Day 2

Today we visited the Davina Providentia to see where Oscar Romero is buried, his tomb in the Cathedral & the UCA to see and learn lots once again about so many people that were killed so senselessly. Even though I've seen all of those, it still hits so hard every time we visit. 

And then for the first time we saw Mayan ruins in Joya de Ceren & San Andres. How fascinating that was!

And as is always the case, I get emotional when we reach Berlin & the Pastoral House. The ladies were waiting to welcome us like always with open arms & great food. 

Our growing boys were excited to find out they could have seconds!  They'd worked up a large appetite today. 

What a great group we have & tomorrow promises more meaningful moments. 

Thanks for reading & supporting us!  And thanks especially for the prayers. 

Betty

Arrival in El Salvador

It was an early morning arriving at the airport at 4:15 AM. Dave Endriss and Dru  McLuen were there to see us off.  We got luggage and 6 foot lockers of supplies checked in. Our flights went well. Arriving in San Salvador the pilot announced there were 20 wheelchairs needed for our flight. Luckily none of us needed those. When we got off the plane there was a line up of people in wheelchairs waiting to get in the elevator. 

The electricity went out in the airport numerous times while we were using restrooms and getting luggage but we finally rounded up all our belongings and made it through customs. 

Katherine met us and got us to our bus where Alfredo our driver helped load luggage through the windows. Interesting method, but it worked!  Then we were off to San Salvador and Pupusas for lunch. yum!  We shopped the Artisan Market and everyone loaded up on treasures to take home.

Katherine took us to the memorial wall in the park where there is a mural and long lists of names of people killed in the civil war. Katherine told us a history of El Salvador and we walked and looked at names and names and more names. Such a tragedy!

Tonight we are in a lovely guest house and walked to supper of soups, chicken, fish, shrimp and even iguana.  Thanks Justin for "the night of the iguana". 😉

Karen

33 hours to go...

It's almost time for the 2015 Trinity Delegation to travel. 33 hours till 6 am on 6/18/15. We've anticipated this for months - even over a year for some of us. 

Now, it's time to do all we've talked about. It's time to see all the historical sites we've studied. It's time to visit all of our Cada de Zinc & Casa de Zacatecas families & take them the gifts that so many of you have so generously helped purchase. 

It's time for 5 veteran travels to share one of our favorite places in the world with 5 rookies. That's such a cool experience to be able to do that every time. 

We're asking for lots of prayers as we travel representing Trinity UPC, Earlham FPC, Dexter FPC, Greenfield FPC & Denison UPC. We have a lot to live up to as we venture forward.  Thanks for your faith in all of us. 

Denise Core, Betty Dyer, Maurice Dyer, Dave Kincaide, Robert Lyons, Sharon McCullough, Joe Weinman, Karen Weinman, Sam Weinman, & Justin Williams. 

Less than a month before traveling...

Stay tuned for our posts starting soon - our delegation leaves Iowa for El Salvador on Thursday, June 18, 2015.