Two Salvadoran teens once helped missioner Josh Wetmore find his footing in an unfamiliar culture and language. Now, three years later, he finds himself walking the same roads with Emelly and Jeremiahs as they prepare for college—and as he prepares to return home. In the classroom, in the library, and along the dusty paths of El Cedro, their journeys have been intertwined in ways that continue to shape them all.
Missioner Josh Wetmore worked with the local community to create the new Biblioteca El Cedro, which opened Aug. 10 in the rural area of El Salvador where he serves.
Josh Wetmore shares a few stories about personal and ministry-related growth from his third year in El Salvador.
Josh Wetmore reflects on the new challenges and his expanding ministries of the past year.
Life in mission takes adjustments and frustrations, Josh Wetmore finds. But the payoff is in the encounters with wonderful people.
What I learned on the road less taken … because the normal one was blocked.
If only we notice it, the joy and beauty already present in the world can lift us up when we most need it.
A new missioner’s reflection on dignified housing and the value of hope he had taken for granted.
Starting in mission in El Salvador, Josh Wetmore learns the values of “esperar,” humility and soccer.
