The sun seems to burn hotter in Salinas Grande. Scraggly trees provide little shade, the rocky ground radiates heat up through your shoes, and the water only turns on for three days a week.

Friday isn't one of the water days. But that doesn’t stop Discipleship programming.

Our staff and the volunteer leaders meet up every Friday at a concrete basketball court in the middle of the community. The Salinas kids - those officially enrolled in the program, and others tagging...