Day 1 - by Cynthia Richards & Caleb Loewen

Church at the Volcano - our view

Today was our first full day in El Salvador, and our first experience functioning as a team. We went to the village of Apastapeque, and met the 36 families that are receiving homes. This week we will split into six sub teams to complete the homes, so we split into these teams with the locals and played games to get to know them and bond as a group. It was a great experience as people from El Salvador and Canada are willing to open up with one another and share a bit about themselves. It was good to see who we are building for and with, and we look forward to completing the task set before us.

After meeting the families we went to Bacillo’s house for lunch. Bacillo is the man who manufactures the house kits. He employees a crew of local men to weld and fabricate the kits that we put together on the job site. Bacillo is always open to meeting with us and spending time together.

In the evening we had church with the local shelter team at the volcano, that is near San Vicente. We worshipped together and heard the testimony of one of our teammates, which was a good way to end the day.