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Rhode Island couple pen outstanding travelogue about Global Builders trip to Armenia
Rhode Island couple pen outstanding travelogue about Global Builders trip to Armenia
If you want to know what a Fuller Center Global Builders trip to Armenia is like, just ask John and June Mangassarian, a service-minded couple from Providence, Rhode Island.
Actually, you don’t have to ask them because they’ve described such a trip in extensive and fascinating detail in a first-person travelogue about their experience this year that appears in the Armenian Weekly that you can read here.
In it, the Mangassarians write about:
- How they learned about the Global Builders’ program in Armenia through a friendship made at Camp Haiastan more than 50 years ago
- The differences between going to Armenia on vacation in 2019 and on a service trip led by Leo and Sona Manuelian in 2021
- Having Mount Ararat (where the Bible says Noah’s Ark came to rest) as a backdrop for the entire build
- The physically exhausting but spiritually satisfying days on the site, helping a family that had been living in a metal container
- Their impressions of some major Armenia tourist attractions
- And much, much more
For more details and images, check out their report in the Armenian Weekly.
Photo gallery from the trip provided by Fuller Center of Armenia:
John with Sona Manuelian, a friend from camp more than 50 years ago
Mount Ararat, as seen from the build site
Bucket brigade
Family members helping
June passing buckets
Volunteer team gets started
John at work
Bucket brigade
Trip leaders Leo and Sona Manuelian
Volunteers with the family
Current home (domik) at left
Donating clothing to a women's shelter


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