Every rainy season, the church flooded. Water came through the old roof and turned the floor to mud. People still came to worship. They stood in puddles and held their children close to keep them dry.
A $1,000 metal roof changed that. About 400 people gather in that building — for worship, for community meetings, and when the rains get heavy and the water rises, as a place of safety.
Father Luis serves a rural community in southern Colombia. When he heard Quincy would fund the roof, he wept. He told the team that no one had ever cared for his community before. That was not a figure of speech.
At another church in the region, people had been carrying chairs from their homes up the hill for every service. A gift of 100 simple chairs meant they didn’t have to do that anymore. It seems small. For people already walking long distances, it was everything.