GlobalX Venezuela Partner Development Construction 2: Work Hard, Play Hard!

What We Are All About

Trip Summary:

Our team will do construction and renovation projects for Project Jonas, a children's home ministry founded by Good News Church in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Jonas Project's mission is to rescue children who are orphaned, abandoned, or homeless. Due to poverty and parental drug addiction, the abandonment of children is a major social problem in Venezuela and other countries in central and South America. Our team will work with the staff and volunteers of Jonas Project to impact the children influenced by this ministry. Our mission begins Friday July 8th and ends Friday July 15th.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Work Hard, Play Hard!

Now that we are home and I am attempting to tell our story in a little more detail, I realized this post did not ever actually upload to the blog. Love that internet access in Venezuela!

Monday

We had a very bein dias. We got an early start, headed to the farm, and went right to work. All of the teams were rocking right along. With the boys at Project Jonas' help, we are really getting mucho accomplished. Extreme landscaping and Electrical teams really "Rocked It!" Things here are a little different than at home. We have access to tools, supplies, and most everything we need here, but it is all just different enough that we will have a little more gratitude for our "Home Depot". All of these little challenges are teaching us to be flexible, durable, and adjustable as we really mold into the BEST volunteer groupo ever!

Flat Nikki looking for flood lights at EPA

At the end of the day we had a Scavenger Hunt. Half of the sentence would be in English and the other half in Spanish. Each of the boys at the farm were paired with someone in our mission team. We had so much fun trying to figure out where the list would take us and what we were supposed to do when we got there. There were more smiles and laughs from the boys during this game, than we have seen since we got here. It was an exciting, fast, and fun bonding experience.

Next we put the new fire pit to good use. We all gathered around the pit and roasted marshmallows and made S'mores. This was a new wonderful treat and the boys really loved them.

We ended the day with a Surprise Birthday Bash for Big Nate!

The staff here at Jonas Project put together a wonderful party. We had a taco bar, an amazing cake in looks and taste, and Latin dancing. Nate as well as the rest of our group had a wonderful time and are so blessed to have such wonderful friends here to help take care of us.