The Lord blessed and we had a good day of ministry today.  Our day began with breakfast prepared by two or three of our men.  That was followed by our morning devotion with the musical worship being led by Kristen DeYoung accompanied by Miriam Mast on the guitar and keyboard.  Those girls did an awesome job!

We then traveled about three miles from the mission house into Chimaltenango to begin building houses.  We had four teams and were able to accomplish much as we completely finished five houses and got three others finished up to the point of waiting on the concrete to be poured.  This team is pretty incredible as we actually knocked off around 3:30 – 4:00PM because they worked so efficiently.  The houses are well constructed too. 

A group of our folks came back around 2:30PM to host a VBS at Palabra Viva beginning at 3:30PM.  They had about 100 children attend the service and reported that it went very well. 

Lorraine Brouwer, Shari Compagner, & Jan Kapenga worked in the kitchen all day and had a wonderful supper prepared for us.  We were joined by about 25 guests and everyone enjoyed the meal and the fellowship. 

Mario, Amuy, Katherina, & Josiah Monroy were four of our supper guests.  I was on the kitchen clean up team today so Mario & Amuy waited until I had finished for us to talk.  They are a sweet, godly couple/family and are believing God is leading them to do missions work in Spain.  We had a good time of discussion. 

We have internet service but for some reason our phone is not working.  So, this becomes the main source of communication for our folks back home.  Again, I plan on blogging nightly so keep up with us through this means. 

I hope you will be in church somewhere tomorrow.  Thanks for praying for us!