THE GREAT EL SALVADOR WORK CAMP ADVENTURE

My wife Sheilla and I are heading to El Salvador on a Fuller Center work camp. In my many years in this work I have led a good number of major building events and I’ve welcomed hundreds of work campers to building sites, but I’ve never been on a work camp as a volunteer. Until now. Well… almost. As I’m an administrator I’ll have to spend a fair amount of time administrating. The Millard & Linda Fuller Build will be held in El Salvador the week of November 17. We’ll build 16 houses in a week, so there’s a good deal of preparation to be done.

Anyway, we’re off to El Salvador where we’ll spend Spring Break building with a group from Ascension Lutheran Church in Colorado Springs. Getting from the Springs to San Salvador is a little tricky—the cheapest flights seem to have schedules that require you to spend the night either in the Denver airport or in Atlanta. We opted for Atlanta, so here we are, nestling into our motel room, and getting excited about the week ahead.

We’ll get to San Salvador at noon tomorrow, Easter Sunday. Our project director, Trish Stoops, will pick us up for the 20 minute drive to the Fuller Center compound at Las Flores, located right on the Pacific seashore. Las Flores is close to the airport as well as our building site and just a half hour from San Salvador, making it an ideal hub for our activities.

I’ll keep jotting notes about this adventure and posting them through the week to the extent our internet access at Las Flores allows. We’re looking forward to a great adventure.