A City Not Forgotten: Ferris Team 1

Mitch, Sondra, Jon, Baleigh, Evan, Jordan, Brittani, Melanie, Derek, Michelle, Kelly, Mike and Jonas

Ferris Team 1 got the chance to build within the city of Juarez this year. Usually, we're building homes out in the Kilometers, an area outside of the city where there are a lot of poorer families. But, the violence in Juarez has dropped significantly in the last few years and there are people within the city who need homes as well. Mitch and Baleigh led this team and were the first ones to finish their house and be back at the SHOC yesterday! Nice work team!

If you read our earlier posts, you're probably wondering where Jose came from since we didn't mention anything about him earlier. Well, it turns out that Delores was actually a single man, not a single woman and he prefers to go by Jose. Jose is a pastor and has a ministry for gang members. His testimony is pretty incredible! Two of his three children were killed in 2012 because of the violence going on in Juarez, but he still stays there and now has a ministry in the same neighborhood where his sons were killed. The team wasn't building him a house, but a place to do ministry! It was still the basic Casas structure, but he'll be able to more effectively run his ministry now since he has a place that can be solely for that purpose.

Brittani, Melanie and Derek counting all of the lumber pieces

Michelle and Derek

Mike skreeting the slab

Jon can do the splits!

Any suggestions for names for Jon, Mitch and Derek's boy band?

Monday night, the storm clouds started rolling in and the contrast between the clouds and sunshine were incredible on all of the sites, but especially on this one!