Lots O' Shoes!!

Christ for The City's Skate La Carpio team's up for the Tom's Shoes annual distribution. Lots more worked behind the scenes to make this happen. Just think of all the little feet that will be blessed...

Love Offering

Us folks in the field get a lot of mileage out of our shoes. Friends come down sometimes to join us in our work and love on us so we can keep going. Super big thanks to our friends from Kentucky for your love, for your work and for the new treads. Glory and praise to the Giver of all good things!!

BaSk8ball

New sport that combines full speed contact with chaos...

Ghetto Innovation

Squeegee made from bike inner tube. Possible infomercial soon...

Ghetto Sunset

Edge Of A Skateboard

One of the best pics of the year, taken last week by our own skater Kirg.

In La Carpio

Liminal space, between the ghetto and the garbage dump.

Safe Landing

Shot w/ a Nikon compact S9100, love the depth of field...

Lots O' Shoes

Perspective

One Of These Guys

Just did all the weight.

The Twins

Luis Carlos.

Old Friends

Skate Saturday

And much more, mas fotos on the facebook...

Subway Sunset

Subway Skate Summit

Gracias Oakwood!!

Birthday Boys

Josue 17, Mario 24. Skate La Carpio!!

Christopher

Gets presented with an 8G USB drive (courtesy of Oakwood) by Freddy (instructor) for teamwork and creativity in 3-D Programming class (Alice 3.0).

Projection

3 Piano Players

And 1 drummer...

Last Week

Oakwood

This Little Guy

He belongs to Luis Carlos, the original captain and founder of the best soccer team ever in La Carpio. I first met Luis Carlos on a mission trip when he was only 15. The rest is history, the best team captain ever would go on to become a solid family man and even name his son after me. After one of the best mission teams ever and too much to else mention, I think I'll follow his lead and sleep for a few days. Maybe some waves and a sunset somewhere in between...

Manuelito 18 Today!!

Fierce, fearless, mi hermano marmelo.

Jesus Loves La Carpio

Maykol 18 Today!!

He was a huge part of this a few weeks ago with his Tenacious D!!

Testimony Time

Oakwood!!

Santiago

We can work with this...

The Fireworks

From Alajuela.

Cristian

Leonel's kid.

Hincho 1984-2012

Defender of the defenseless, big brother of an entire community, father of two sons. One of the last known pics of him taken Saturday (June 23rd) after coaching the little warriors to yet another championship.  We're gonna miss you bro...

Malaco

On his 13th birthday (Friday).

Jimmy

Julio

Josué

Randall

16 today, honored to have known him for half of his life.

For My Mother

Colorful La Carpio

Down By The River

Ghetto Games

This one is called "carga el burro". I first saw this game on a Fat Albert episode years ago. I believe they called it Buck Buck. I thought they just made it up for the show. Who knew that the game was real and that some day I would wind up working between a ghetto and a garbage dump? Hey hey hey...