Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Children's Ministry Supplies
Friday, October 24, 2008
Celebration Center wall sealing

Many of you who have been reading the blog know of our partnership with God Festival. Tomorrow, God Festival was bringing its 100+ volunteers to the camp for a day of ministry...to each other. The gate to the camp was going to be closed and locked and all of the physicians, dentists, hair stylists, pharmacists and the many volunteers who help them were going to serve each other. The camp was going to be made available for them to set up in, to swim, play a fun game of soccer, fellowship and we were going to be providing their meal to them. Unfortunately, in other areas of Costa Rica, there has been a massive amount of flooding caused by the rainy season as of late, and God Festival had to cancel with us. God Festival has been on the TV for the last three days begging for donations of clothing and food to allow them to meet the needs of those people devastated by the flooding.
Since God Festival cancelled early in the week with us, it meant that the rest of the week and the weekend were free and open at the camp. Ken decided to begin working on the walls of the Celebration Center in preparation for the construction teams that will be coming down from the U.S. and Canada in January & February '09. Our architect here in Costa Rica recommended that the gaps in the concrete walls be filled in and sealed with epoxy. It's a bit of a messy, and smelly job. While the team here was disappointed that we would not be able to serve our friends with God Festival this weekend, we are thankful for the oppotunity that this has afforded us to get to work on the walls!
Please do keep God Festival and it's volunteers who are working hard and long hours throughout this weekend in your prayers as they minister to the flooded, remote areas of Costa Rica proclaiming His Name in deed and in truth!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Luna (en espanol "Moon")

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Singing in Espanol!

Friday, October 17, 2008
Youth Group Fundraiser - Costa Rican Style!
Tamales are usually cooked for special occasions and not eaten as regular food. A couple of months ago the camp cook, Isa, made over 100 when a distant relative in her family died. They were taken to the church to be shared with everyone who attended the funeral. Tico tradition is that you make your "best" tamales at Christmas and they are given to your family and close friends much like our tradition is to give Christmas cookies. We have been told to expect a lot of tamales at Christmas!
For this fundraiser, we made and sold 180 tamales! They sold for 500 colones or $1 a bundle. This will help send the Youth Group on a weekend retreat at a different campground, since they regularly meet on Saturday nights at our campground and they like to feel like they are "really getting away". All of the food items were donated for the tamale-making by various families of the Youth and church members.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Short-Term Team Preparations beginning in Costa Rica

Thursday, October 09, 2008
Extreme Make-Over: POOL edition!



Tuesday, October 07, 2008
The "bail out"!!!
The bail out of water down here in Costa Rica, that is! This month, October, is supposed to be the rainest month of the rainy season; that's what we've been told anyways. Things got a little scary around here this afternoon when Kyle and I stepped out our front door and realized that the good-sized ditch across the road from our driveway was up over the embankment and flooding our neighbor's house. We quickly began moving things to higher ground off our front porch (our shoes) and in our front room, the livingroom. I ran down the road and got Ken at the camp and we started helping our neighbor, Norberto. It was pretty messy, but we had fun working away with the family to clean the home. His sister, Isa, is our camp cook and Isa's husband, Koki, is the camp groundskeeper, who came with Ken when I found him at the camp. We also got an urgent phone call from Marjorie, our Spanish teacher, asking us to drive to town, Orosi, and help her remove water from her home as well. This week the team is working around the rains trying to paint the camp swimming pool that we drained over the weekend. We've got a rental group coming in this weekend and we hope to have it back up and running by then. Yikes! I've got cabins to clean tomorrow!
Labels:
Missions Ministry,
Serving in Costa Rica
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
There's no place like HOME!
After a long day of traveling due to bus and roadway delays, we sat at the bus station for 5-1/2 hours before our bus came, we finally arrived home. We enjoyed ourselves in San Juan Del Sur, but it sure is different than what we are used too. We got through the border on Saturday, only to find out from another couple on Monday who were staying in our same hotel, that someone had been murdered there at the border crossing on Sunday. When asked what to do with the body they were told to put it in the trash and it would be burned later. Thank you to anyone who prayed for us as we traveled. As you can see, your prayers are very important to our family and God allowed us more importantly than "delays" to travel with safety!
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