Ken at The Grill
As the oldest father on site, Ken Batt got the honor of running the grill and flipping nearly 150 burgers!
As the oldest father on site, Ken Batt got the honor of running the grill and flipping nearly 150 burgers!
The intensity of this trip has been surprising, at least to a newcomer like me. We worked hard, we played hard, but most importantly, we invested a lot of emotions in a very short time. And because of that, today was filled with laughter and tears. We began the day with a late breakfast and quiet time before the worship service in the upstairs rec room. Worship today was centered around praise songs and some amazing testimonies of how God has worked in the lives of the Dulce Refugio kids as well as some of our team and other volunteers […]
After a long, hot week of hard work and focus on the kids, the team at Dulce Refugio blessed us with an afternoon to decompress from the intensity of our time here. We piled into the vans and drove about two hours to Guanajuato, a historic town with strong European influences nestled in a valley between the mountains. We ate lunch, learned a bit about the town, and then walked down 275 steps to the town below. We had about four hours to explore the town before piling back into the vans and heading back to Aguascalientes for dinner. The […]

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