Palm Beach Atlantic left yesterday. Their cabins are clean, their bedding is washed and the beds have been remade for Team #2 which arrives this Saturday. Today, Ken will pick up a friend of ours from the airport who has also agreed to help with interpreting for this team and bring him back down to Orosi. Tomorrow, we have a final staff meeting in preparation for the team's arrival on Saturday, planning the two week menu, and working on the schedule which in itself will be complicated. This team will be doing three simultaneous ministries. Ken will stay back at the camp and coordinate the construction projects. Katherine & David will coordinate the medical clinics which will be in three different churches over a two week period. I will help to coordinate the children's ministry/teacher training that will take place at the same locations as the medical clinics in different buildings. The medical teams and children's ministry teams will be moved by bus to those locations throughout the week and return to the camp to join the construction team for dinner. Mid-week, the medical and children's teams will have a day back at the camp to "reload" supplies before going on to the next location. Once we've laid out the menu, the menu goes to Isa for her to make a grocery list and is returned to Ken & I to do the grocery shopping on Friday. On Saturday, because this team comes from different areas of Canada, they will be arriving at four different times. One trip will be made up to San Jose to pick up three members and then return to camp, then later in the evening another trip will be made to wait for three different arrivals (though pretty close together) to get the rest of the team. Also with this team of 20 comes 3 missionary interns, two are nurses and one is a construction person who will stay with us here at the camp for three months. Once they recover from getting off the plane and being thrown into two weeks of long days, we will let them rest and then do targeted ministry with them; the homeless shelter, the orphanage, taking vitals in neighborhoods near the camp and evangelizing, working alongside Team #3, etc. We will also help them to experience as much of Costa Rican missionary life as we can.
Pray for: Safety for the construction, medical and children's ministry teams as they are here ministering. Pray for individuals coming to the free medical clinics for treatment of medical conditions as well as "soul" conditions. Pray for the children who will be ministered to, some from broken, very poor families that we can clearly communicate their "significance" to God. Pray for the teacher's coming from these churches for Teacher Training and for us, as we instruct them on how to effectively teach and train children in the Word. Pray for our families, The Dundon's and the Huitz's as we work together, as we work apart, that God would be mirrored and that our households would be protected.
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