Why no Saturday night blog?  Suffice it to say that I walked in as the clock was approaching 11:30PM.  Knew folks would not be awake back in the States.  Had something come up this morning that caused me to be off GRACE Mountain so I am just now getting to my laptop.

The team had a really good Saturday.  Four more houses were built, two more received concrete and eight are now completely finished.  The teams were limited in how long they could stay in the village because we wanted them to go to Casa Alleluya which they did.

There was one van full of folks who went West and worked on another special ministry project.  Those folks got back to the mission house around 8:30PM last night partly because there were three separate accidents on the highway.  At least seven ambulances passed us heading to those scenes.

Three of our guys were in the blue truck and they got back to the mission house around 10:00PM as a tire completely fell off of the truck.  How did they know they had lost a tire?  When it passed them, hit a wall on the other side of the road and then rolled back to the truck!

Pastor Joe David brought us a good word from the Word yesterday morning.  Our musical worship was great.  This morning we have a special guest preacher.  More about that later.

Thank you for praying.  Thank you for taking time to read this entry.

Good day for the team.  We began the morning with some really great musical worship led by Rex Looney, the Beasley boys, Juan Marcos and James Mareno.  Really good stuff!  Then Dr. Mike Clark shared a word from the Word.  I really appreciate Dr. Mike & Miss Dottie taking the time out of their full schedules to come be with us.  Again, really good stuff!

The team spent the day building in San Martin.  It was a pretty tough ride into that village and then up to our building sites.  Eight houses were built with six of them receiving concrete.

As I write this entry, the team is over in the mission house enjoying supper and a time of fellowship.

We will just hit the rewind button tomorrow and basically do the same thing.

Thanks for checking on us.  Thanks for praying!

It is approaching 11:00PM in Guatemala and the final twenty two members of our team have now arrived safe and sound at the mission house.  We thank God for His protection.

As I write this entry, I am watching Fuego put on a pretty good fire show.  Always amazes me!

Thanks for checking on this team.  Pray for us!

Travel day!  Fifty three folks are making their way from Grand Rapids, Huntsville, Birmingham and Mobile today to join the three of us already here to make up our final GRACE team of the Summer.  Thirty one of them are on the morning flights and are scheduled to arrive in Guatemala City around noon.  The other twenty two are taking an afternoon flight and are scheduled to arrive in Guatemala City around 7:30PM.  Please pray for safety in travel for the team today.

Thank you for checking on this team.  Pray fervently.  More updates to come!

Blessings!

As I write this entry it is a little after 2:00AM on Saturday morning.  All of our team members have now arrived home safe and sound.  I brought up the rear arriving in Mobile around 8:00AM yesterday morning.  We thank God for traveling mercies.  (Disclaimer – I have not heard from Pastor BJ but figure “no news is good news!”)

Pastor Keith and his crew missed their connecting flight in Atlanta due to the flight from Guatemala City being late.  So, they rented two vehicles, drove to the Birmingham airport to retrieve their luggage and then got on their church bus to head home.  They arrived home around 1:00AM on Friday morning.  I have communicated with PK and their attitudes were wonderful!  Can you say flexible?

Looking back on the trip, God was so faithful to this team.  He did a work in the Guatemalan people but He also did a work in the team members.  I have been home less than twenty four hours and have already had thirty folks sign up for the 2017 trip – wow!

Again, thanks to all who prayed, gave, and kept up with this team.  You were a huge part of all that God did!  Blessings!