Sorry about not posting yesterday. We have been having trouble with the internet connection at the base. So if you were expecting an email or facebook reply from a team member this is why you haven't received it. There are many things you take for granted in Canada that may not work in Costa Rica.
We have now finished two of the three VBS days we had planned. Each day we have a worship session in the morning and leave for Guarari by 9am. After spending the morning with some preparing for the VBS program and some working on the work projects, we then do the VBS program in the afternoon.
Both days have gone very well. God has been good. The VBS days ran smoothly and the work projects are progressing nicely and we should be able to finish them both.
We had a great God moment yesterday. After supper, Monica, one of the teens from Heredia, got a piece of wood in her eye at the base. We tried to clean it out for quite some time and were beginning to think we needed to take her to the hospital. Ralph realized that one of the team members in the other group was wearing scrubs. So he went to the other team to ask if he was a doctor and if he could look at Monica's eye. He was not only a doctor but an optometrist. He was able to remove what was in her eye and give her medicine drops for her eye. God's plans are amazing!
Well, you have probably heard enough from me. Let me see if I can get some others to post.
from Katheen: Thanks Mike for doing this blog! Great contribution for us all back here.
ReplyDeleteOptometrist - now that's a timely gift. Wonder what God has in that for Monica - may she see the deeper meaning God has for her.
Last night at Kerr's your parents were there - so great to have their depth and steadiness and Love for God shine through their prayers - they inspire! As usual they were talking about how some in the room have been their students at one time in the past. Love the heritage you have that is a great gift. This week I am remembering my mother's passing into His 'seen' presence last year. This year there is a great sadness about the loss - the emptiness where my parents are gone. But also there is a new awakening of how the value of who they are/were to me is something that will never leave me and is threaded hopelessly into my own soul and personality so that in a sense I will always have something of their life with me. In the sadness there is more gratitude this year. Wonder who around you in the hall in Guarari is carrying sadness and loss of loved ones. May that community hall be a place of true and wholesome community long beyond the generation of Norma Fernando, Melanny, into the futures of these children as they become parents and grandparents. Assure each of them of our prayers when you get the chance. Thanks Mike.