True Servant-hood: Rio 1 Goes to Rio 3

After Hurricane Alex hit Monterrey the devastation was incredible! In a local community where B2B serves nearly 300 homes were washed away and close to 1,000 people were displaced. This community (Rio 3) was very impoverished before the hurricane, now it is even worse.
         Cathy Huffer (a fellow B2B worker) and I went out to another impoverished community (Rio1) where we minster on a regular basis. Out there two homes had been washed away, but the majority of the people were doing just fine. For over two years B2B has been standing alongside a soup kitchen in Rio 1, helping to provide warm meals, teaching, and children's minsitry each week. Over the past year we have seen several women from the community step up and be more involved. After hearing of the crisis at Rio 3 we talked to the leaders in Rio 1 and asked for thier help to cook and serve a warm meal to the families that had been displaced. The response was an overwhelming desire to help out! The next week Cathy and I went out the the soup kitchen and helped the ladies finish preparing a meal that would feed nearly 300 people. We then took five of the helpers with us to Rio 3 to serve the meal. This was a summer highlight for me! The ladies from Rio 1 felt very impowered in what they were doing. For some this may have been the first time in thier lives that they had been able to help someone more down and out then they were. Giving and serving empower! These ladies were hard workers and the result in them alone was amazing.


Our band of fearless cooks and servers from Rio 1!


China cooking meat.... more accostomed to a cooking fire, she thought the stove took too long!


Meme and Maru (B2B staff) cooking over the stove in the soup kitchen.

Meme teaching me how to make salsa! 

The Rio 1 ladies at work serving the people at Rio 3. 

Meme stirring a HUGE pot of pica dillo before serving.