February 5th, 2016
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GRACE MINISTRIES 2016 – TEAM 1 (FINAL ENTRY)
Friday, February 5th, 2016GRACE MINISTRIES 2016 – TEAM #1A (DAY TWO)
Friday, February 5th, 2016Friday, February 5 – our day began with the morning worship/Bible study time. Carla Mast, Laura Nyitray & Juan Marcos Ruiz led the musical praise. Good job! Evangelist Michael Mason brought us a word from the Word. Good stuff.
The doctors left early heading to their two appointments. They said both meetings were productive. I personally appreciate Dr. Mike Clark taking the time to meet with them. What a gracious man!
While I do not have the exact numbers, I am told that the medical team had a good day of doing ministry at the feeding center. They were planning to build a medical file for each of the seventy five children in the center. The feeding center is such a valuable part of GRACE Ministries. The members of this team know they can spend as much time as they like at the center. It trumps the medical clinics and the construction. Important!
A small building team drove the one hour and forty five minutes or so to a village. What a great crew! They completely finished (minus doors & windows) four houses which means the concrete was poured too. Two other houses were completely finished up to the point of being ready to receive concrete. This team did not even get started until almost noon and yet they got a lot done. God thing!
Supper was followed by fellowship. Looking forward to tomorrow. Thanks for praying. Thanks for reading. Blessings!
GRACE MINISTRIES 2016 – TEAM #1A
Friday, February 5th, 2016Yesterday/last night marked the arrival of thirty seven new folks joining the six of us already here to make up the second half of GRACE Ministries team #1A. Those thirty seven arrived in three waves – 1:30PM, 8:30PM & 10:30PM. I met the afternoon group, Derek Draft & David Scholz met the first evening group and Nick Davis met the last group. I appreciate Derek, David & Nick going “above & beyond” to help with this vital part of the trip.
So, our day begins with our morning worship time at 7:00AM. Evangelist Michael is our team pastor while Carla Mast will be leading our musical worship. John Gissal will be our guest soloist for the day!
We have one group of medical folks that will be in two meetings which will basically consume their day. Another group of medical folks led by Lisa Bomers & Laura Nyitray (ok, so we had no one else to lead!) will host a medical clinic. The rest of the team will head West and begin building houses. Those folks will be led by Rick Bradley, Dean Kapenga, Paul Schab and Freddie Turrentine. (Actually, Samuel Acan and I will be leading this team but it makes those four feel good to see their name in lights!) Tony Gettig will be capturing everything on camera. Jan Kapenga will be cooking supper. All set!
Pray for us. Hopefully we can recap the day in another report tonight.