It takes about 18 months of work to pull off a semester of Harding University Latin America. And it’s over in an instant. What happens over the course of three months, though, is real. The walks. Hours around the table. The conversations. The encounter with difference that teaches us something fundamental about what it means to be human.
Here we are a year and eight-ish months later. I am officially back in the US, but before I departed from Arequipa, I wrote these final words to my church community. After apprenticing under the Daggetts and working in communal missions, this little speech sums up the radical effect my time in Peru had on my life and what it taught me about following Jesus and loving others.
