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Being With vs Doing For

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  Being With vs Doing For Our time in LaGrange is rapidly coming to a close. It has continued to be busy, although it has also felt good to cross off many projects as "done." The rental apartment is ready for the two Mission Year young couples who come the end of August and will reside here for a year. The apartment is on the same street where the director couple of Casa Alterna lives and where most of our interactions take place. Consequently, we've been able to move to this remodeled apartment and have a bit more space. The space also got used some for the second week of summer camp, and for Ruth to teach English classes to adults and youth. Ruth continued to do the scheduling of visitors to immigration inmates at Stewart Detention Center through El Refugio. We both also served with El Refugio another weekend. Besides the physical labor of working on the apartment, we've been involved with driving people to immigration check-in appointments in Atlanta, drivin...