DAY 4!! What a fun filled day! Writing this blog post as I sit in a 24-hour coffee shop down the street from the church, pulling an all-nighter. We have to get up at 2:30 in the morning to do our work for the day. What a great way to bond. Day four was…
We started the day at 7:00am with a filling breakfast. It’s really neat getting to eat the local food. We all LOVE the pineapple, but here are everyone’s favorite foods so far: Hayley – Besitos de Coco Audrey – chicken Chelsea – fried cheese Me (Georgia) – avocados Autumn – assorted bread Elison – fried…
After a late lunch, we headed towards the city to the main grocery store to get enough food for 20 families. Cart by cart, we formed an assembly line throughout the store and filled them up with rice, beans, tuna, olive oil, and other Dominican necessities. We then ventured 30 minutes away to a sugarcane…
Sophomore Georgia McKee is serving as the Softball Mission Trip documentarian. Here is her first entry… ________________________________________ With a 2:45am departure from Belmont and 5:30 flight, we’re up and ready for a day of travel and training! We’ve embraced the sleep deprivation and have found lots of humor out it. People at the airports have been…
Today we went to the Ronald McDonald House!! This is attached to the Rady Children’s hospital. This hospital is a very special, but sad place. This hospital houses children fighting rare diseases. Often times, this hospital can be the last resort for many families. Today, we got to partner with Ronald McDonald House and help…
What. A. Day! I feel like I’m going to say that about every day…but is 7:00 here and everyone is in their room getting ready for bed. We are pooped from traveling to say the least but are LOVING every aspect of the Dominican so far. We faced a culture shock as soon as we…
Kortney Shardt of women’s cross country and track is serving as the documentarian for this mission trip. _________________________________ Today we flew out to California to start our journey for the week!! Our lovely John Langdon and Renee SchultzSwere so kind to cram us in their cars and head to BNA!! When we touched down in…
My head and my heart cannot comprehend what an amazing week was spent in Rio. It was amazing for many reasons, some expected and some unexpected. Having been here 3 years ago, I came in with the understanding that we would be going to a lot of schools and playing with kids as well as…
The week that my team and I just spent in Rio was one of the most incredible experiences that I have ever been apart of. Our hearts were completely broken down and then reconstructed by God as we loved and served the people of Brazil. We knew going into this trip that it was going…
How do we tell others about what we experienced the past week in RIO? That is the million-dollar question! It is easy to recap the events, places, people – taking each day and telling where we were and what we did. But, what we experienced in our hearts and minds will be a bit more…