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Tag Archives: north to south
Wallingford United Methodist Church visits Guarjila
by Bruce Sherman, for the Wallingford United Methodist Church publication, the Wellwisher When a group travels from Seattle to Guarjila, El Salvador, or comes from Guarjila to Seattle, we call it a delegation. Most of the delegations are from North … Continue reading
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Los grandes amores de muchos colores, me gustan a mí
Excerpts from a delegation blog by Elisabeth Grunert from Christ Episcopal Church, linked with San Andrés Itzapa Episcopal Community in Guatemala. Writing a daily or periodic blog during a delegation can be a great way to share the experience with … Continue reading
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Finding Our Shared Humanity
A reflection by a former delegate from First Lutheran Church of Duluth, partnered with San Antonio Los Ranchos in El Salvador. During my senior year of high school, I went on my second trip to visit our sister congregation in … Continue reading
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Radical Hospitality
A reflection by a former delegate from First Lutheran Church of Duluth, partnerned with San Antonio Los Ranchos in El Salvador. I did want to write a short message reflecting upon how the delegation trip in 2010 has left an … Continue reading
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Tagged delegate reflections, delegations, duluth, los ranchos, north to south, Romero
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A Bright Future in Chontalá
The following piece was written by members from Incarnation Lutheran Church that visited their sister community Chontalá in Guatemala in 2014. Originally published in the church newsletter. By Martha Rush & Candace Gruman The images of thousands of Central American … Continue reading
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Home away from home – Faith Lutheran/Journey in Faith delegation
From June 13-23, 2014, eight delegates from Faith Lutheran/Journey in Faith in North Dakota visited their sister community in Tierra Nueva I. Delegates reflected on their visit and chose words that best captured how they felt during the delegation experience. … Continue reading
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Tagged delegate reflections, delegations, Faith Lutheran, north to south, tierra nueva i, vicki
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First-time Delegate Reflects on our Newest Linkage
En español by David Ericson, US Regional Coordinator and first-time delegate in 2014 In the fall of 2013, the community of San José La Montaña (Chalatenango, El Salvador) and Trinity Episcopal Church (Newtown, CT) agreed to form Sister Parish’s newest … Continue reading
Watching the fields we tend to grow fruit
[By Walter Arreaza, former SP Staff] I have been away from Sister Parish for a number of years (most of which I have spent living in Scotland) and so to come back and re-enter the experience has made a big impact on me again… Continue reading
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