Archive for February 2019
PUEBLA 2019: Hump Day At Hananeel Is Always A Tough One
Remember that GEICO commercial with the camel strolling through the office asking everybody what day it is until a lone exasperated employee finally says the magic words? You know, “Hump Day!” Wednesday is Hump Day because it’s between two sets of two workdays each. It’s the same for the annual Friendship Baptist Church (FBC) mission…
Read MorePUEBLA 2019: A Beautifully Paved Courtyard Is Taking Shape At Hananeel
Tuesday, day three, at Hananeel Baptist Church in Puebla, Mexico, is a beautiful, bright, comfortably warm day and the Friendship Baptist Church (FBC) mission team is making good things happen. Check out, for example, the progress being made in turning that construction staging area seen in Monday’s post into a beautiful, peaceful courtyard that will…
Read MorePUEBLA 2019: A Monday Journey Way Out, Including A Taste Of Cactus
Workday one in Puebla, Mexico, for our band from Friendship Baptist Church (FBC) fell on February 3, which also happens to be the national holiday celebrating adoption in 1917 of the country’s current constitution. Fireworks are a big deal in Mexico and a major battle of the revolution that lasted from 1910 to 1920 was…
Read MorePUEBLA 2019: Today We Sing, Tomorrow The Hard Work Begins
Our group of Friendship Baptist Church (FBC) men from Maryland in Puebla for the 19th consecutive year on a construction mission always join the Hananeel congregation in their Sunday service and it is invariably a memorable experience. These folks love to sing, their band members know their stuff and the congregation lets loose. It’s all…
Read MorePUEBLA 2019: There Was A Time You Couldn’t Pay Me To Do This
It wasn’t that long ago that no amount of money would have been enough to get me to do what I will do for the fourth time in five years, starting early tomorrow morning, February 2. Me and more than a dozen buddies from Friendship Baptist Church in Sykesville, Md., and thereabouts will board a…
Read MoreWould You Stake Your Life On A 1-In- 10-To-The-140th-Power Chance Of Surviving?
Mathematics, simple or otherwise, has never been my forte, but one thing I understand from those who eat, live and sleep numbers is that odds, or chance, can be measured, as in probabilities. That means the probability of the proper alignment in the right proportion under the correct environmental conditions for the creation of the…
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