Fuz or thorns?

Good morning from Costa Rica! We took a walk in our yard yesterday evening and to the front gate and around the front of the camp property. We are amazed at how God has provided amazingly and wonderfully for our family and this ministry! 

Thank you for giving to support us as we follow God in building Taller del Maestro camp and Bible training center! 

So in our yard right close to the house we have these trees; they are a palm but look closely at the trunk! It has 2-3 inch spikes all around it in intervals, from bottom to top! 

Even the branches have these spikes on them! It's amazing how God created these trees, they produce fruit called pejibayes. The people boil the fruit it's round, they cut it in half and eat it at coffee time! They have a nutty flavor; James says they taste like dirt! 

Praise The Lord every day and take a walk in your yard; God has created amazing things right outside your doorstep! 

Though from a distance they appear to have Fuz on these trees, a closer look reveals spikes, when I look at these trees it reminds me to give thanks to God through our Lord Jesus, thorns like these were driven into His skull by cruel oppressors but my sin hurts Him more than any thorns ever could have! Help me Lord to repent and turn quickly to You for cleansing so as not to hurt you more by my rebelion! Thank you Lord Jesus for your love for us! 

Camp life!

Thank you for your prayers for our ministry here in Costa Rica! This is what's been happening here! Rebecca a friend of mine asked me to use the parachute this week! She's hosting out reaches to local schools! A church in the states brought this parachute in 2009 and it's been put to good use! Thank you for giving to The Lord! 

This is a view I see daily walking here at camp! The cabins are such a blessing to me personally I love the fact that hundreds of pairs of hands have been used to build these beautiful buildings, not just the physical hands of people who have come to build but each if you who by your prayers have built into Gods kingdom by loving our family along, praying for the teams coming to minister, praying for funds to be brought in as needed, and praying for our safety as we minister in the Name if Jesus! Thank you! 

Basketball game before church!

The team from Thaxton MS got here last night they will be off to church in a few minutes enjoying a little basket ball before church! Thank you to each of you for praying for us and for giving to make this mission possible! 

Camp & Bible training center

Good evening from Costa Rica! These are some pictures I took as I walked this morning! 

So thankful for this place of refuge and retreat from the rest of the world! Thank you for your prayers and support if our work here! 

The dogs accompany me as I walk in the mornings! I enjoy the sounds and catch the occasional toucan flying across! Franklin saw a toucan trying to rob another birds nest today! Then tonight as the darkness was closing in around 5pm 4-5 toucans came flying close to the house into the trees next to the house. One by one they landed in the trees and then one went in a 2 inch hole in a tree, followed by another, they go in beak first, and stick their beak out the hole as they turn around and settle in for the night! 2 toucans in a tiny hole I couldn't imagine how they could fit! Then a third toucan came, landed and tried to go in, teetered back and forth then flew on to another home! Full home! Isn't God amazing! And if The Lord so takes care if the birds arranging beds for each one, how will God not take care if you and me! God loves us much more than the birds, and provides our every need! May The Lord greatly bless you as you serve Him! Peace and love in JESUS, Franklin & Evelyn

Mary's wedding

Mary & Troy were married June 4 2016! This is a picture of Mary on her wedding day braiding niece Skylins hair! They had a beautiful day, even tho it rained it was a wonderful celebration! Thank you to each of you who contributed and prayed for our family during the planning and celebrating Mary's big day! Thank you to each if you who came to celebrate with us! May The Lord bless their marriage with many happy years if pure Joy and Peace in Christ our Lord! 

Journey

Good Morning from MS!
This is a cloudy May morning here in Mississippi! We traveled up to KY to see Skylin our granddaughter and the rest of our families. Skylin will be 3 October 9! She is talking and a bubbly little 2 year old! What a joy to be able to share some time with our family!

We then traveled to visit Evangelical Institute of Greenville, South Carolina.
James is planning to start classes there this fall LORD willing! We are excited about James furthering his education and more than that excited that James wants to minister in the Name of JESUS as a pastor!

EI offers a 2 year Bible training course in preparation for ministry. They are adding another year starting this fall to further help pastors to be prepared to minister! This school was founded by Joseph Carroll who used to minister directly to missionaries on the field in the country they were as they ministered to the people. He founded Evangelical Institute to help ministers before going on the mission field. We were able to sit in on some classes as we visited and were impressed with how they begin and end with prayer, each class and every activity at the school!

We are very thankful for James being accepted into this school and look forward to seeing how GOD will use James to minister to others in the Name of JESUS!

Now we have come to MS to be with Mary and help Mary & Troy prepare for their wedding June 4th. They are excited; they had wedding showers this weekend and have a lot of nice gifts to set up housekeeping!
We are also in the process of James getting his GED in order for him to enter college this fall! He is taking classes at ICC a local community college in Tupelo. They have been a great blessing to James and we would highly recommend this college for seeking higher education to find better jobs!
We will be living at the Global Outreach apartments while we are here in MS.

Franklin and I return to Costa Rica on June 11. We are hoping to have James settled with a job and place to live in Greenville SC before this. If you know someone who would be willing to help James in SC please let us know; our numbers are Franklin 662-231-2306 or Evelyn 270-499-9361 or by email at turnerefmj@gmail.com

Would appreciate your prayers as our family works through each of these details. Pray that we would be sensitive to GODS leading through the Holy Spirit as we minister to our family and the people of Costa Rica.

If you would like to give towards James Bible School you can send your gift to Global Outreach for Franklin & Evelyn Turner (James education) You can either give online at www.globaloutreach.org or you can send a check to Global Outreach P.O. Box 1 Tupelo MS 38802

Thank you so much for standing with us as we minister in JESUS Name in Costa Rica!
JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Youth campers

Good Morning from Costa Rica!
we have had a busy few weeks seems like GOD is moving us forward each week is a new opportunity to stretch us a little more to do GODS will and be who HE wants us to be!
We enjoyed hosting 15 youth and leaders for an Armor of GOD youth retreat! What a blessing to have these young people here at the camp and Bible training center! They live a simple life and are happy with so much less than we are!


We hope to regularly host camps and Bible training seminars this is the reason GOD brought us here to Costa Rica!
We have prepared and are in the process of finishing the construction of the buildings and the landscaping of the camp grounds.
If you'd like to be a part of this process we'd love the help you can call Carolyn Roye at Global Outreach 662-842-4615 she is our teams coordinator she will let you know what dates we have open and she can give personal testimony of the camp she came with a team from her church a few years ago!
Appreciate your prayers for us as we follow GODS call to serve him here in Costa Rica!
May the LORD richly bless you today and always!
JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Raising Cabin Peace

This is cabin peace; this cabin is a double cabin with a kitchen in the front corner. We are raising funds to finish this cabin. The part that's finished will host 20 people overnight comfortably! The second part has the foundation ready! We hope to pour the floor and put the roof on this part before the heavy rains in August 

If you'd like to give to finish building cabin Peace you can send your donation to Global Outreach P. O. Box 1 tupelo MS 38802 or you can give online at www.globaloutreach.org 

Evelyns testimony

Good Afternoon!
Just thought I would share a little about how GOD has worked in my life and how I am where I am today!
I was born in Washington Indiana on June 28 1971. I have 6 brothers and 3 sisters. My family is Amish.
When I was 1 year old we moved from Indiana to Milton, Iowa where I spent the next 19 years. My earliest memories are riding in a buggy in the cold with hot bricks at our feet to keep from freezing! I went to Amish Private School starting in 1st grade at 6 years old. My friend Mary Ann and I were the only ones in our grade. One of my earliest memories was our teacher Allan in 1st grade. I remember we got play a lot and color a lot of pictures! It was hard for me learn to read and I was ashamed to admit that I couldn't tell time, I don't remember what age I finally knew how to look at the clock and know what time it was!
We were in class with all 8 grades in a one room school house with a wood stove in the corner with our cheese sandwiches wrapped in foil on the stove top warming up to have something hot for lunch! We had shelves as we came in the school house where we'd drop off our lunch boxes, we got a new lunch box each year!  We'd hang our coats on hooks in this same room along with black rubber boots we'd wear over our black school shoes.
One day we were in class and our teacher Allan went to answer a knock on the door, in the coat room. We heard scuffling and huffing, then in a little while teacher Allan came in, with scrapes on his nose and head, & a black eye; he told us we could all go home. So our older brothers hitched up the horse and buggy in the school barn and off we went!
I have fond memories of school, books weren't much fun for me but I loved my friends!
In Iowa it snows a lot and very cold in the wintertime. We always had a pair of ice skates, and being from a family of 10, each year as we grew we got to wear our older brothers and sisters skates! I remember one year it stayed cold so long and ice on the road ways we skated to school!
My dad had an ice house and the men would get together when it had been cold for several weeks and the pond was solid frozen. They'd have a push lawn mower type of machine powered by a gas motor with a blade that was attached horizontally on the machine. The men would take it to the pond and cut blocks of ice and put them in a sled drawn by horses and carry the to the ice house, a little shack they would layer ice, sawdust and brown paper feed sacks. This ice would be preserved for several months and the Amish families would use this to make yummy home made ice cream!
When I was 12 we moved to a new community I must have been depressed because I remember sleeping a lot & always tired! We caught a hamster like creature that year and kept it in the house for a long time, but it got away and that was the end of our pet!
We would do our laundry in a wringer washer, then hang it out on lines strung on posts close to the wash house. In the wintertime the laundry would freeze in the basket before we ever got it hung up!The small pieces of wash we'd hang up on a wooden dowel clothes rack in the house.
In the summers Mom would have a huge garden and we helped hoe the garden, gather the veggies and did a lot of canning. We would mow the grass with a push mower I guess this is one way you keep 10 kids busy!
We always had 100-200 new chickens each year and we dressed all our own meat so from a young age I knew how to cut up a chicken for frying, and how to cut up pork and beef. My family are hunters so we all learned how to shoot a gun and all of us would go deer hunting. I remember one year I was in a deer stand close to my dad and he shot a big buck. As the deer fell his antlers split in hundreds of little pieces! The deer meat was a treat for all of us!
 When I was 17 we spent the winter in FLA for my dads health. This was a teenagers dream! Florida offered a lot of sin and being young and full of energy I fell in with bad company! My sister and I worked as waitresses in a restaurant and this gave us money for our wanderings!
Thankfully we only stayed there 6 months, then returned to our Amish community in Iowa. The Amish had church every other week, the in between Sunday was game day at my house. My older brothers and sister were married by this time, so I loved my little nieces and nephews coming over! We'd eat brunch around 10am then play games and eat snacks the rest of the day finishing out the day with popcorn in the evening!
When I was 20 we moved from Iowa to TN to a place where there was no Amish church. The neighbors invited us to go to Bible School at a missionary Baptist with them. At this time Franklin and I started dating & we were married in February 1992. Franklin had Joel who was 8 years old at the time and Sara who was 5. This was a big undertaking for a youngster of 20, GOD is able! We went to Glennville Baptist church and that same year Franklin rented a movie called A Thief in the Night. When I watched this movie I realized I would not go to Heaven if I died, so Franklin prayed with me to give my life to JESUS CHRIST. Joel also prayed that night to begin his walk with JESUS! This was life-changing for me. GOD is so good!
We served in our church where I taught Sunday School and helped with Bible School. Franklin was Sunday School director and we also helped out with the youth program. Our couples group started a Bible study led by dear friends Wanda and Bob Leslie. We really started being hungry for more of GOD and to follow after GOD and this Bible study helped us to learn how to read the Bible.
Mary Emma was born in Feb 1995 and James in Sept1998.
In 1998 when James was a small baby a missionary came to our church to share about missions in Africa. Franklin went to the altar to receive the mission call. We immediately started to seek ways to get involved short term as volunteers. We kept coming to a dead end and thought surely we had heard GOD wrong!
It wasn't until 1999 at the county fair in Calhoun, KY that Franklin met up with Danny a friend who he hadn't seen since high school. Danny invited Franklin to go on a mission trip of a lifetime to Haiti in January 2000. There Franklin met David and Judy Heady, who were from Owensboro KY, 15 miles from our home! This is how we learned about Global Outreach.  We were accepted as missionaries with Global Outreach in May 2000 and January 2001 we came to the mission field for the very first time as a family to learn Spanish.
We moved to Belize for 3 years after language school, then in 2004 we were able to come back to Costa Rica full time with Global Outreach. We are in the process of developing Taller del Maestro Global Outreach Camp and Bible Training Center.


Thank you for your prayers and support of our ministry here in Costa Rica!
GOD is moving and we are excited about what this new year 2016 holds for this place!
JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Indiana to Costa Rica!

Good morning! 

This group came to us from Indiana they were able to finish the wallboard in cabin Peace and put down some tile! Thank you to each of you who has given to our ministry here in Costa Rica! Amazing how God calls each of us and works in each of us to continue His plan of salvation for all humanity! 

We are thankful to The Lord got letting us be a part if His rescue mission! 

If you'd like to be a part if this ministry by coming on a team you can reach us at turnerefmj@gmail.com or call our teams co-ordinator Carolyn Roye at 662-842-4615 and she can get you started on your mission of a lifetime! 

If you'd like to give to our ministry you can give online at www.globaloutreach.org or send a check made out to Franklin & Evelyn Turner to Global Outreach PO Box 1 Tupelo MS 38802.

Thank you for your support and prayer for Gods kingdom to come in each if our lives! Blessings in Jesus, Franklin & Evelyn