Day 121 – I have been away from the blog for a long time
July 23, 2010
I have been away from the blog for too long - but still running. The last few months have taken me to the Philippines where God is doing amazing things from seeds of hope planted over the past two years – livelihood programs in communities of extreme poverty are being designed and implemented. What a joy to be a part of it. God is also working in El Salvador. I have just returned from a trip with 20 members of Bellaire United Methodist Church. We are working with the school in Mira Flores – the community for which I am running. We have much to do – a new building needs to be built. Land has been given. We need to buy the adjoining lot and also fund the materials. The community can contribute much of the labor. It is exciting, but we need your help. In Morazan, the plans for the community center have been drawn and we start building in January – after the rainy season. There also we will use local labor. We want to put a computer lab in the center and are looking for a company that can donate computers. We met with the Governor of Morazan who is working with community leaders to come up with a plan for economic development. We want to participate with the community in that plan – more to come on that later. For now, I am in San Francisco preparing to run the first leg of the 52 mile race of running toward hope – my first half marathon ever – I have some anxiety about whether or not I can do it – but I am going to run in hope that together we can find a way – that I will finish this race as the first leg of 52 miles and that, in the same way, we will finish the race in El Salvador – one step, one dollar, one project, one person, one community at a time – keeping our eyes on the prize – the abundance of God for all people. And so we run toward hope….
