Since 1994, the youth group of St. James' has gone on a mission trip every summer to a workcamp at which the participants help repair homes of people who do not have the means do that on their own. In the spring of 2005, some of us started thinking about making it an international mission trip in the summer of 2006. We settled on the Abraham Project in Costa Rica as our destination in January 2006 and began planning in February. The idea grew into an intergenerational mission trip involving twenty-one travellers from our parish who came together as a team in the spring of 2006 to raise funds to make the trip possible. You can read the background and general introduction to the trip and learn about our fundraising activities here.

Pictures from the trip will be posted here soon!

Take a moment to look at the history of the community that we helped to build. (Don't worry; it's very brief!) The history page is part of the Abraham Project website. Reading this short history helps one understand how visiting groups like ours fit into the overall activities at the Abraham Project. While we were working on the Project, we were expected to exhibit a standard of behavior outlined in the covenant, which we all signed. The tasks we did fell into three areas: (1) making furniture for the daycare center and children's homes, (2) installing a sink and wall in the cafeteria kitchen, and (3) pulling nails, treating wood, sanding, and planing.