T minus 66 days

For this meeting I encouraged another member, Jessica Padden, to write the blog. This past Sunday our group met at Stacey’s house. As soon as everyone got settled, we got out financial updates. Half of the money was due that day. As we got our individual amounts, a few of us had some pretty cool [...]

My Hope, My Refuge

It’s amazing the things you find to do when you have papers to write and finals to study for. Like cleaning your room, alphabetizing your book shelf, or even writing a blog. This time in the semester is extremely stressful for students, and I find myself and my friends unable to even grab a cup [...]

T minus 80 days

This past Saturday our mission trip group for Guatemala went to serve at a christian rehab clinic for women. The girls sorted clothes inside that had been donated and the four of us guys did yard work. Mowing is a menial task. We started at about 9:30 and by about 11:40, 20 minutes before we [...]

T minus 97 days

Hey everyone? My name is Bryan Smith, and in 97 days I will be leaving with a group of  11 other people for the Lake Atitlan region of Guatemala. Our mission group has gotten together to meet twice now, and both times I surprisingly got something out of them. The first one was to meet [...]

Kerry’s Story from Haiti

My heart was connected to these people in such a foreign way. I couldn’t even pronounce most of their names correctly, but I loved each and every single one of them.