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Our Trip to Pampanga

September 1, 2010

The jeepney ride was just about as unremarkable as you would think, as we headed on our way towards the Cubao bus station.   Same routine, “bayad po” Katy said as she paid the driver.  We didn’t really know where the bus station was so naturally we began to ask people where we could find [...]

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Rebuilding a Street With Bayanihan

August 2, 2010

Last week, we worked together with the community in Fairview to rebuild a damaged street.  Here are some photos from the work.  You can see more at our Facebook gallery.

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This Woman’s Family Hadn’t Eaten All Day

July 29, 2010

The other night while we were sitting in the living room, a woman came to the door.  She spoke in Tagalog so I couldn’t understand most of what she said.   I did pick out the word ‘sister’ though (as in a nun).  Romy was in the other room so I called him over so [...]

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Progress in the Philippines

July 26, 2010

Praise God our flight to Manila went well.  However there were a few times when I thought that the wings of our plane was going to fall off. Smaller planes always have me feeling a tad bit apprehensive. Thankfully we were only on the DC-9 for just an hour and a half. Katy had the [...]

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