Welcome to my first proper blog!
Let me tell you of an amazing story from Parish life here in our shanty of Guayaquil.
A month ago I got a phone call from a parishioner to say that we had the possibility of receiving some American youth volunteers but did we have any projects that they could do. The funding for these projects was to come from them. Did we have any projects? Of course!
So within days we got going in getting permissions, plans and putting in the first foundations.
When the American youth actually arrived they hit the ground running and very quickly they were working like trojans. Our own young people got stuck in too - and I even managed to put in a few hours hard graft (cutting bamboo posts).
After seven days hard work, we had two chapels totaly transformed: the Divino Niño chapel (which itself was transformed by Scottish volunteers last October) now has three classrooms for meetings and Catechism classes and a toilet: whereas the San Igancio chapel now has seven new bsamboo huts. Both places were landscapoed and a new fence was put round the ground.
I am totally amazed at how God sent our poor community these American volunteers who picked up the tab for their generous project. May God bless their efforts and may we here make the best use of the facilities we now enjoy!
Cheers,
Martin
