Costa Rica, as many have experienced, is a beautiful country. It seems to have almost everything - mountains, beaches, volcanoes, rain forests, waterfalls...and rivers. Tons of rivers. And, given the tropical climate, the flow of many of these rivers can vary from a slight trickle to devastating rapids.

As with many elements of nature, something beautiful can also be terribly destructive.

...ok, it's not me.

But after three trips to the beautiful Caribbean country in the past year, I'm starting to feel more at home each time I visit. There's still a lot that I have to learn about the culture, but I love the country and the hard-working, proud people that call themselves Haitians.

It's been a crazy fall this year. I'll try update you quickly on what has happened.

September - Haiti Trip
September was particularly busy as I helped lead a team to Léogâne, Haiti to design a medical training facility campus for the Episcopal University of Haiti (UNEPH), in patrnership with the Medical Benevolence Foundation (based in Houston).

Pastor Patrick has a natural charisma about him. Not the forced kind that makes you feel suspicious but an honest, humble desire to positively affect others' understanding of God's call for their lives. It's what has given him the drive to plant more than twenty churches across Rwanda.