Heading to El Salvador

Filed under:Family, Community — posted by Mark on May 10, 2008 @ 6:03 pm

Hailey and I will fly out early Monday morning to spend a week in El Salvador visiting sites for the work of Compassion International. I really looking forward to this trip and glad to be sharing this experience with Hailey. If you know anyone in El Salvador, please let us know. I’ve been reading various novels about the Civil war in El Salvador, most notably, Manlio Agueta’s One Day of Life. Many of our neighbors in the Mission district are political refugees from El Salvador– so I hope this trip gives me a better understanding of our neighborhood. We are bringing along 5 soccer balls and thousands of baloons and pieces of bubble gum to share with the kids we will meet at the schools and sites we will visit. While in El Salvador we will be shooting a short film we will use to raise funds for the work of Compassion International during our 36 city Church Basement Roadshow: A Roll’n Gospel Revival.
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image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace