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Vandalism, Vomiting And Vowels
It has been a busy and stressful past couple of days. Our family is still recovering emotionally from the burglary and vandalism of our home that took place on Monday. We have shed tears, cleaned up our home, attempted to count our losses and our blessings and thanked God for His mercy. It has been difficult, but we still have a responsibility to our ministry, our team and the short-term missionaries that came all the way from Colorado to serve this week.
Village Seven Presbyterian Church, the team from Colorado Springs, CO is a bundle of energy.
On Monday they began construction on a new house for a single mom with three kids. The mom works all day and her kids (two of them mute) live with grandma. The team also helped pour cement headers for the walls of our medical clinic in Armenia Bonito. In the afternoon they worked one-on-one with our English students to help them with proper pronunciation.
Tuesday found the team continuing with construction and hosting their second medical clinic in Armenia Bonito. They have treated over 60 patients including a few hard ones. Our friend Axel nearly cut his toe off chopping wood with and axe. Our visiting doctor cleaned the toe, stitched it up and likely saved it.
On Tuesday afternoon the team hosted their first of two Kids Clubs. They played games, sang songs and put on a great skit about Jonah and the big fish. They then helped the kids create their own vomiting fish by attaching party favors to a paper fish and instructing the kids to blow a paper Jonah from the fishes mouth…cool.
Please continue to pray with our family as we repair our home, sort through our emotions, discover new things that have been stolen and trust in our Father's perfect will.
