Teams

Today our group was divided in two.  Half of us stayed at the Kings Castle campus to build a perimeter wall near the clinic.  The other half went to Mira Flores to bring laughter and food to some of the people there.  The wall building team consisted of four native El Salvadorian construction workers, a missionary from Boston named Josh, and seven All Saints workers.

Once the work commenced in earnest our team was divided again, this time according to gender.  Mary, Shannon, and Chelsea were given a bevy of tasks throughout the day.  They sifted the stones out of the sand we will use for mortar, cut rebar, bent rebar, cut tie wire, and lastly began assembling the rebar into columns.  I have been in construction for all of my adult life.  I have never before seen any female perform any of those tasks, and they rocked it.

The men were tasked with building the security wall itself.  We worked as a team to string, site, mortar and set c.m.u. blocks which were then reinforced with rebar.  The work was exhausting, yet satisfying.  Our entire team was covered in sweat, dirt, concrete, and other stains by days end.  And then it was time to dive off of the trapeze into Lake Coatepeque.

You would love serving here.