Let's give thanks!

Want to thank each of you who has given sometime this year. Your donations and prayers came just as GOD directed you! Thank you! As the saying goes GOD is never late but seldom early! Want you to know you may have given a random donation, or your donatin may have been well planned, but in GODS perfect timing!!!
May GOD bless you richly as you go throughout this day. Let's remember to pray for each other especially through this busy CHRISTmas season.
Thank you again for giving and praying this makes it possible for us to be here in Costa Rica serving GOD building a camp and training center! Camp Taller Del Maestro Global Outreach will be a place of refuge and hope for many who are struggling in this pilgrimige to HEAVEN!
If you'd like more information on how to be involved please call our home office at 662-842-4615!
JESUS BLESS YOU TODAY! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Progress!

Ok so sometimes it is hard to see the progress, on a daily march, sometimes we don't see much change! BUT,,,,,,,, as I looked back on the pictures of a year ago today, WOW praise the LORD is all I can say! We now have running water in our home, we now have lights, walls, all this was a faint hope a year ago! OUR LORD os great! and great is HIS faithfullness! Thank you for giving and for praying, and for coming to help, a step at a time we cross this life changing bridge, building this camp center, so that MANY will come to JESUS!

 

 

My brothers and my Dad came to help on the roof for the first building a year ago this week! Thanks guys! Whata blessing to have them here with us! If you'd like to come please call our home office at 662-842-4615 and talk to Carla. Get ready for a life changing experience!

 

JESUS BLESS YOU!
Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Upala 2010

 

Many of you remember this little community 3 hours north of here, in Upala we have worked there with them several years now through our pastor here at Arbol de Vida church. We went this year to help out, we laid tile in 2 Sunday Schhol rooms and the altar is getting a new look the men are finishing it today pouring concrete to finish it out then tile on top should look great!

 

The kids loved what Franklin did the first day we got there! We had put up a swing set in 2008 when we went to this church. Well this year it was broken down so we fixed up the 3 swings for the kids and Juan welded the metal part! Prasie the LORD, these children can come to their church and play and listen to the WORD OF GOD!!!

 

Juan is the one in the bandana, he welded up the frame in this car too! In this little community it is hard to find someone who welds and does handy work like that so it is huge blessing to us to help out and to them because otherwise this car would have been only good for junk iron as would the swingset too! Praise the LORD for the gift to help! Thank you for giving on order for us to give!


JESUS BLESS YOU!
Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Camp center creatures!

This guy is a friend of mine, he eats every insect that comes his way as you can see he's pretty fat! He also eats small snakes, ok little lizard creature GODS design, you can hang around awhile!

 

This creature was hiding on a stump, his coat is the same color as the tree!

 

Ok where di these creatures come from? They look well, created in the image of a great GOD!

 

More creatures I found creeping along, picking up rocks and chopping weeds with machetes! ! Jacob is a new friend GOD has sent our way to help, he volunteered all this past week and plans to be back with again next week! He is listening for GOD to speak into his life, he wants to be a missionary here in Costa Rica LORD willing, pray for Jacob! James has enjoyed his friendship!

 

JESUS BLESS YOU!
Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

My Kitchen!

 

 

We are settled in to our "home"for now! We love the quiet and serenity of the camp and are enjoying getting started building this beautiful place GOD is devloping through us!

Thank you for praying for us, We are so thankful for you and pray that GOD will bless you richly in this coming week!
If you would like to give to this ministry we would appreciate your support, you can give on line at www.globaloutreach.org
You can also give by making out your check to Global Outreach for Franklin Turner and send to Global Outreach P.O. Box 1 Tupelo, MS. 38802

JESUS BLESS YOU!
Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Great help!

Franklins mom is here with us along with Emmette and Elise his Daughter! We have had a wonderful visit with them and they have been a big help! Emmette was able to help Franklin get some wiring done, and Claudette and Elise were able to paint the rest of the steel so now it is ready to put up building the rest of the rooms upstairs for us to live in the apartment hopefully we will be able to fully move in about a month!

 

 

 

Grama brought some new movies so Mary and James set up their TV right in the middle of the work and watched a movie!


JESUS BLESS YOU!
Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Activities on a weekend in Costa Rica!

Mary was able to be a part in her friend Carolinas wedding!




We all had a busy weekend going to 2 church services, taking engineers to see about working on the Taller del Maestro Global Outreach camp center road, 2 childrens CHRISTmas parties, wedding and a broken down truck! Our truck broke down Sunday evening, please PRAY for this as we try to figure out what happened to it and in all we do serve JESUS in Costa Rica.
JESUS BLESS YOU!
Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

Auto repair and coffins??

It may sound a little morbid, but this is the story for the day! James and I went to have the mechanic work on the car. We got to the shop and he took it to have the electrician work on the wiring. We had to wait at the mechanics shop till they finished so we sat there in the office waiting. Of course you can imagine James was not patient and started walking around the shop looking for something to do. The mechanics son came in and was taking a motor apart, and James helped a little! Then he started talking to some people who were working in a little room at the back. They make coffins, imagine the mixture, a mechanics shop and a coffin shop all in one! So they let him pound in the nails and help sand the coffins! What an experience!
God prepared the way and James spent 3 hours helping out pounding in nails and sanding the coffins, he really did well! And yes we did get the car fixed we even took it to the muffler shop and they got the muffler fixed too, took all day but PRAISE THE LORD it is better and James wasn't bored, he got to HELP!
Thank you for your prayers for us! PRAY for our safety as we work on the entrance to our property and camp center! GOD IS GOOD! more news coming!
JESUS BLESS YOU!
Franklin Evelyn Mary & James

March in favor of biblical Marriage

James among thousands who turned out for the march in favor of GOD DESIGNED marriage.

We walked 2 miles, half of it in the rain but it didn't dampen the spirits of this group!

Mary and James and youth group with Fluxy a

Christian rap artist who came out to support the family!

Our family was a part of taking a stand against gay marriage here in Costa Rica.
We left around 7 am and drove into San Jose the capital city of Costa Rica Saturday Morning.
We parked our cars in a parking lot in the center of town then marched with 19 others from our church Arbol de Vida and about 20,000 people who came together

to say no to gay marriage and yes to GOD designed marriage!

GOD created marriage to between one man and one woman. There were some in politics in Costa Rica who wanted to pass the law saying 2 men or 2 women could be married. Christians from all walks of life came out in protest. This friendly walk was organized by the Christian Alliance, the same oragnization who helped us get our residence visa in May!

We walked 2 miles on the busiest street in San Jose the center of the hub of traffic, starting at 9am and ending around noon! As we were arriving to start the march at a little after 8 it started to sprinkle then a steady rain, but our hearts were in it and GOD gave us strength! As we began our march the Christian radio station played music, and we all sang along under our umbrellas!

As we reached the end of the street, before getting to the intersection, we all stopped and they had a platform set up to recieve us, 20,000 people gathered around and right there in the street we lifted our voices praising GOD without shame or fear of persecution!

PRAISE BE TO GOD!

As the Christian Alliance gave testimony of 40 days of fasting a prayer that had gone into the planning of this event, music artists from as far away as Puerto Rico, sang praise songs lifting up the name of JESUS!

As they ended our time together they asked us to join them in an hour of prayer! So different pastors and teachers took part praying for all the different facets of the family, asking for GODs great hand of prtection over the FAMILY OF COSTA RICA!

Thank you for your part in our minsitry here in Costa Rica you have held us up in prayer and have given so that the name of JESUS will be preached. We want to thank you and tell you that to our very best ability we tell the GOOD NEWS, JESUS is alive, and is coming back very soon! halleluyah!!!!

If you have not given and would like to be a part of missions in Costa Rica you can give to our ministry by sending your check made out to Franklin Turner, Costa Rica to

GLOBAL OUTREACH P.O. Box 1 Tupelo MS 38802

or online at www.globaloutreach.org

Cows???

For those of you who have been here this is an every day event here at the church the
cows walking by! GOD is so wonderful! We take these little things for granted so many times
and seems like something so regular that we over look the blessing in enjoying
every aspect of GODS beautiful creation!
Praise the LORD for your pet HE created it and GOD knew we would need these
wonderful creatures to help us remember how wonderful HE is!
Look to JESUS for your strength and remember no-one can fill that hole in your life it is

JESUS sized!
JESUS thank you for being my Saviour and LORD and thank you for all of
your wonderful creation, you were creating with me in mind!

Mary and James

James with his soccer team they played their first game Saturday.

Mary with Marcela with the Arbol de Vida Church youth outreach giving out tracts at the bridge coming into Tabarcia.

Giving out the word of GOD! The youth have bee evangelising here at the little bridge leading into Tabarcia on Sunday afternoons. They give out tracts and have given out invitations to church and also some little bouncy balls that Thomas & Jenny brought with them a few weeks ago! PRAY that this evangelistic outreach would reach the lost and strengthen the faith of our youth as they grow spiritually as well as physically! JESUS bless you today!

Upala 2008

Happy birthday Pastor

This is a group who was at the TALLER DEL MAESTRO GLOBAL OUTREACH today! Thank you Jared Elizabeth and Nathan Fly, Lynn Kathy Olivia and Elijah Prather, Sarah Fraley, Nancy Cox and Ashley ( the photagrapher!) for your presence with us today! May God richly bless you today and the rest of your life!

This is our pastor Olger with Franklin. Today is his birthday will you pray for him when you read this? This has been an especially hard day for him pray that GOD will give him strength and courage for this coming year and GOD will open the flood gates of Heaven on this servant of the MOST HIGH GOD!

PRAY GIVE GO

This week on February 29 we celebrate 16 years of marriage! Praise the Lord!

Sideways?

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