Wednesday, July 27, 2011

2nd Work Day!

Wow, did today go better! We have no internet access on our only computer at the hostel, so we will not be able to skype as we thought. We will use the Pan de Vida computer from now on! Yeah!
Our second day of VBS was much better. Rebekah led us in a devotion about putting on the full armor of God, and that gave us strength for the day. Praise God! We had 54 kids today, and all activities went much smoother. We taught about the Gifts of the Magi and the kids loved it, especially the Ring Pops (jewels of the kings).
The bathroom project is progressing, too. They are building a 2 story room now, with the bathrooms on the bottom floor and more offices on the 2nd floor. The offices will be added later, but the structure will all be built at the same time. They have the 4 holes for the columns dug and are starting to fill the holes with cement and gravel.
The rest of the work today was trim painting and spackeling the outer wall, inside and out. Tomorrow we roll paint, then the wall will be done! We finish our day today helping with the service and dinner at Pan de Vida, then dinner ourselves. Tomorrow we have a full day then serve the workers at the Zambiza dump.
We are all well with lots of team bonding. Hopefully we will be able to send pictures soon. Please keep us in your prayers, and THANKS for all of the comments - keep them coming! WE are praying for all of you back home, too. Blessings from our team!

8 comments:

  1. glad to see that all of you are well and enjoying the time there...alas I see you are still painting..but I see this a different wall than the one you painted and painted and painted last year..hope that wall is still up with all the paint...
    Love to all
    may God continue to bless all of you and all you do....

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  2. Glad to hear things are going better. Let me know of any other specific prayer requests. Can't wait to see some pictures. I have definitely stepped out of my comfort zone as prayer team leader but I am persevering. If you guys can do it, I can too. I pray the Lord takes any obstacles out of your way so that your mission can reach the children. Love to all and especially Bekka and Larry, I really miss you. It's really quiet with just me and the 3 dogs. I have been trying for 3 days to comment on the blog, if this one actually goes through it will be due to my new laptop! Cheryl

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  3. Yes! Success! I'm doing my happy dance!

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  4. You guys really had a full day today. It is impressive what you are accomplishing. God is blessing the ministry there, and we are so fortunate to have you guys as part of our church.

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  5. WOW! You guys are busy. I am so glad VBS went so well round two. Praise God!! Keep up the good work and thank you for serving in Quito. You are showing them the love of God in service, and in the teachings you are sharing with the children. I know God must be beaming proudly looking down at you! Take care and you are always in our daily thoughts and prayers.

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  6. Wonderful to hear about the work you all are doing. You are in our prayers!

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  7. Thanks for the update, it was a relief to hear that all is going well. Some times it takes a day or two to work out the kinks, which it sounds like you all did. We continue to send our prayers your way and miss you all very much. Give Megan a big hug from me...we miss her! Keep up the good work and God bless you all!

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  8. God is GREAT! He will work through all of you even when things don't go perfect. We learned that in Cuba and are still, a week later, finding out about things that happened while we were there. We continue to pray for all of you that you remain safe and that God's mission will be done. We had to learn that sometimes our mission is not the same as God's and once we accepted that things went so much better. Say hi to Erica for us. Your friends in Christ

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