Thursday, July 2, 2009

WEDNESDAY

Some of the medical team went up to deliver more medication to the people who did not get some Tuesday. The team handed out 80 more toothbrushes and toothpaste plus they had a brief dental hygiene lesson. They had about 30 people there for medical follow up. They administered more antibiotics as well as set up referrals and made arrangements to get people to hospitals who had orthopedic or gynecological problems.

Adam and I went to the City to purchase a concessions-sized popcorn maker for a dorm of 58 boys. We also picked up 6,000 vitamins, 2,000 vitamin C, 1,500 children’s vitamins, and 40 bottles of scabies cream. Oh, Adam and I had Guatemalan Wendy’s in town and that was my medication!

The team in the village finished some wiring and moved more dirt while leveling the ground for the main floor cement poor on Thursday. The team took out a tree stump and worked on cleared out an area for stairs. The church is all finished with painting, just some detail work that needs to be done on Friday.

A very rare thing happened at the village. One of our college girls Jessica, had been communicating with some of the Guatemalan women, was called over to her house today. So she went. The ladies asked her to take off her clothes! They then proceeded to dress her in a celebration village dress that the ladies would wear in the village to weddings, and special events. These dresses are almost NEVER given away. The color of the pants represents what state the person is from and the top represents what village they are from. So long story short, the ladies gave Jessica l the dress! Tim was floored as he has seen groups work with other churches and never has this type of thing happened. The clothes given were worth roughly $400 to $500 US!!! So when Jessica came out, Brianna and Cacey came over to her and were telling the ladies how beautiful the dresses were, the ladies took them into their house and have them dresses as well! These people have NOTHING and they are giving their most expensive item to us as a gift of thanks. This event was truly humbling and wonderful all at the same time. Praise God for His ability to teach all of us something more about living like Him every day! Our entire group goes out to the village on Saturday, so please be praying for God to be proclaimed and glorified to all in the village.

The team here at casa continued work hard today. Bill and Graham worked on tile on the floor and another crew continued the false ceiling in pastor Dave’s dorm. The ladies are still working on cleaning the kitchen in the baby dorm! Another large group of 15 or so moved dirt and began to level the ground for the new church and girls dorm here at Casa. Deloris and Armeda cut out fabric for aprons. The rest of the team worked on painting and more painting.

Wes, Dave, Tyler and Bo all handed out matchbox cars to the 5-8 year old dorm today. That was a lot of fun and the boys immediately began racing and crashing there cars. One little boy, who took two, came up to Wes on his own accord and gave the car back he stole. Little things like this happen all the time here. The Holy Spirit continues to work in the lives of these kids.

Today we had an adoption meeting… we found out mostly what we already know. However we are now trying to get a meeting with JonJon down at the CNA in the city with our lawyer. I would really appreciate your prayers on this.

The kids at Casa had Bible tonight and so a few of our team went to that. They really teach these kids here.

Tonight the medical team re-organized and re-packed the vitamins for the medical clinic in the afternoon. They will also get to have some dental hygiene assemblies in the schools today. They are having a good time, serving God with their gifts.

**Please petition God for continued health. We have a hand full of individual problems with health issues, however, no real team patterns of sickness.
**Please also pray for our team meeting Thursday night… we will be worshiping together.

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