Clean-Up after the Storm

Friday afternoon, June 24th. The guys did a great job of cleaning up the grounds.

STORM! Wednesday night, June 22

We had a brief thunderstorm on Wednesday evening, but it took out about 8 or 9 trees on MEDA. Mark, Rhich and the Patterson boys clean up the fallen trees and branches after the storm.

Everyone gets involved.

Caleb uses the axe to chop up the tree into managable pieces.

More of June 21st

Close-up of the beets.

(as of June 27th, the beets need to be thinned out as they are about 3 inches tall)

June 23, 2011

This is the little garden that Rhich and the men from Riverbend Church made.

'Tori and Rhich planted a few seeds, and WOW!

June 21, 2011

Back to gardening again.

(This was around June 21-22, 2011)

A week after the Riverbend group went back home to Florida, Rhich is back at work trying to spruce up the landscape at our local church. While he's planting the "Mother-in-law's-Tongue", some of the Dayhome kids are also having fun.

The kids love to have their pictures taken.

Playing Catch-up

We have been enjoying so much of time in Siguatepeque, that we've been a little too tired to post.  In between the time that the wonderful group from Riverbend Church came and left and before the next conference (it was only a few days), we were reminded that we should stop work and take some time to play.



A neighboring cow escaped after her morning milking and decided come over to play on the teeter-totter, but she didn't have a partner.



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She investigates the slide, but it's not quite big enough.




She stares down the swing set at MEDA, but . . .  Oh, well.



Riverbend Teaches Our Youth

The fabulous group of young adults from Riverbend Church in Daytona, Florida came to visit and minister to us this past week. They are such a faithful, committed, loyal group of great Christian witnesses. They did a lot of hard manual labor without so much as a grimace. Never did they complain, even when shoveling the manure off the back of the truck.

They also taught our children and neighboring children Vacation Bible School (VBS). In the mornings, a group of the team went to locals schools and also taught VBS. The local schools asked them to come back.

What a testimony!

This wonderful group from Riverbend was also a refreshing blessing to us as they ministered to us through song, prayer, personal testimonies and fellowship. We love them all and pray for their continued Christian walk and protection.

We love you!