Talking with Luther and his father Ileus, who was born in 1924!

Doing the dishes.

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Deacon Miguel’s house was one of the many destroyed in the earthquake ten years ago. He lives in this one room with his wife and three children.

 Deacon Miguel showing me the inside of his home, with a tarp holding water from his leaky roof. He and his wife and three children live here. Behind him is the bedroom, separated from the room we are in by a hanging sheet.

 Typical scene in this area

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The Thelusma family’s home was destroyed in the earthquake in 2010.

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The roof has holes, so water leaks onto their beds. We would like to build them a decent home.


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The Augustave family’s house collapsed in the earthquake in 2010. This is their current home.


“If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?  Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” (First letter of John, chapter 3)