All four of us joined Mark and Miriam and a small team of guys to go work on a small community center for the kids of Farallon.  The kids got an extra week out of school (Hannah jumped, Houston was a little less excited about missing so many days) and we spent 8 days there on this trip.  The Super Bowl was played the day after we arrived, and we don’t have access to any television in Farallon.  So, we tried to make it all week without learning who won the game so we could watch it when we returned a week later.  All of us gave in except Willie, but we didn’t spoil the surprise.  However, flying back the following Sunday, someone in an airport restaurant asked him what he thought about the Giants win….ARRRGHHH Read more →

We journeyed to Farallon to construct a small community center that the teachers and adults could use to work with the children in the village.  We laid a raised concrete pad–lot of hard work, and we proved just how much weight pieces of scrap plywood could support with the wheelbarrow after Read more →