Second Annual Vida Joven 5K Fun Run   Granada welcomed Vida Joven, or Young Life, almost two years ago. This wildly successful program has demonstrated that young people here are hungry for wholesome alternatives to drugs, alcohol, gangs and life in the…

If you have ever been to a young life event in the United States, you know what a good thing it is for the kids of the community. Here in Granada, Vida Joven (young life) is a program that gives…

Surreal: having an odd dreamlike quality; unreal; fantastic   I am sitting in the hammock on the porch at El Puente in the morning – its about 7:30 am and the sky is a beautiful blue color, no clouds to…

  Agape.  I talk about love all the time. But pretty much everything I am doing boils down to it. I am reading a book called “From Spiritual Slavery to Spiritual Sonship” and it puts it like this: God is…

Last week when we went to the hospital for our usual visit, we discovered that Margarita, the lady we have visited every week for the last 2 months, had been released! (See previous Margarita blog if you want to know…

The Nursing Home. There are so many people here that just don’t have ANYONE to come visit them. They sit on their chairs or in their beds, and do not do anything all day. So sometimes when we go to…

The Garden At El Puente.   For the last 2 months we have been throwing around ideas about how to start a community garden here in Granada, at El Puente. And today we actually started work on the garden.   Each…

Here are some pictures of the ministries that many of us are involved in.   The DUMP (BASURERO) A Place of True Poverty. Where People come and fish through trash every day in order to make 2 dollars. Theres constant…

   Its Monday, and Trevor, Seth and I (along with some visitors from a church in the states) are walking through central park. We stop and buy fresca for a homeless man without any legs, and we buy ourselves some…