We left Erie at 10am and arrived at the Father McKenna Center in DC at 6pm. Along the way we stopped to get burgers at Red Robin. After arriving in DC, we were given a tour of the facility and given some information about the week to come. Then we went shopping at the local […]
On Saturday we arrived back in Erie after two flights and meeting up with the AZ Border and Navajo Nation ABSTs! Our group was sad to leave Merida (many tears were shed the last two days) but we are excited to share our love and appreciation of Mexico with many others. Merida has shown each […]
Welcome back to our Guatemala adventure! Today is day 6 of our ABST to San Lucas. We started off our morning at 8am eating breakfast in the biblioteca. Afterwards, we traveled to our project site located in Pampojila. During our time, we carried gravel and cement mix up a hill to the house being built. […]
Today was our second day at our work sites and our 5th day here in San Lucas. We had the opportunity to celebrate Ash Wednesday after breakfast and before going to our worksites for the morning. Our group split into three seperate groups one group who worked at a house building windows and sealing block […]
Today on March 1st, 2022 our group split into two separate service groups and headed to different work sites. One location was in the process of building a house. The workers there had three people working on mixing and laying down cement for the walls and outer parts of the house. The rest of the […]
Welcome back to day 2 of our adventure in Guatemala! Today we started our day off with some oatmeal, bananas, and bread (as always) for breakfast and then we were off for a full morning of learning about the different programs within the Mission, all of which were founded by Father Greg Schaeffer. Our […]
Day 7 We started our last full day in Mexico by making 30 eggs and enjoying all our fruits we bought: pineapple, papaya, watermelon, cantaloupe, mango, and apple. Then came our COVID testers, straight to la casa. We quickly learned the Mexico swab is very different from Gannon’s. Instead of swirling around in one nostril, […]
Hello all! Today was a sad day for the group as we had to say goodbye to Tuba City, AZ and make our way down to Phoenix to stay the night before our early morning flight. It wasn’t all bad though as we had the opportunity to go to a flea market on the reservation […]
Day 6 ¡hola! Yesterday was a work day at the mission! We helped out all day with work projects at Casa Blanca. We painted the entire back walls and gazebo. Some of our group went with José to help pack toiletries for the local community. The Mission was impressed as we completed more projects than […]
We began our day by heading to the Pio Decimo Center and got there around 8:30. Once we got there, we were introduced to the services that Pio Decimo offers for young children in the community. Pio Decimo cares for and begins to educate pre-kindergarten students. They also have an after-school program for children ages […]
