Yesterday James finished his school work around 11 and we helped Franklin in the shop getting doors ready to hang in Cabin Hope. Our hopes are high and it's like we are sitting right on the edge of a great divide, ready for GOD to lay that bridge down so we can open Camp Taller del Maestro for the campers to come running to JESUS!
So at 12:30 James and I left to go to his dentist appointment. He has had braces now for 6 months and the dentist told us he is doing great, his teeth have been moving and they are all in a nice straight line already! "Needs a little more brushing though", he told James!
Then we traveled on to Tabarcia for James drum lessons. He is doing well on drums and they hope to have the presentation soon at a church service!
So while James was at drum lessons I went to our hair dresser to get a haircut. She and I were the only ones in the shop and we talk about a variety of things from our kids to people in general. She told me of an experience that she still was almost in tears over a day or so before. A couple came in to the shop to have their 2 sons hair cut, the boys were around 8 & 13 or so. The boys were not happy about hair cuts and the parents threatening, and the hair dresser in the middle! The oldest went first and he had no say in how his hair was to be cut, so then it was the younger ones turn. He looks at Marlen and says, I'm not going back to school! She tries to make light of it and says, honey, who's been mean to you at school? He said, no, it's nothing at school, I hate the way she wants my hair cut!
The parents by this time are mad and the tension in the room is unbearable, when the dad gets up and jerks the boy by the ear till she said with tears in her eyes says, "I thought he'd jerk it out!" The boy is crying and she is still trying to finish the haircut so they can go on, and she tells the dad, you know you could do harm to his ear, I know as parents we must correct our children but with care, so the dad comes back with, "I will jerk the other ear to match it", more directed to the boy than to Marlen. She said, "I was never so glad when someone left the shop as when they walked out", then went in the other room and cried!" thankfully no one else just her daughter was there at the time, so she was able to recuperate before she had to cut someone else's hair.
I didn't ask if they were Christians, you see as we visit I share Christ with Marlen, as of yet she hasn't confessed JESUS as her Saviour, but the sad thing is many if these things she sees is from parents who go to church, profess Christianity, but leave a different impression on those "In the world around them" What testimony do we have to show JESUS to those around us?
As I thought about this conversation this morning, I asked GOD, why? Why so much injustice, why do you let children suffer, it's not their fault, it's not that they are bad!
BUT, GODS grace and love is sufficient! Let us be peacemakers, loving each other and those less fortunate, teachers who guide out of a heart of love, helping these who are doing wrong, as well as those who wrong has been done to, helping, healing, the LORD showed me my words should be like a healing balm, medicine for the hurting. So today as we go out, if we see injustice, let's don't just turn and look away, the least we can do is say a prayer for them, and if we can give a word of peace and love! It may change the situation and GOD will be glorified!
JESUS BLESS YOU!
Franklin Evelyn Mary & James
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
with Love from Costa Rica!
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, 4 always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, 5 for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now, 6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ; 7 just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace. 8 For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ Philippians 1:3-8
Just read this scripture and praying and thinking about each of you who have stood with us, as we minister, thank you! GOD is good all the time!
We have been busy about the work here trying to be diligent, because we know the day will come when we can no longer work!
Yesterday James finished school around noon and went to help Franklin a few hours. then we went to town to pay our taxes and check on the insurance. While we were in the municipality building to pay our taxes, I asked the lady where you sign in if the engineer for road work Mr Jorge Pedalta was in. She said no she didn't think he was but that I should sign in and maybe I could wait for him. So
Franklin and I sign in, and about that time mr Jorge walks in! WOW! GOD is good! So we followed him to his office, and sat down to talk to him and he called his assistant to also join us. We visited and told him we had left a letter back in December for help on the main road coming from Puriscal down here close to the last houses on Bajo Cerdas road. How was that going did they consider helping us this year, what could be done, would they work on the road? He remembered us coming in before and said yes they want to help. So the assistant got out the calendar and wrote down an appointment for April 8 to meet out here at the point we talked about and see what we can do about it and work together to help fix the road for the good of the whole community.
So GOD set up that appointment, it is hard to get an audience with Mr Pedalta because he has a lot of roads to see about the whole county, and this is a small community! BUT GOD has much grace on us and gave us the appointment right there! PRAY for this! Now our road, interior that we had prayed about, it is open and we are able to use it instead of having to ford that he hill! But this a part farther out that needs attention soon! Pray that they will put this as an urgent need, so we won't lose the road that connects us to Pozos and also to be able to go out to Puriscal.
Thank you for your support and prayers for us as we minister here in Costa Rica! GOD bless you as you minister where GOD has you!
JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James
Just read this scripture and praying and thinking about each of you who have stood with us, as we minister, thank you! GOD is good all the time!
We have been busy about the work here trying to be diligent, because we know the day will come when we can no longer work!
Yesterday James finished school around noon and went to help Franklin a few hours. then we went to town to pay our taxes and check on the insurance. While we were in the municipality building to pay our taxes, I asked the lady where you sign in if the engineer for road work Mr Jorge Pedalta was in. She said no she didn't think he was but that I should sign in and maybe I could wait for him. So
Franklin and I sign in, and about that time mr Jorge walks in! WOW! GOD is good! So we followed him to his office, and sat down to talk to him and he called his assistant to also join us. We visited and told him we had left a letter back in December for help on the main road coming from Puriscal down here close to the last houses on Bajo Cerdas road. How was that going did they consider helping us this year, what could be done, would they work on the road? He remembered us coming in before and said yes they want to help. So the assistant got out the calendar and wrote down an appointment for April 8 to meet out here at the point we talked about and see what we can do about it and work together to help fix the road for the good of the whole community.
So GOD set up that appointment, it is hard to get an audience with Mr Pedalta because he has a lot of roads to see about the whole county, and this is a small community! BUT GOD has much grace on us and gave us the appointment right there! PRAY for this! Now our road, interior that we had prayed about, it is open and we are able to use it instead of having to ford that he hill! But this a part farther out that needs attention soon! Pray that they will put this as an urgent need, so we won't lose the road that connects us to Pozos and also to be able to go out to Puriscal.
Thank you for your support and prayers for us as we minister here in Costa Rica! GOD bless you as you minister where GOD has you!
JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Walk in missions
Good Morning!
I have been having trouble with our blog and haven't been able to post pictures! Thank you for keeping us in prayer and for your faithful support of our ministry and daily need here as we minister in Costa Rica!
GOD has been good and much has been happening!
James is doing well in school, he continues his daily lessons in the Abeka program, we are so thankful for his home school!
When we moved to the mission field 14 years ago this wasn't much of a concern because our kids were little and didn't have a need of school. I homeschooled Mary off and on throughout the years we were in Language school then in Belize for 3 years. We were in the states for 9 months in 2003, our oldest son had a very bad accident and my Mother was very sick with cancer and died. So during this time in the states James went to preschool where I worked, then to Kindergarten. Mary was able to go to 4th grade for a few months and got some much needed basics that would help her during the rest of her studies!
Then we moved full time to Costa Rica with the vision to build a camp & Training center. We had lost a lot of the Spanish we'd learned in 2001, and our kids hadn't kept up the Spanish either. So we decided for them to have the language of the people we'd minister to we put them in the public school system. This was a wonderful place for them to spend the next 8 years! Mary & James are both completely bilingual with no accent. Mary was already in 4th grade by this time and it was very hard for her, thankfully GOD provided friends in our church to help her along the way and she is very determined to learn and do well! She graduated in December 2012 from high school, with a fraction of the kids who started out in high school. Many drop out but many got all the way tot he end and didn't pas the last tests to be able to graduate. But Mary did, we praise the LORD for that!
Now Mary has almost finished her first year in college, and is doing well! She was able to take the CLEP test for Spanish and was able to get 12 hours of college Spanish! She is majoring in Spanish education with minor in music, which has been a love of Mary's for her lifetime! She loves art and music, a GOD GIFT for sure!
Now James went to school until 7th grade when he went to high school it just didn't work for him,(they don't have middle school here) so looking for options to continue his studies my sister suggested we look into Abeka. It has been wonderful for James. He misses having friends, but we are thankful he is here at home under our supervision! Many of his friends are now not coming to church and want nothing to do with GOD, therefore causing a rift between them and James. He prays for their salvation and sees what they do and is sad that they don't choose JESUS!
GOD has a plan for each of us and we are thankful for the plan HE has shown us for our family and our children. Thank you for your continued prayers as we seek to serve JESUS and lead our family in GODLY ways, living out what we preach daily! JESUS bless you!
JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James
I have been having trouble with our blog and haven't been able to post pictures! Thank you for keeping us in prayer and for your faithful support of our ministry and daily need here as we minister in Costa Rica!
GOD has been good and much has been happening!
James is doing well in school, he continues his daily lessons in the Abeka program, we are so thankful for his home school!
When we moved to the mission field 14 years ago this wasn't much of a concern because our kids were little and didn't have a need of school. I homeschooled Mary off and on throughout the years we were in Language school then in Belize for 3 years. We were in the states for 9 months in 2003, our oldest son had a very bad accident and my Mother was very sick with cancer and died. So during this time in the states James went to preschool where I worked, then to Kindergarten. Mary was able to go to 4th grade for a few months and got some much needed basics that would help her during the rest of her studies!
Then we moved full time to Costa Rica with the vision to build a camp & Training center. We had lost a lot of the Spanish we'd learned in 2001, and our kids hadn't kept up the Spanish either. So we decided for them to have the language of the people we'd minister to we put them in the public school system. This was a wonderful place for them to spend the next 8 years! Mary & James are both completely bilingual with no accent. Mary was already in 4th grade by this time and it was very hard for her, thankfully GOD provided friends in our church to help her along the way and she is very determined to learn and do well! She graduated in December 2012 from high school, with a fraction of the kids who started out in high school. Many drop out but many got all the way tot he end and didn't pas the last tests to be able to graduate. But Mary did, we praise the LORD for that!
Now Mary has almost finished her first year in college, and is doing well! She was able to take the CLEP test for Spanish and was able to get 12 hours of college Spanish! She is majoring in Spanish education with minor in music, which has been a love of Mary's for her lifetime! She loves art and music, a GOD GIFT for sure!
Now James went to school until 7th grade when he went to high school it just didn't work for him,(they don't have middle school here) so looking for options to continue his studies my sister suggested we look into Abeka. It has been wonderful for James. He misses having friends, but we are thankful he is here at home under our supervision! Many of his friends are now not coming to church and want nothing to do with GOD, therefore causing a rift between them and James. He prays for their salvation and sees what they do and is sad that they don't choose JESUS!
GOD has a plan for each of us and we are thankful for the plan HE has shown us for our family and our children. Thank you for your continued prayers as we seek to serve JESUS and lead our family in GODLY ways, living out what we preach daily! JESUS bless you!
JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James
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