by CarlyGardner | Mar 4, 2016 | Life, Sam Life, Travel Life
I am sitting here staring at my fingers stained with red clay typing and smiling because what happened today was AMAZING! We traveled over to the Haddon Farm, which is a farm owned and operated by Teen Challenge. Our mission…help. A little bit of history about this...
by CarlyGardner | Mar 2, 2016 | Life, Sam Life, Travel Life
Today was another pretty awesome day! We traveled from Kingston to Ocho Rios via our sporty rental van. The first night we arrived we learned that a Chinese company had built a new highway, which we were able to ride on today. Jamaica’s road system is quite...
by CarlyGardner | Mar 1, 2016 | Life, Sam Life, Travel Life
On day 2 let’s start with Strong hands. This morning we visited a Missionaries of the Poor home near downtown Kingston. Here are some images of the surrounding area…(photography credit: Samuel Reigner). Our mission was to visit with orphan children and...
by CarlyGardner | Feb 29, 2016 | Life, Sam Life, Travel Life
Hey everyone! Carly here…checking in…from Kingston Jamaica! I have to admit I want nothing more than to be curled up asleep right now but once I learned that I would have some wifi access on our mission trip I promised myself I would blog. Please excuse...
by CarlyGardner | Dec 22, 2015 | Life, Sam Life
Christmas truly is a miracle. I know the ultimate reason for the season and let me tell you the big guy is at work. Just had a wonderful phone call with Samuel in which I found out that he graduated from high school. That is right folks! This troubled, lost,...
by CarlyGardner | Nov 19, 2015 | Life, Sam Life
We have TEETH!!!!!! One statement I never knew I would be so excited to make! The road to get here was not easy. I feel I would be doing a disservice to not be transparent about the reality of what it is like to get here. The simple act of flying over the handle...
