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Moving In

                    Wednesday afternoon the assembly team finished building another home, this time it was the Amboyen family. Erick, Maricel and their 5 children pitched in and helped, not only build their own home but assisted in the construction of their neighbors’ homes as well. They demonstrated […]

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Back in Seattle – Safe and Sound

Just a quick report to let everyone know we made it back to U.S. soil with our bags and memories in tact.  We leave for Billings tonight at 8pm.  A very long layover considering how close we are to home.  Our connecting flights in Manila and Seoul went well but they were VERY tight.  In Manila, […]

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Gone Fishin’ & Last Goodbye’s

Today Katie, Cody, Nickolas, Sterling and I spent some time at the People’s Organization of Agape and Camayaan Aquaculture facility.  I got to meet all the people I have been corresponding with for the past year or so.  Greg explained to me how the organization works  and showed me the new expansion that they have been […]

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Sagbayan – The Epicenter

Today Mery, Laura, Cody, Nickolas, Monet, Yoyoy and I traveled to Sagbayan, the epicenter of the earthquake.  It was a startling scene.  Not because of the damage from the earthquake, but from the fact that so much of the damage is still there.  It has been 3 months since the earthquake and it looked like it […]

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Off to Tacloban

Tacloban was in the direct path the most recent typhoon to hit the Philippines. Here’s what Wikipedia had to say about this typhoon. Typhoon Haiyan, known as Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, was an exceptionally powerful tropical cyclone that devastated portions of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines, in November 8, 2013. It is the deadliest […]