Monday, May 8, 2006

Frijole days of obligation 2006

About dawn tomorrow we fly out of Milwaukee for our sixth parish mission trip to Guadalupe Homes (Los Hogares de Santa Maria de Guadalupe), an orphanage in Santa Apolonia, Guatemala.

As of last year, the orphanage had completed much of the work on an improved water system. Marquette University's "Engineers Without Borders" since added supplementary solar power for it. So it's possible there will be running water almost all the time, instead of an hour or so each morning and evening.

As of last year, the orphanage had internet access, but too slow a connection for blogging. If I can't post, you can get the idea from my accounts of some of the prior trips:

May 23rd through June 2nd 2005;
May 11th through May 23rd 2004 (includes some photos);
June 10th through June 18th 2003 (includes some photos); and
July 5th through July 13th 2002

Gregg and Espe have some experience with our mission trips and their posted photos include a couple from the orphanage.

For someone else's perspective, here's Bill Corks' account of Holy Week 1994 in Guatemala.

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