2020. Where do I even begin? This year really can’t even be put into words can it. Corona Virus. The first time I heard the words “Corona Virus” was when I was taking minutes in our board meeting back in March. I remember thinking, this is crazy…why are we even talking about this right now? It’s not going to be anything. Little did I know (I don’t think any of us really knew) how it would drastically change EVERYTHING in our lives. To be honest at first I thought it was gonna be a great couple of weeks to r
The past 6 months have looked very different on our campus. Back in March we had to start canceling Homes of Hope Teams, Mission Adventures Teams, and all of our spring University of the Nations schools. We all went into quarantine and life drastically changed overnight it seemed. It hasn’t been easy. It was so heartbreaking knowing there were families who had their cement slabs poured and were ready to get a house and then we had to put it all on hold. Even though there has been so many difficult things to
In May, a couple days before my birthday I ended up having to go to the emergency room. For a couple days I had a sore throat (no fever, just a very swollen/painful throat). I got some medicine from a pharmacy in Mexico and 2 days later I still wasn’t getting better. I woke up one morning and wanted to take my medicine. I tried to eat some applesauce and began to choke on it because I couldn’t swallow. I instinctively grabbed some water which shot up my nose causing a drowning feeling. It was terrifying. I