Wednesday Posting

A happly woman who owns a stove

The guys mixing up cement

Hauling up bricks.  We need to be mountain goats for this place!

10:30 Wednesday

Hi Everyone!

Another jam packed day in Guatemala.   Please check out our film strip.  I was able to make one with a few more shots that might be interesting.

 Up for devotional that we start at 7 AM.

Deb led us again with her guitar through a few songs.  Kelly Jo was in charge of the devotional today.  We reviewed our team covenant as well as she shared the scripture of Romans 12:4-19.  She emphasized that we form one body in Christ and we all have different gifts to offer on our mission and we discussed how our different gifts are a blessing on this mission.

After our devotion we went to Oscar’s house for cereal and yummy fruit.

Then we were on our way to El Yalu to work on our wood stoves again.  We will be finishing 2 stoves tomorrow and one or two on Friday before our mission is complete at El Yalu.  Two of the stoves had a concrete base laid today with the other nearly ready.  A forth stove was started today and we needed to take supplies from the community building where we are based at and take them to another home.  This time the home was fairly close to the facility but the last 100 yards off the road you nearly needed to be a mountain goat to climb to the home’s entrance.

During the day Oscar took us to see two properties in the village that Los Olivos has purchased.  One parcel for a playground which I mentioned yesterday and another for a church.  He mentioned to us that when the village came to El Yalu that people said you will never be able to create an evangelical church in their village.  But here a short time later they have people attending church in one of the homes and have had nearly a hundred people come to Christ there.  Praise God.

The team again served dinner to the lesser fortunate children of the village.  I guess they are handpicked by the doctor for the Hand-In-Hand feeding center as ones most in need and they are the ones that get the meals 3 times a week and are allowed to play there.  We also were able to meet the man and woman who are in charge of the facility.  I am sorry I did not write their names down but the man was originally from Appleton, WI.

After a quick cleanup at our motel without anyone loosing electricity we went to Oscar’s house for dinner.  Karla had made spaghetti and a stir fry chicken and cookies.  Karla needs to be commended in so many ways of serving our group as well as previous others that have come down here.  Kudos to her.

After dinner it was off to church for our English as a Foreign Language.  Tonight we switched students for the first time.  I did not get to talk much about it to the others but one of the things I found interesting was in our group.  Our group is responsible for biblical terms like God, Christ, Holy Spirit, and so forth.  To have a little fun we played bingo and used pennies for the markers.   When we handed out the pennies the students were fascinated and looked them over so carefully and turned them over to see what they looked like and all.  They probably never have seen US currency before.  We gave them each one to take home and mentioned that the words on the top said “In God we trust”.

Tomorrow will be more of the same.  I hope I am not boring anyone.  I see we have had comments in the blog and I have passed them on to the team and that the blog has created a lot of interest.

For some of you technical people  I prepare this right before bed and my roommates are already crashed.  I look and prepare photos and then I post them at Oscar’s during breakfast time.  That is my narrow window of opportunity.  So thank you all for sharing the good news of God with us and supporting us in so many ways.  We know many of you are praying for us and that gives us comfort.