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Jesus bless you!

This is a beautiful day here in Costa Rica! Hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving day with your family or whoever was blessed with your presence! God has created us in HIS image! You look a lot like GOD!!!!

This picture was taken by Dalberth, one of our youth here at Arbol DE Vida church. He has worked with us here at the shop in the TALLER DEL MEASTRO GLOBAL OUTREACH when we are making things out of wood. He loves working with his hands but more than that he likes to take pictures! Pray for this young man, GOD has a great call on his life. He is hoping to take some training to be a photographer. He is finishing high school going at night to like a GED class. He hopes to have his high school diploma in the spring next year.

Well we didn't eat turkey as most of you may have yesterday, we went to our pastors house and they had steak, and of course rice and beans! guess that is just as good!

We hope to eat turkey with Claudette Franklin's mom next week. She and Emmett will be here next Tuesday to be with us for a little more than a week.

The kids are looking forward to having Grama here with them for a little while.

Mary was exempt from most of her tests so she has had vacation this week! James is off today as it is teachers day!

They will be through with tests next week and after that just mainly parties etc. then their last day for this year is Dec 18. They will start back to school then the first week in Feb LORD willing.

Thank you for praying for us and giving that we can be here in Costa Rica serving our LORD JESUS!

If you would like to make a year end donation it would be much appreciated, all donations can be made out to Franklin Turner and sent to

GLOBAL OUTREACH P.O. Box 1 Tupelo, MS 38802 or online at http://www.globaloutreach.org/

Blessings on your day keep your eyes on JESUS! -Evelyn

FUZZY OR ELEGANT?

GOD is not slow in keeping HIS promises as some understand slowness! 2 Peter 3:9

HE keeps HIS promises in HIS time in HIS way, the best way!

Fuzzy or elegantly dressed?

We had both this morning! First of all I found a furry non friend in our bathroom!! I squashed him quickly!

As I was hanging out wash in the beautiful sunshine this morning I saw a toucan. He was gorgeous!

I called Franklin and went to call Mary as she hadn't left for school yet. But by the time she got outside it had flown away, and 2 seconds later I look up and there were 5 toucans in the tree right close to me!

What a beautiful sight!Mary got to see them this time! They were wonderful to look at, but of course they flew away quickly! It was as though GOD was telling us it is going to be OK, look at my creation they are well dressed, and eat the delicacies of my beautiful creation every meal.

Don't worry about what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing!

Look at the birds of the air for they neither sow nor reap; yet your Heavenly FATHER feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Matthew 6:25-26

These beautiful birds are well taken care of so why worry GOD is able and will do as HE has promised to take care of our every need! So the saying we have heard for years has it's reasons, don't worry be happy, IN CHRIST!

JESUS bless you today!

-Evelyn

Jesus is my strength

These are some flowers in our yard!
Good morning,

Blessings from Costa Rica to your house! We take for granted so many daily blessings, it is so true, we don't know what we have till it is gone!

We are thankful for our family and for our church. God has truely blessed us with uncountable blessings!

Mary and James both went to school this morning at 7. Their school schedule leaves a lot to be desired, I am thankful for our vehicles! I really don't know how some parents do it running up and down with kids! And sometimes becuase they don't have a phone the teacher is unable to let them know of changes!

So today count your many blessings name them one by one, you won't have time to be sad or troubled by what you don't have!

Blessings in Jesus, Evelyn

Talent Night at Arbol De Vida!

We had a packed house for talent night! We had 25 groups participate with songs, plays and coreogrophy! A few from our church and several other churches also participated! It was a blessing to see so many youth serving JESUS by practicing and singing and doing plays for HIS glory!

thank you for your prayers for us as we work among the people groups of Costa Rica!

If you would like to make a special end of the year donation towards the work we are doing it would be much appreciated! All donations can be made to Franklin Turner to Global Outreach, P.O. Box 1 Tupleo MS. 38802.

May the Lord bless you and keep you in HIS care today!

Love in JESUS, Evelyn

TRAVELING!

Good windy after noon to you! This has been quite a windy day here and the Ticos are saying, Ya llego la Navidad! Christmas is here! Because the weather has changed and that means rainy season is ending and dry season is upon us, closer to Christmas!

This is a picture of the bus we take when we go out of the country to Nicaragua to renew our visas. We know these busses very well as we look at the inside of it 9-12 hours ech time we travel! That is one way! Praise the LORD HE has kept us safe as we traveled this past week and we are happy to be back home!

We have been busy this week can hardly believe it is already weekend again! Seems like time goes faster day by day! We are getting geared up for Talent Night at our church. This is a fun event we do several times a year. Youth and adults alike prepare a special whether music or playing an instrument or doing a play, and we select judges from among us and each participant is judged and the best 3 receive a prize! It is a fun time for the kids and everyone is asked to invite a friend as it is an outreach into our community here in Tabarcia. It is at our church Arbol de Vida Saturday night starting at 5 pm.

Thank you for your prayers, we made another successful trip out to Nicaragua, and our visas are renewed for 3 months again! Praise the LORD! We hope by next year possibly in the next few months to have a visa for a little longer time more permanent! Pray for this process!
Have a great week and tell someone about JESUS today!
In Jesus name, Evelyn