This month, we hosted two groups from North Carolina - a "Friends of" group from Clayton and the youth from Myers Park United Methodist in Charlotte. Between the two groups, we built four houses and poured three roofs...
This month, we launched a pilot of a new experience we are calling Mission Trip for All, and it was a wonderful success! During this experience, the self-named "Starfish Team #1" was able to experience all different aspects of Faith Ministry...
Church. When I say that word, I picture serenity, lovely stained glass colored light, soaring ceilings, organ and trumpet sounds, hand carved pews.......plastic chairs, dust, warm evening sunlight, guitar and ukulele, hot cement...
Flash back to 2012, the first year I went to Reynosa… We only built one house that year. The house we helped to build sat behind the family’s original plywood house, which held all five...
It is impossible to forget when your eyes are first truly opened to the world. For me, that was 2003. I was a 14-year-old living in white suburban privilege, with no knowledge of a world past the end of my block.
This #GivingTuesday, a day dedicated to the generosity of giving, we want to remind you how much your support matters. It matters to people like Julio.
In August of 2015 I created a spreadsheet of twenty two internships that I would apply to over the next few months. Many thought it was far too early...
This month, a new team of college students from the University of Texas came down to work with us, and a team from Charlotte, NC, who had already been...
When one thinks of the word oasis, we often picture a place adorned with decadent landscapes with mountains so high they take the breath out of our lungs or an ocean that reaches as far as the eye can see.
One week ago, I stood on a rocky dirt of a soccer field in the outskirts of Reynosa, México. I decided to dust off my high school soccer skills on a team of the four gringos taking a swing at playful competition with our Mexican friends and foremen.