SHIP’s WHY: What keeps us working in El Salvador

Here at SHIP, we’re entering our 20th year of working in El Salvador. Twenty years is a long time. In that time we’ve built and repaired homes, started a school, taught women to sew, served so many meals at our outreach services, prayed with and for our neighbors, and seen the goodness of God each day.

Again, twenty years is a long time. What keeps us doing this work? What keeps us going back to El Salvador? The best answer is the picture above. That little guy, one of the new students at our school, praying before school starts. We keep doing this work, going back and forth between Texas and El Salvador because of him. That little boy comes to our school and learns about the God who loves him. He has teachers who love him and treat him with respect and model Godly character for him to see. When that little guy goes home, he takes those lessons with him.

We love that our students–from our university students to our littlest Kinder-4 students–can share lessons of faith wherever they go. Maybe they’re coming to us from a family that doesn’t practice a faith or have parents who are curious about faith but haven’t known what to do with all their questions. They have a little one coming home from school, able to tell them about God with all the wonder and excitement of a child. Or maybe they’re from a family with a strong faith. Then that child amplifies what is already being taught in the home.

Whatever the case, we are so blessed and humbled to be a part of the sweet boy’s life.

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