Dios es real! (God is real)

After weeks of planning and many sleepless nights, our team arrived in Costa Rica Sunday afternoon and made our way through the rainforest to our destination of Finca 2.  Our first evening and first day (Monday) consisted of preparing for the week and adjusting to getting along with each other despite lack of sleep and incredible heat. By days end we collapsed in hopes of  reenergizing before beginning our V.B.S today. Thanks be to God, we all woke up in better spirits and began to work as the united team we are supposed to be!



Some of the kids had their faces in our windows by 5:30 am waiting to catch a glimpse of the team. We began our cowboy themed VBS on time and prepared, and we melted as the first smiling faces entered. There is something about their eyes that reminds us of why we are here and shows us the truth we taught today; That God is Real!






We are blessed to be back here to serve with missionaries and friends, Ted and Gracie Quiocho. We have also added three new friends who volunteered to help us this week. Larry and Ted have begun their projects of building bunk beds and doing home repairs and improvements. As is the case often in Latin America, supplies were not ready when promised so their schedule will be long and hard for the balance of the week. We miss everyone and appreciate your support. Prayers are needed for each and every day as there is always opposition! Keep posted!

Wednesday we continued our VBS with 10 additional children. We are anticipating more tomorrow! The children already know the first 2 songs by heart and are working on the dances. Today the children learned that God is with us always, even when they are being naughty!! (And that goes for us too:) We had a cultural "aha" moment, when we surprised the kids with fruit rollups and failed to tell them not to eat the plastic rapper. Good thing they get a lot of fiber in their beans to help the plastic pass through.

Larry and Ted have been busy building bunk beds to help the ministry house large teams. But as is the way in construction, the wood was not ready when promised. But, they're working hard to accomplish their project by weeks end.