Welcome home Ms. Nancy!

Ms. Nancy came to Costa Rica in February, and has been a blessing to our family as we minister the WORD of GOD to the people of Costa Rica! Nancy helps us with James and Mary when they get out of class early and we can't make it tot own to pick them up. She is also involved in her church in Puriscal where she lives. We are thankful for each person who has come alongside us to serve our LORD JESUS CHRIST beside us. Thank you for your prayers and support of our ministry!

This is what was happening outside Ms. Nancys house the day she moved in a few weeks ago. She had been living in a small apartment, but now she has found a house to live in. BUT, as we brought her furniture to the house she's renting, there were 2 different crews pouring concrete and fixing a drainpipe right infront of the house we were helping her move into! So we had to manuever around all this, yes sometimes it is a circus here! Keeps things interesting!

Ms Nancy in her new kitchen, she is settled in, and is taking spanish class each Monday to try and communicate with each person GOD gives her! To bring them to the feet of JESUS, their lives will be changed from darkness to the light of life in JESUS CHRIST!

JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

James at school!

James' class was in charge of the "acto civico" for independence day, September 15! One of the class led the ceremony, and several of the kids had poems etc. and these little girls pictured here danced to typical music! James watched!

So After the ceremonies were overwith i snapped a quick picture of James with his wonderful teacher, Ms Dorita! She has been an angel! Please pray for her and for James and his classmates as they finish out the rest of this year together, and move on to high school next year!

JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Takes teamwork!

GOD has given you a special job, one only you can do!

GODS fingerprints are in your hands, and HE wants to use you to bless others, that is HIS MASTER PLAN!

While some may deem picking up rocks a lowly job, unworthy, no skills involved, no glory, yes there isn't much glory in picking up rocks. BUT it is a necessary thing, if we are to build this Camp Center.

One rock at a time, one piece at a time, this will be a place of restoration and joy to many people. Together we can do this!

Thank you for coming alongside to PRAY, GO and GIVE!

Mixing concrete and passing it a little at a time in buckets to build a wall, there isn't much glory in it, it hurts your back, it makes your arms sore!

BUT it is needed, in order to make the walls strong, in order to build our character!!

If you think about it, many of the menial things you and I do on a daily basis aren't very glorious! But in order to give our Saviour JESUS CHRIST the glory we must; do our homework, cook the meals, pick up rocks, build those walls, do our very best at each small part of the puzzle that belongs to our time and place, so those coming after us can build on what we started!

The finished product is whole families, children through senior citizens, who know JESUS! If they love HIM that's worth more than any glorious job or anything in this life! Amen!

JESUS loves you written on the wall...

These are children at a soup kitchen we visited in June. These children will in a few years be adults, what have we built that these little hands can build on as they grow? Lets be good stewards of our time, lets do this together, PRAYing, GIVing, and GOing, into all the world, starting right where you are this minute reading these lines!

GO with courage and joy in your heart, knowing that even though the world may never know you did what you could, JESUS does, and thats what matters! In the bible many of the people mentioned never knew they would be remembered! But they did what they could for JESUS sake!

If you meet me and forget who I am you have lost nothing, but if you meet JESUS and forget who HE is, you have lost everything!

Have a blessed week in the name of JESUS, strive to go higher, to do more, to listen better, to reach out a touch someone in the LOVE OF JESUS this week!

JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Happy Birthday JAMES!

James, Happy Birthday! Love you very very much!

Sunday afternoon we had invited James Sunday School class to come celebrate with him! What a day! They ran and played all afternoon, stopping only long enough to wolf down hamburgers then back out to play! There were 7 boys along with James all about 3 months apart in age! What a blessing friends are!

They made a human table, and 3 floor tower! We were thankful to initiate our new home in this way, a place that our children can play with their friends, and we can minister to them in the Name of JESUS!

Mary and some of her friends hid a treasure hunt, and the boys ran all over the camp looking for the clues! In the end they had to come back to the house and the girls had gotten gift bags ready for them with candy and cookies!

JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Childrens day!

Today the children of Costa Rica celebrate thier day! It is childrens day here in Costa Rica! many children left their uniforms at home a donned shorts and t-shirts, and teachers planned special activities for their students! Some schools had even rented inflatables and clowns to celebrate! James school was having games and special foods, and he was excited to get to wear his PE uniform, gray shirt and navy blue shorts!

It is true, JESUS LOVES the little children, how could we do any less! He says the kingdom of GOD belongs to the children! Hug your child today, tell them you love them, tomorrow may be too late! Let's be proactive and love the children GOD has put in our midst and tell them we love them and JESUS LOVES THEM TOO!

Thank you for giving to tell the good news, GOD loves each and every person and gave HIS SON JESUS CHRIST to build a bridge between us so we could reach HEAVEN! Thank you for praying for us as we work here in Costa Rica! Together we can reach those least thought of, those who may otherwise never have heard the Gospel of JESUS!

JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Mission work

Backporch! Here is where the action is on just about a daily basis, we let the dogs out and they come get a bite to eat, muddy shoes are on the rack, and paintbrushes along with lots of other things are in the sink! A normal backporch huh!

Franklin has been taking the backhoe apart! It has quit WALKIN' so he took it apart thanks to Ricky Tate we'll be able to get the parts and get this machine back together and ready to dig up the world as he puts it! Franklin will be building a road in order to make the entry to the camp center a little easier, and then he has a project to do a lot for our pastor and a group of men who will build a small sports complex!

Thank you JESUS for the gift of being able to work for GODS kingdom!

Backhoe guts??!!!!!

JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James