28 Jul
This week a group from Twin Oaks Presbyterian Church has been helping with the summer course at Armonía’s community center in Santa Cruz. So far, it has been a week full of singing and dancing:
Sports and games of all kinds:
Serving food to the 100+ kids that come to the summer course every day:
And giving and [...]
15 Jun
For one of the students in the AIMS (Armonía Indigenous Mexican Scholars) program, his story of transformation means that he is beginning to learn how to cook fine food. Reynaldo is from a small village in Oaxaca, has been with Armonía for many years, and last Fall he entered a study program in culinary arts. [...]
27 May
At the beginning of May we were entering a time of “shut-down” of Mexico City and the Armonía ministry due to the flu outbreak.
It is now the end of May and things are back to normal.
We are thankful for many things: First, that no one in Armonía’s communities were infected with the flu (amazing – [...]
18 May
Amnesty International condemned the latest Summit of the Americas for not addressing some of the most imporant human rights abuses in the Americas, including the oppression of indigenous people groups. The following was included in their media release:
Amnesty International said that it was also deeply concerned that the Summit process excluded important voices from being [...]
16 May
Yesterday I went along with the team from Armonía to take packages of groceries to needy families in each community where Armonía works. Since things are opening up again in Mexico City, this is the last week that Armonía will be providing these emergency grocery supplies since people are now able to go back to [...]
8 May
All of these sardines will be going out to today to some of the poorest families in the Armonía communities, some of whom are still without income as a result of the swine flu and are in need of food. Please continue to pray for these families, and for their continued health and well-being.
6 May
Well, Mexico City is going to start looking more alive tomorrow. Universities will reopen as will some restaurants and other public venues. However, there are some serious precautions that these venues are required to take. In restaurants, tables must be seven feet apart, customers must fill out questionnaires about their health, and staff must wear [...]
2 May
Yesterday we unloaded and disinfected groceries, then created 106 bags to give to the 106 neediest families in the Armonía communities who don’t have enough income to put food on the table due to the shut down of basically all businesses in Mexico City. The packets included beans, rice, oil, pasta, soap, clorox, tuna, sugar, [...]
1 May
Mexico City has been shut down and will be shut down (schools, restaurants, gyms, stadiums, all non-essential businesses) for the next week at least (and most likely more). The poor in the communities in which Armonía works feel the devastating effects of this shut-down. Those who work selling food on the street or as janitors [...]
13 Apr
According to a recent report at one of our favorite Mexican news sources, thenews.com.mx, Diabetes is the no. 1 killer in Mexico today.
The article explains, “Sometimes called adult-onset diabetes, diabetes mellitus, which is a disorder characterized by high blood glucose, is almost always caused by poor diet and lack of exercise.”
This does not surprise me.
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