River of Thoughts

Christine Royse Niles — Changing the world one word at a time

Sponsor a Child From Dulce Refugo

Last month, a team of twenty-one people from Pathway joined the full-time missionaries at Dulce Refugio in Aguascalientes, Mexico to impact the lives of 54 kids. In addition to a lot of hard construction and maintenance work, our youth ran four days of VBS lessons and crafts, and showed these kids that while they may feel forgotten by their own culture, God has not forgotten them. Every one of the kids at Dulce Refugio is here for a reason and every one of them has a story. Jose was found as an infant and nearly died. He has had many […]

Dulce Refugio – Status Report

Now that we are home, the project manager in me wants to share a status report: Boys’ Dorm: the team helped mix and pour 33 meters of concrete support beams, and helped cut, bend, set, and tie 100 re-bar rings in preparation for the next pour. This represents support for the ceiling for almost half of the first floor. Irrigation Trenches: the youth team dug 40 meters of trenches in preparation for an irrigation system for the kids playground; not only will this give the kids a safe surface to play games and soccer, but it will also help reduce […]

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Day 10 – The Long Road Home

4:30 AM is for the birds. Actually, the birds aren’t even up at 4:30! But we were awake and beginning our long journey home. We scrambled for last minute showers and packing, finalized the huge donation piles in our dorms, and shuffled out to the vans at 5:00 for the 30-minute ride to the airport. Upon check-in, we learned that our flight from Aguascalientes to Dallas was delayed by about an hour. Thankful that we had a long layover in Dallas, we weren’t too worried about this turn of events. We settled into the little waiting area, and many of […]