by International Samaritan | Dec 27, 2024 | Weekend Reflections
International Samaritan’s founders were shocked when they visited a dumpsite in Guatemala. With this shock a dream arose: to help people who were picking through trash at the dump. That mission reached us here in Villa Guadalupe. Our scholars all have the dream of...
by International Samaritan | Dec 20, 2024 | Weekend Reflections
One of the blessings of my role here at International Samaritan is to visit with our teams and scholars in all eight communities at least once each year. In these Weekend Reflections, we try to share with you what life is like in these communities and a sense of the...
by International Samaritan | Dec 13, 2024 | Weekend Reflections
In Honduras, “everyone knows how to make nacatamales,” says Ronia Romero, our program director in Tegucigalpa. And the cooking typically starts at four in the morning on Christmas Day! With an early start, the nacatamales (a mixture of meat, rice, vegetables, and...
by International Samaritan | Dec 6, 2024 | Weekend Reflections
When Christmas nears, the Jamaican Christmas cakes start appearing. “The newspaper man gets a cake, the garbage man, the neighbor, the church, the school,” said Sonja Robinson, our Program Director in Jamaica. “She makes 50 to 60 cakes!” Sonja said, about her older...
