The 2017 El Salvador team is heading to the community of Getsemani this week as part of Myers Park Presbyterian’s renewed partnership with Habitat for Humanity El Salvador. Follow along all week here on the blog! Things looked great… until we got to the...
After Myers Park Presbyterian Church and the Congolese Presbyterian Church (CPC) collaborated to build Dipa dia Nzambi, the girls’ school in Kananga, the CPC through their own initiative developed Lycee Dipa, a secondary school for girls, using the same...
Be present. Notice things. Those simple guidelines from Michelle grounded us throughout the week in Cuba. Whether at a meal shared with the youth of the church in Remedios or on the bus with each other, the intent was to be present. To appreciate the moment as it...
Cuban cultural night was lit (pardon the slang, we are a group of mostly high schoolers). Our Cuban friends treated us to an evening filled with skits, food, and dancing. We learned about the peanut salespeople who seem to be on every square; the weird white fruit...
We have had so much fun so far in Cuba and have made so many memories and I know there are many more to come as we continue through our week! I was kind of nervous about the language barrier and how it would be interacting with others on this trip but it has been an...
So here we are. Cuba. It’s hard to know what to think of this place. For being so close to the mainland United States, it feels like I should know at least as much about this island as I do Canada or Mexico. My knowledge of Cuba relates primarily to a post WWII...
