September visitors

 This past week was is a good example of unity for us, we had five very different churches come together to work and serve in various ways here in Bocachica. Very different people with different skills joined in with the community here to build up the body of Christ. It was a great time of fun, work, and edification.
 The highlights for us were reuniting with old friends and meeting new ones. Like we always say it is more vacation than work when a group comes. They say a "team" is coming, but that word sounds cheap and insufficient considering the reality of the people who came. I can not relate in a post all the details of all the personalities present. The week was challenging and rewarding, both work and pleasure. All the work on the state side that made it possible, Nathan and Julie Heafner working to organize all the details. All the gifts from people that made the right hand not know what the left hand was doing, we can't thank everyone involved because we do not know all those who contributed to the work.


 Despite the usual tropical affects of new stomach bacteria and insect bites and plants that cause strange rashes, everyone survived in good spirits. I can't give a full report of all that was done considering we had folks working simultaneously and I don't even know what all was done, I went in between the guys working on electrical and carpentry. We had a few nights of group updates and fellowship to see what everyone had accomplished. I think a vision was cast before some because I heard of plans for next time, how to more efficiently use the time, and how to advance in better ways. This is encouraging because it is evident to me that it isn't dependent on us to meet the goals, they are equal laborers.
I can share a few pictures, but this is a peek at little of what was done, and by no means exhaustive:

Bob and Nathan doing the electrical of one of the widow's houses in the village.

Picture of the guys with one of the widow's who got a new door from Ja Doss and Payton Doss

Damaris and Rob working in El Shadday with the computers.

Ja and Charlene Snead with Eulis the translator visiting a house in the community.
Thank you to everyone involved in all the aspects it took to make this happen.