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.