Since being stationed in the town of Mindo for my service portion of SST, I’ve noticed a big cultural difference between U.S. Mennonites and Ecuadorian “Mindo-nites” – pun intended 🙂 approaches to life. There’s a palpable sense of serenity and…
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Visiting Students on Service
Mar 26 2022
Nina and I keep in touch regularly with the students via phone calls and texts, but we especially enjoyed visiting students at their service internship placements throughout the last few weeks. We continue to be so grateful for the many ways that our service partners and host families receive and support students during this part of the term and share in the value and importance of intercultural relationships. Every student is having a very unique and different experience relative to one another and it is incredible to see the variety of ways that students have engaged and thrived in their new settings. There is no doubt that they will have a lot of great stories to share with each other when we all get back together for our retreat weekend in a couple of weeks!
Here are some photos of the last several weeks:
What Mindo Taught Me to See
A Day in the Life: Working on a Flower Farm
For my service, I work in Cayambe with an organization called FACE. Under FACE there are other organizations; Casa Hogar, Sumak, Centro Medico Emmanuel, and Forever Flowers. They work together to help break the cycle of abuse and neglect in…