The team’s last day was pretty packed – morning devotional, ministry at the dump where everyone there was served a piping hot breakfast, finishing four houses with the concrete and then finishing the houses and continuing to work on the special ministry project out West.  Good strong day of ministry to finish up the trip!  Praise the Lord!

All of the team minus two left for the airport at 8:30PM last night.  Their flight left at 12:20AM and they are now sitting in Atlanta waiting on their connections.  Once everyone has gotten to the home airports, I will update again.

Thanks for praying!

Our Tuesday began just like every other day of this trip has with the only exception being that our preacher yesterday morning was Pastor Benjamin Labriel.  I am thankful for Pastor Ben and his family.

Kirk Lightfield, Tyler Compagner & Jeff DeJonge went above and beyond the call of duty as they drove to San Cristobal yesterday morning leaving GRACE Mountain at 4:30AM in order to get the necessary equipment for a block party.  As a matter of fact, Kirk, Devan Hoekstra and Colin Prins left at 4:30AM this morning returning the equipment.  Folks with those type attitudes are one of the huge reasons this team is such a blessing.

Ross Genzink left GRACE Mountain at 4:30AM in order to take Samuel & Manuel out West in order for them to lay blocks for our special project.  Ross came back for our devotion before taking another crew back with him to join those guys in that work.

The rest of the team went back to San Martin where four more houses were built and seven houses received concrete.  Three families had poured their own concrete when the team (concrete crew) did not show on Monday.  So we need to pour concrete in four more houses today and finish probably eight total.  All of that will get done this morning, Lord willing.  This team has done a nice job on the concrete especially considering that Samuel & Manuel were with us two days and one day respectively.

Kirk Lightfield and Kenny Cooper coordinated a block party at a church in San Martin.  Hundreds of children, tons of candy, and lots of laughter.  The guard was missing on the cotton candy machine so you should have seen Pastor Joe, Katie, Big E and others as they quickly became blue smurfs!

We had our team share time last night after supper.  It was not a long share time but it was special.  Everyone on the team except for my brother, Freddie, and me are scheduled to fly out tonight (tomorrow morning) at like 12:20AM.  They are all on the same flight.

Pray for us to have a really good last day as we will do ministry at the dump, dedicate the houses and continue on the special ministry project.  Thank you for checking on us.

Monday was a full day for the team and, as almost always, it began with our devotional time in the upper room.  Again, this time is special to me and we never rush through it regardless of what the day may hold.  So, we spend at least an hour or so in worship and the Word.  What a neat way to begin each day.

Dr. Rex, the Beasley boys, Juan Marcos & James Mareno led our musical worship and they did their usual nice job.  Dr. Rex Looney then shared a message with us from the Word.

A group then headed to Casa Alleluya to rock babies.  Another group stayed at the mission house to get ready for the distribution, set up for the evening meal as we had guests coming and then worked at the feeding center with Lazaro, Glendy & Anna.  Three teams went and built six more houses.  The final few folks made their way West to continue working on the special ministry project.

The folks who went to Casa Alleluya along with those stayed at the feeding center made their way to the village in the afternoon to help the building crews do a food/clothes distribution to two hundred families.  I am told that went extremely well.

Our evening meal was something as we had ninety plus folks in the mission house – wow!  It was great having Pastor David and his team from 1st Baptist Millington, TN join us.  Really good fellowship.

Today is going to be full day as the team will build the final four houses, attempt to get concrete in fourteen houses (probably not happening) and then will host a block party for the folks in San Martin.  A group will also be out West working on the special ministry project.  So, prayers will be appreciated.

Thank you for checking on this team!

We were very blessed to begin our Sunday by having Pastor David Leavell and thirteen folks from the First Baptist Church of Millington, TN join us for our morning devotion time.  Pastor Ben Labriel brought them up to GRACE Mountain.  After Dr. Rex and the Beasley boys led our musical worship, Pastor David brought us a good word from the Word.  There were at least seventy five folks in the upper room – it was great!  To God be the glory!

As soon as our morning devotion was over (our devotions are basically always at least an hour long – certainly one of the most important parts of the trips I lead), the GRACE folks loaded up and headed up the road for another service.  We went to a water park and had our morning worship under a pavilion.  We joined the GRACE Community Church for this special service.  Once again, Dr. Rex and the Beasley boys led the musical worship and then Pastor Joe David Bailey brought us a word from the Word.  The pavilion was packed and probably ten to fifteen folks had to stand the entire service.

The worship concluded with me joining Pastor Lazaro Suruy in the upper swimming pool to baptize four folks.  A couple of them were saved four years ago, one was saved when I preached at the GRACE Community Church in February of this year and the other was saved two months ago.  The newest convert has a story to tell of God’s amazing grace.  What a privilege to observe this ordinance with our daughter church.  God is good!

Off to Antigua the team went for a delicious meal at Las Antorchas and then they had all afternoon to spend in Antigua.  Everyone was on their own for supper so there was no rush to get back to GRACE Mountain.

As I was sitting here doing some work this evening, I could hear constant laughter coming from the upper room.  Good fellowship.

Tomorrow will see us doing Casa Alleluya, the feeding center, building houses, the special ministry project, and a distribution of food and clothes to two hundred families.  Pastor David and the fine folks from 1st Millington have accepted an invitation to be our guests for supper so we look forward to that time of fellowship.

Thanks for checking on us.  Thanks for praying!