Fr. Christian Mathis | June 6, 2010
Posts are few and far between this week due to our annual parish trip to NPH El Salvador. Keeping with that theme, here is a post with two of the kids. Enjoy! Once again you are invited to join me in promoting the Sabbath by taking a break from your normal blogging. Please share an [...]
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Fr. Christian Mathis | March 23, 2010
This past weekend at St. Thomas we had visitors from the NPH house in El Salvador. Yesterday a few of us were able to take our young visitors Juan Manuel and Alex over to Gatlinburg for some fun. The weather was cold and rainy so we ended up at an ice skating rink to warm [...]
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Fr. Christian Mathis | January 10, 2010
Here we are again at a Sabbath Sunday and I am sharing a post from our trip to three NPH orphanages back in September entitled NPH Update. Once again you are invited to join me in promoting the Sabbath by taking a break from your normal blogging. Please share an older post from your blog [...]
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Ashley Siferd | January 8, 2010
When I first arrived to NPH El Salvador in the summer of 2008, I had expected many things. I was told that I would be greeted by a sea of smiling faces and be swept away to play. Knowing that I was going to a Spanish-speaking country, I was prepared to understand very little because [...]
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Fr. Ron Hicks | January 7, 2010
Father William Wasson founded NPH – Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos in 1954. Currently we are caring for over 3,300 children in 9 countries including: Mexico, Honduras, Haiti, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Peru and Bolivia. Whenever anyone visits one of our homes, they usually say that they were expecting to find sad children in living in [...]
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Fr. Christian Mathis | January 6, 2010
I came across this video by simple chance this past weekend and have enjoyed watching it again and again. You might remember Edgar from my earlier post, Giving Without Fear. These two present one of the best parts of NPH, a lightheartedness that overcomes those parts of life that tend to weigh us down.
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Fr. Christian Mathis | January 5, 2010
For those of you who have not been able to make a trip down to NPH, here is a video of the typical day in the life.
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