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Tis the season!

genesisconstruction — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:40:39 +0000

Greetings!

Exciting news happening in Alajuelita these days!

Christmas season (and winds) if officially here, and with that Genesis Construction is starting to enter what, to put it in simple, unworthy terms, could be called our ¨high season¨

We just sent off a team from Parkview, Illinois that did a lot of work at the children`s feeding center but also laid most of the bases for a house for Noylin. We at CCA are very excited for that house, because the girls of that family hold a special place in the heart of many of our members and supporters. Not that we favorites or anything like that, but we have been searching for a solution for that family and are glad to finally be making some progress!

Today Larry and Carole Pribel arrive in town, and then after them we have the rest of the team from East 91st Church (except for a couple of guys who snuck in on Saturday). All in all they are about 40 people!!! While here they will do many things, one of which is, praise God, build a house for one of our aforementioned families, Doña Xiomarra del Socorro. A women truly in need of help. We are anxious to get that build underway and look forward to the blessings and challenges that God will sure put before our path on the way. Please pray for all those involved with the build and the going-on´s these coming days, as well as safety, health and provision for the impending team.

Immediately after sending off the team from East 91st, we have a team of Lutherans (or the ¨Luteranos¨ if you are Chuck) coming in to help us out with ANOTHER house! How blessed are we, and how much shall God bless the people of Jazmin this December! I have not been informed if the family for which the Lutherans will build has been confirmed, it was slated to be Maria de Lopez (See next step, pt. 2) but she has actually moved out of Jazmin, hopefully to a better area and a better life.

Hope all is well,

Merry Christmas, and God bless you all! (especially if you are reading this blog that means you are awesome!)

Soren

Another House Done!

genesisconstruction — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:41:54 +0000

Thanks to A LOT of hardwork this weekend (none of which was done by me I`m ashamed to say) and God`s provisions, the Genesis Construction team, with Larry and Carole Prible, was able to finish a wonderful yellow house for Jessy and Juan and dedicate it, Bible in hand, at Sunday`s service.

Pictures are available on flickr!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/genesisconstruction

Desayuno en Alajuelita

hoteldesierto — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:38:14 +0000

“Es tal vez el último día de mi vida.

Saludé al sol, levantando la mano derecha,

pero no lo saludé diciéndole adiós;

le hice un gesto de que me gustaba verlo antes:

nada más”

Fernando Pessoa

Accidente en puente límite entre la 15 de setiembre y Alajuelita. Falleció Alvaro Ulloa Chavarría de aprox 43 años, vecino de Concepción arriba de Alajuelita, soltero y con 2 hijos. Se presume que el accidente con un autobus de Alajuelita hacia San José fue por exceso de velocidad y adelantamientos del fallecido.
Paulo Monge, del Comite Metropolitano de Cruz Roja Costarricense dice “Un autobus colisionó contra el vehículo, el paciente es masculino de aprox. 40 años, murió prensado. El choque fue por la esquina delantera izquierda de ambos vehículos.
Fotografía por Priscilla Mora.
23-octubre-2007. 6:30 am.

Financial Education Workshop

genesisconstruction — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:16:10 +0000

This blog may be called Genesis Construction, but those who have worked with us know we try and go way beyond just construction and try and meet the needs of the community where they are. If we just build houses to satisfy our consciences but ignore other with which we could easily help, then are we really loving the community. It is sort of our motto scripture but Matthew 25, doesnt simply talk about the foreigner that was given a room, but also about the hungry who were given bread and the naked who were given clothes etc.

Anyways this all goes to say that what we are really about here is serving our community, and we were able to realize that mission in a special way this Sunday by facilitating a financial education workshop for Jazmin. There can be no doubt that the people there are poor, but it seems to us that some live worse than they need to.

Like my grandfather who tells the same jokes over and over again, many may be familiar with this story but it is highly illustrative of a common problem in Jazmin. When Maximo asked a woman, ¨does your famiy ever go hungry?¨ she replied ¨Yes, truth be told, at the end of the month, sometimes we go with out food.¨ ¨Why the end of the month?¨ asked Maximo. ¨Well, we have to pay the electricity bill and the telephone bill, and the payment for our home theater system…¨

Sometimes it is the poor financial choices that really hurt families, so it seemed to us that as a problematic area, we should try to somehow resolve it. (Of course when I say ¨we¨ I mean other smarter, more capable people than myself, I have been merely a fly on the wall for this undertaking, although I did draw up the initial budget for the snack ) Andy Valenciano (I feel like I can just say Andy by now) organized a financial education workshop, through some contacts with Habitat for Hummanity, and on Sunday we went up to the local church Lluvia Tardía to carry it out. Many thanks to Luis (who you could say was the leader of the worskshop), Andy, Marianne, the wonderful girls from City (I´ll post them names when I can remember them) and Lluvia Tardía!

Although at the beginning we were nervous when only two women shopped up at the originally slated time, eventually we actually went over our maximim capacit and had about 18 people from Jazmin at the workshop! It was great! Now we can`t really reasure the efficacy of this workshop now, but I feel confident that this was an important step in nuturing the slum and giving the people the means to liberate themselves.

Here are some pictures so you can see what it was like (it was fun!)