Medicine anyone!?

Gail Denton and group got here tonight and are counting pills and getting ready to set up a medical clinic tomorrow! Please pray for us! We need GOD to watch over us as we travel, as we set up clinic in 3 different villiages, treat people, and as the team prays for each one, pray that they would be changed from darkness to the light of JESUS CHRIST!

JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

what happens at Taller Del Maestro

Sometimes what we see and what is really happening are 2 totally different things! We had a great week with the group who came to us from East Heights Baptist church Tupelo, MS. They painted, picked up rocks, played with kids, preached GODS Word, all in 6 days! They had a great trip here and life changing for all of us! They blessed us the last night of their time here by washing our feet a very humbling thing, we felt very unworthy, but as JESUS washed the feet of his disciples the night before he was betrayed, so these precious people washed our feet, the night before going back to their work and school. They took time to bless us in this way, something no one else had ever done! Thank you LORD for these precious little ones, may they feel YOUR HOLY PRESCENCE with them always!

Some of these youth had already been feeling a tug on their hearts to serve GOD in a greater capacity than before. While here in Costa Rica GOD confirmed to them each one in a different way that JESUS wanted more of them, and that HE was the one who would do it! LET JESUS take your life today to mold you into the person HE wants you to be, giving you the freedom to choose, make the right choice today!

JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Blessed by the LORD JESUS!

This picture was taken a few weeks ago with team dr Audrey Richards! Thank you to each of our teams who have made the trip down here, even in the midst of family issues, crisis of belief many times, but GOD has blessed you for your willingness to serve JESUS! Thank you for coming and for being faithful in all things to our LORD JESUS!

Wanted to introduce you to the newest member of our family! Yes it may just look like a weed eater to you, but,, after working for 3 years with a machete, it is a long awaited for reward for Franklin!

James got to use it first Saturday morning. Now Miguel has a full time job trying to keep after 5 acres of grass, plus if he has spare time there are 25 more acres of bushwhacking to do! See the guys in the background, since we just have one weed eater they are still stuck with the machete part time!!! Praise the LORD for strong backs and willing hearts to work! PRAY for these 3 guys as they work Miguel, Jon and Bolivar. And Franklin as he guides them and works on getting this camp center ready for campers to learn about JESUS, to ask HIM in their hearts and live for JESUS forever! Amen!

JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Thank you for giving to the LORD!

Thank you to the many of you who have given in order for us to be here on the mission field! We complete 7 years here in Costa Rica this August, and 10 years in missions! We have enjoyed our mission experience immensly and know GOD has so much more in store for us.

I wanted to update the blogs below a little bit. Somehow the settings have gotten changed on our computer and it no longer allows me to type in y blog before sending it off into syber space!

So,,, update on whats been happening.

There was a team of 9 people here with us for a week from East Heights Baptist Church, tupelo, MS. They were a huge blessing to us and many people here in Costa Rica!

They arrived last Thursday. Friday they worked here at the camp center. Some worked on the camp kitchen finishing walls and painting. We also got stuff ready to do a mini back yard bible club Saturday. They made a banner and prepared games for the bibleclub. Saturday morning early we drove to San Jose, to a villiage named Guizaros. This began as a small squatters villiage, and now has around 600-1000 people living there, lots of children! We went to volunteer at a soup kitchen there in Guizaros. There were 50 children who came to the soup kitchen Saturday. They range in ages from 3-14. They feed these children every day, and saturdays they hold a Sunday School for the children. The team baked cupcakes and decorated a banner to leave at the soup kitchen to decorate the place a little! We were able to share GODS Word with these little ones, paint a craft with them and love them and pray for them! Saturday night one of the young men preached in our church service and 2 people made professions of faith at the call to repentance!

This group also built a retaining wall behind our church where the river was eating away at the banks! They worked 7 hours selflessly giving, working for our LORD JESUS!!! What a blessing to our church, now we can feel more secure in this building knowing the river has been held at bay!

The last night they wanted to have a special ceremony for us, to pray for us and asked if they could wash our feet! WOW! This was new experience for us and whata blessing to see each of them kneel down as I imagine JESUS did on HIS last night before HIS betrayal! What an honor to be the recievers of such a wonderful service! Thank you team east Heights baptist and to each person who made it possible for this to come about!

JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Beautiful feet?

JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Building realtionships and a retaining wall!

JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Team East Heights Baptist

JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

This is your day!

GOD is so good and gives us everything we have NEED of to live and function!
Now many times when we think we can't take any more is when the STUFF of life comes pouring down on us! This past week was a prime example!
In the life of a missionary sometimes when we least expect it GOD stretches us in ways we didn't even know we needed it!
Like when you start back to the gym after many weeks of vacation from exersize, and the next morning you wake up with muscles you didn't even know were there because they hurt!
We traveled some 300 miles this past week with Audrey Richards and a team of students/drs and helpers. We had an evangelist and his wife from Panama with us, translators who come from Canada and Europe, and our pastor Olger and his wife Guiselle, a truly international mission team, for GODS glory!
The team saw around 420 people for a complete eye exam and free eye drops and glasses. As they arrived to the airport we picked them up right on time this time, sorry for the wait last time Audrey!
We came to the pulperia where we had left the van parked, and I realized Franklin had both our keys and was about an hour or so behind us! Thankfully we had called a taxi tohelp trasfer people to the camp center and Jon our helper was there with the truck, we made it home just fine, Praise the LORD!
It had rained so much that the road in places was a slippery mess!
The travel itself left us worn out, and the heat in Upala was nearly unbearable! The first day we set up clinic inside the church there in Buenas Aires de Upala. About an hour into the clinic it was so stuffy you could hardly breath inside the church! Franklin set up some fans helping to move the air, and thankfully after awhile clouds covered the sun a little, GOD giving us a little break! We ate fresh fried fish, rice, salad, and plantains, and other things we were unsure what it was, the meals were dilisioso!!! As we traveled back home on Wednesday we found out it had been raining, raining here at the camp!
The road was a muddy mess again, and treacherous as we slipped and slid our way down toward the camp! The team was great and they didn't complain at all! Although I am sure they were thinking where are we going and what have we gotten ourselves into!
Our 3rd day clinic was about 2 hours from the camp in the mountains and as we set up the team was thankful and said several times, what a nice breeze! Makes you thankful, after the 100 degree heat in Upala! The last day of clinic the group was able to serve in a squatters villiage here close to puriscal. It was ablessing, lots of little children, muddy feet and all! Thankfully the team was ready with stickers, silly bands, and pencils, the kids were elated!
We shared the gospel of JESUS CHRIST with each person coming through the clinic and gave out tracts and prayed with them! What a blessing! Thankfully GOD had a plan in all our travels and all the mud and heat, people gave their lives to JESUS, and even some miracle healings, praise be to our LORD JESUS! AMEN! Thank you for praying for us! We know without your prayers and support we would be unable to keep ministering to the people of Costa Rica. Thank you!

JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Thank you Audrey and team!

Do you need your eyes checked?<<< JESUS te ama-JESUS loves you>>> was a phrase I heard over and over as this team of miracle workers gave away a complete eye exam and eye drops and glasses to over 400 people, in the NAME OF JESUS!

Thank you, for giving to the LORD i am a life that was changed!

JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James