The next week in June we hosted a team from Oregon that have made two trips a year to Helene.  During Spring Break they promote family-oriented mission trip and another, Senior Mission Trip right after their high school graduation.  Thirty folks strong arrived to do several projects, including rebuilding some footbridges on the path in a community over gulley areas from heavy rains.  A deck was begun for a shaded area during recess and there was a continuing project from last year - a lot of teams have made this happen - creating a playground for the school.  For two weeks this STM pulled weeds, raked tall, coarse grass, leveled the ground, spread loads of sand...you get the picture!  A very tedious job.  Not to mention digging the foundation for a special piece of equipment - keep following this blog!