Team El Salvador Trip Goals

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Guest blogger - Tim Lehman

In preparation for our trip to El Salvador, each team member established a head (rational behavior/expectation) and heart (emotional behavior/expectation) goal. The reasons for coming on the trip varied widely, but some common themes bound the team together.

Head goals:
1. Safely complete our work.
2. Opportunity for a team build with other Thrivent employees.
3. Represent Thrivent’s values of faith, family, stewardship and service.
4. Provide needy El Salvadorian families with a home.

Heart goals:
1. Let Christ’s love and light shine.
2. Realize a deeper compassion for those in need - and talk action on it.
3. Fulfill a mission of my own or of someone who has passed on before me.
4. Reaffirm that we are part of a great organization.
5. Create lasting friendships with fellow Thrivent employees.

Today we completed our third of five build days. Everyone on the team feels as individuals and a group we are making progress on our head and heart goals. Keep us in your prayers for the remaining two build days and on our travels home. We will be better people, Christians and Thrivent employees as a result of this experience.

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Comments

[Lisa Lent]

Way to go Mary and Marcia
Hi Mary and Marcia: I have enjoyed reading about your amazing progress in El Salvador. You are doing God's work thru your hands. Wishing you much happiness. Your actions reaffirm Thrivent's mission. Can't wait to hear all about it when you return. Lisa

[Erin Hunker]

Hi Krystal!
It is so neat to be able to read your teams' progress this week, and I love seeing the photos, too. Great work! I can't wait to see you when you get home!

[Sheila Kruse]

Greetings from Appleton
Hey Marcia and Cate! Sounds like you are having another amazing adventure!! I sure wish I was there to experience it with you!! Reading the blog about the birthday celebration reminded me of the celebration we had with the children in Costa Rica! I'll never get those images out of my mind of their faces as we were driving away in the bus! Hope you all have safe travels back home and be sure to spread the word of the great work that Thrivent is doing through the partnership with Habitat!! ~Sheila