Father Nicholas Solak and a group of nine others traveled to St. Innocent Orphanage near Tijuana, Mexico in July to join with more than 100 other Orthodox from the United States and Canada in building homes for four poverty-stricken families.  Seven in the group were parishioners from Holy Trinity in Stroudsburg – five of whom were hard-working young ladies between the ages of 14 and 21.  This is the second year Holy Trinity has carried out a mission trip with Project Mexico – the Orthodox organization at St. Innocent Orphanage that oversees this work.  The trip - eight days and seven nights – involved four days of house  building, one day stuccoing a wall at the orphanage, two travel days, daily worship, a trip to the ocean, basketball games, volleyball games, soccer games, guest speakers, getting to know the local people (especially neighborhood children),  quiet time  and wonderful  Christian fellowship.