Team and Camp Preparations.

It's been a busy week with two days of it being spent out of the house in meetings with Pastors at churches as we are in full gear preparing the logistics for the January construction, medical and children's ministry teams. David and Katherine spoke to each group of Pastors about the medical aspect of the clinic and its set-up, while Ken spoke about construction, what the camp ministry is and thanking the Pastors for their willingness to host our team on behalf of Global Outreach Mission. I spoke on the children's ministry and what we hoped to accomplish through that ministry during the clinic. We then had a staff meeting putting together the tentative schedule and logistics for the two-week team. In addition, as more information filters to us, we are working on the December team's schedule as well, transportation needs, etc. Today, we have a smaller group at the camp, only 15 persons, who arrived this morning at 8 a.m. and will be spending the night. It is a Youth Group, so that is always fun to see and hear as they do ministry. Katherine and I spent another day this week cleaning at the camp in preparation for this group. Needless to say, today as soon as I finish this post, I will be working here in our home getting laundry caught up and our house tidied from another "drop and go" week. There has been a more steady progression of rain in Orosi the last couple of days with it raining more in the afternoon and evenings which makes for excellent sleeping weather. The rain keeps all the dogs and animals quieter at night. As I said before, it seems that this rainy season has been much drier than last year's here and this month is actually supposedly the height of the rainy season. Last night, we got a phone call with an invitation to come over to our missionary friend's home for dinner. They had just returned home from a three-day mini vacation. We thought that it might minister to them to get away and Heather and I offered to watch their children in their home to let them have some time away. I wanted to stay in the home with Heather who is their regular babysitter and called her every day at least twice to check in, but she didn't want her Mama hanging out with her in the house. Needless to say, they were very appreciative and invited us for pizza! We had a good time of fellowship with our families together. Well, I suppose I should get some chores done around the house and think about what we might have dinner as Heather has invited a guest for supper before the Youth Group meeting tonight! Just wanted to let everyone know...we're still kicking!