my mother’s. It was not unexpected, but it is still hard for me to process right now. Maybe because I’m physically distanced from it. Maybe because I just haven’t had that much experience […]
Filed under: Faith, Thoughts on July 24th, 2006 | No Comments »