Just a couple more days with family.

It's been a busy time here with my family and their team. They arrived last Monday night. On Tuesday morning we had orientation. In the afternoon on Tuesday half of the group went up to San Jose to minister at the homeless shelter. While there we cleaned the building, prepared clothing, towels for those that would be coming in that evening and any other jobs that they asked us to do. The other half of the team stayed back and prepared a meal of spaghetti and sauce to bring up to the shelter to feed the 85 people. Once they arrived as a team we fed the people and my sister, Wendy, shared a message and invitation. We arrived back at the camp late. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we worked at the camp doing all sorts of "odd" jobs that Ken had lined up for us, although the main reason this team came down was to put the new roof on the bathroom addition which the contractor had been working on. Due to delays with the contractor, we may actually get to start the roof tomorrow before they leave on Friday! This has been so discouraging for the team. Last Friday, we prepared the Celebration Center for the clinic on Saturday. On Saturday, with the help of quite a few volunteers from the church we attended 135 patients at the medical clinic at the camp, 23 of which accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior! Two members of the team headed up Children's Ministry throughout the clinic. On Sunday immediately following breakfast we headed up to the orphanage and had three hours to minister to the kids. The guys on the team kept the older boys happy playing soccer. The same two team members headed up ministry to the kids through a Bible story, craft, Heather led the singing, games. We had a great time with all the kids who came out of their homes at the orphanage! Monday was our free day and the team was ready to see some sights in Costa Rica. We took them to the botannical gardens for a tour, souvenir shopping and to the Cafe Britt plantation tour. We arrived back at the camp late in the evening, but the team seemed to really have a good time together. Today, it was back to work finishing up painting, sanding of picnic tables and varnishing those, planting an herb garden for the camp cooks, painting part of the Celebration Center roof around the building, finishing painting the deck of the pool; just a lot of little "things" that it seems we never have enough time to get too and probably without this team would be a very long time until we were able to accomplish them. Well, tomorrow (Wednesday) and also Thursday, the team hopes to be able to get the okay from the contractor to begin putting on the roof of the new bathroom building. It's been a busy few days and I apologize for not posting a whole lot. It's now 9:50 p.m. and I still need to do my U.S. job and that's pretty much how things go when we have a team here.