Follow Jenny and Sam as they build a playground in Haiti

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The baroque (mechanical) console of the Manton Memorial OrganSince July 14, Ascension parishioner and seminarian Jenny Landis and her fiancé, seminarian Sam Owen, have been in Haiti, building a playground for the children in the town of Bondo.

Follow their trip on the blog they’re posting together, “Haiti 2011,” and you can read some excerpts from their most recent posts here. But be sure you click on a post’s title to read the whole story, see their pictures and to leave them a comment on any of their posts. It’s obviously a very meaningful trip for Sam and Jenny, but it sounds like it means even more to the kids in Bondo.


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