The pilgrims are doing fine ...

This morning I chatted on Facebook with Noah Bullock. Noah is the director of Cristosal, a U.S.-based organization that supports the work of the Episcopal Church in El Salvador. I met him three years ago on my first El Salvador pilgrimage.

Noah says our pilgrims are doing fine. Last Saturday, they played against Episcopal youth and young adults in the "Bishop's Cup" futbol tournament and got their ... er ... rumps kicked.

On Monday and Tuesday, the pilgrims helped build 40 meters of road in Izalco. And today they're headed out to El Carmen to help repair storm damage to a bridge.

Noah said he'd let the pilgrims know we love them and are excited to see them home tomorrow night.

Also in the last couple days, I've reestablished contact with some of the Salvadoran young adults we met in 2007, including Edgardo Mendoza and Azucena Alvarez. (Edgardo is on the left in the red shirt, in a photo from our 2007 pilgrimage.) Both are now Facebook friends of mine.

Through them I discovered a Facebook page called Juventud Anglicana de El Salvador. Edgardo tells me that photos from the Bishop's Cup will be posted there soon.