A number of the new students arrived last night, all of them very timid. So, to welcome them, break the ice, and loosen things up, we busted out some board games and had a great time! Jenga, Upwords (Palabras Arriba), cards, puzzles, and more. Let me tell you – it was challenging to play Upwords [...]
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16 Jul
There may not be anything more depressing than…
…filling in the meter-deep, 50-meter-long ditch that we just spent three days digging.
(for those not metric-systemly inclined, that’s roughly 3-feet-deep, 150-feet long)
Since there is a small army of us, we dug the ditch for the sewer pipes at the new residence by hand rather than spending the money on a back-hoe. Boy, was it hard [...]
16 Jul
Sifting Sand
As Armonía prepares to receive 40 new students in Oaxaca this weekend in their AIMS program, everyone is working hard to complete the new students’ residence. There are a variety of different tasks, but there is one task that never seems to end: sifting sand. In order to make good cement, the sand brought in [...]
15 Jul
New Students’ Residence
In just a few days, 40+ new students will be arriving in Oaxaca City to begin Armonía’s AIMS program, which I wrote about yesterday. In order to accommodate these students, everyone is working hard to complete the new students’ residence pictured below. The work that is left includes carpentry, painting, cabinets, bathrooms, water systems, and [...]
13 Jul
Working in Oaxaca
Last night we arrived in Oaxaca, for a full week of construction on the new students’ residence and helping to prepare the new older brothers and sisters in Armonía’s AIMS program to lead the large number of new applicants that will be arriving next week. We are very excited to meet all of these new [...]
18 May
Oppression of Indigenous Peoples
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 [...]
30 Oct
Integral Mission and Preaching
Integral mission has preaching at the center, because it is through preaching that the Word of God is heard, faith is planted by the Holy Spirit in the hearts of his people, and God’s kingdom is advanced. In chapter 17 of ¿Que es la Misión Integral? Rene Padilla laments the state of preaching in many [...]
27 Oct
Studying Hard
Below is very familiar sight here in the students residence in Oaxaca. We have been amazed by the students’ dedication to their work, their perseverance, and the way in which they help each other. We will miss them as we return to Mexico City to continue our work with Armonía there!
27 Oct
Race in Mexico
Mexico is a country riddled with problems of racism. Even though the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century marked the beginning of the mestizo, a person of mixed Spanish and indigenous decent, there are over 12 million pure indigenous people in Mexico, comprising about 12% of the total population. And these people are systematically oppressed [...]
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