As the beginning of the Salvadoran school year approaches, craftsmen are putting the final touches on the two classrooms at Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe.  Walter uploaded upwards of 500 photos onto the photo site, and is sure to add more once the building is inaugurated and occupied.  I remember visiting this school on a particularly scorching afternoon about 3 years ago, and all that stood in that spot was a large rock.  It wasn’t a very useful rock, as it wasn’t appealing to the eye or good for climbing. Later, as I looked at the pictures of the workmen laboring to create a stable foundation for the new places of learning, a quote came to mind that you might recognize. “And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock.”

TLAU and the people of El Salvador thank you for being their rock.  The winter rains will fall again, the winds will rattle their tin roofs, and the earth may even shake as they have done before, but the children of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe are not alone.