MISSION HOUSE PHOTOS & STORIES

Here are photos from the past couple of months. Enjoy! They are photos of Barb Cook team and a new playground built at the orphanage in Cacao, Josias in his new black hitops learning to ride a scooter brought down by one of the teams. Oneida's children on the porch of a house we built them with Leanne and Anne-Marie and a bunch of great women a couple of years ago. Oneida's husband was murdered recently. And, Al Barrett's sewing ministry, Threads of Hope, donated and shipped down to us lots and lots of rolls of heavy duty vinyl. We have built some houses using the vinyl and spending only about $1,000.00 to build the houses each. We also built a cart for a local lady, Digna Oro, to sell her food on the beach here in Porvenir. You would be amazed at the ways God sees fit to use His people who make themselves AVAILABLE to Him.

Bicycle Giveaways!!

Our last Canada Team led by Barb & Mal Cook and Albert Boutin, brought bicycles down to give away plus a great bike mechanic to work on ones the locals brought over to the house. Many thanks to Josh Berger and his family for providing bikes, parts, and expertise and to everyone who worked on those bikes. These photos are of Maria's kids receiving a couple of the bikes. Need I say how blessed they are by them? Carol Beatson and her church are responsible for that beautiful pink bike in this photo. Thank you all!! God bless.

RAIN FOREST PROBLEMS

The water has dried up in El Porvenir. A couple of weeks ago, there was no more water. 17 men from Porvenir climbed the mountain into the rain forest to check the source...it's just about completely dried up. They have put the town on water rations. Two hours a night, the water is turned on to fill your available containers. Thank God, someone had the forethought to put a water retention container on our property. We can have water for the teams and not be completely dried up. However, Scott felt we needed to dig a well. That was on a Monday, last week. By Wednesday, we had hand-dug a well, capped it, plumbed it to feed into our retention container and decided this will become our next project....to dig wells for villages having these same issues...so, while we wait on a "God blessed rain", we will begin believing for funds to dig more wells. We were blessed to find water at 9 feet!! It won't be quite that shallow in other spots, but there is plenty of underground water. We just need to put in a little cash, sweat, and prayers.