Sunday, September 27, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Catching up
It's my plan to continue telling you about all that has been happening while we were so busy we didn't write. That means I now get to share photos about some of my family who came to see us two days after the the Breakthrough Outreach team left.
My Aunt Claire(who is my mother's sister), my Uncle Bobby, and their two oldest grandhildren came down to spend a week with us. It was a graduation gift for Cory and an early graduation gift for Taylor. It would be very hard for me to express with mere words how much it meant to me to have them all here, not to mention how much fun we had.
Of course the first thing we all wanted to do was take them to see Restoration Ranch. Aunt Claire has had her heart involved with RR since the very beginning, and it was special for all of us for her to be able to 'set foot' on the premises.
I think Taylor was most impressed with the mangoes and Bobo, our goat, who seemed to have developed a real liking for her very quickly.
My Aunt Claire(who is my mother's sister), my Uncle Bobby, and their two oldest grandhildren came down to spend a week with us. It was a graduation gift for Cory and an early graduation gift for Taylor. It would be very hard for me to express with mere words how much it meant to me to have them all here, not to mention how much fun we had.
Of course the first thing we all wanted to do was take them to see Restoration Ranch. Aunt Claire has had her heart involved with RR since the very beginning, and it was special for all of us for her to be able to 'set foot' on the premises.
I think Taylor was most impressed with the mangoes and Bobo, our goat, who seemed to have developed a real liking for her very quickly.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Another Great Team
On the very day that the Living Praise team left for home we received another great team. This one from Breakthrough Outreach Center in Spartanburg, SC. Long time friends, Scott and Shelly Clegg, made the arrangements to introduce their pastor to this nation and to our ministry here. Another match made in heaven. Literally.
We arranged for Pastor Mike Nelson to minister in one of our favorite dominican churches and then we took him out to the farm for some Restoration Ranch ministry! A lot of work with a dash of rest thrown in for good measure.
From there the group went out to San Juan where we have worked for years to add what support we can to Robbie Strickland, the missionary there. Along with a brief message of the gospel, the group provided rice and beans as well as some basic toiletries to the church people of one of the small villages near San Juan.
We arranged for Pastor Mike Nelson to minister in one of our favorite dominican churches and then we took him out to the farm for some Restoration Ranch ministry! A lot of work with a dash of rest thrown in for good measure.
From there the group went out to San Juan where we have worked for years to add what support we can to Robbie Strickland, the missionary there. Along with a brief message of the gospel, the group provided rice and beans as well as some basic toiletries to the church people of one of the small villages near San Juan.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Time Flies When You're Having Fun
It's hard to believe how long it's been since this site was updated. So much has happened since the last post so I guess I'll just sum up some of what has been going on.
When we returned from the US in May, we came right to work with a fun team from Living Praise in Taylors, S.C. It was an all male team, and we really enjoyed working with them. One of the men, Bob, has a PhD in the study of insects, and we had a blast at the local school near Restoration Ranch. Bob and I faithfully looked up the correct spanish words for the bugs that I was not familiar with. (Okay, Bob did most of the looking up.) That particular labor was not totally successful as the kids and even the teachers looked at me strangely until I actually described the creature. THEN they all told me the local word for it. Who knew we could have so much fun talking about bugs and insects?
The guys put in a lot of hard work in the construction there at Restoration Ranch also. And then they painted the bunk house. They stayed busy - and seemed to like it that way.
When we returned from the US in May, we came right to work with a fun team from Living Praise in Taylors, S.C. It was an all male team, and we really enjoyed working with them. One of the men, Bob, has a PhD in the study of insects, and we had a blast at the local school near Restoration Ranch. Bob and I faithfully looked up the correct spanish words for the bugs that I was not familiar with. (Okay, Bob did most of the looking up.) That particular labor was not totally successful as the kids and even the teachers looked at me strangely until I actually described the creature. THEN they all told me the local word for it. Who knew we could have so much fun talking about bugs and insects?
The guys put in a lot of hard work in the construction there at Restoration Ranch also. And then they painted the bunk house. They stayed busy - and seemed to like it that way.
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