Monday and Tuesday combined in pictures on site 1

God created us to live with a single passion,

 to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all the spheres of our life.

The wasted life is the life without passion.

God calls us to pray and think, and dream, and plan, and work,

not to be much of, but

to make much of Him in every part of our lives.......

.........What ever you do, 

find the God centered, Christ exalting,

 bible- saturated passion of your life, 

and find your way to say it and live for it

 and die for it.

and you will make a difference that lasts.

(A journal note from my first mission trip in 2007, 

I did not write this. I know I copied it out of a book because it meant something to me then

and still does.   

This sunday we all went to Sunday school at our partner church.

after lunch we meet up with Pastor Diego and Brother Thomas and headed for Panabaj.

While in Panabaj we meet Elias aka-Rambo. We know Elias from our summer'09 mission and last February. He is a survivor from the mudslide in 2005. Almost every bone in his body was broken and he has scares all over his body to prove it. He earned the name Rambo from his ability to be indestructable in this event. He is one of the sponsored children from Panabaj that go to the school in Santiago. He has a contagious smile and has become a leader among his peers.

Their are still broken and desperate lives in Panabaj

Please keep them in your prayers.

A video Cesar put together of Day 2 video (day one for Cesar)

This a little video our translator Cesar put together for our 2nd day in country.

Enjoy.

dAy2 of fish and bread

dAy 2 and it is a go.

The team had breakfast and checked out of our rooms. Cesar (our translator for the 3rd time) meet us in the Lobby and introduced us to his sister Carol.

After a quick intro to the team we rolled our luggage out to the coaster bus.

We boarded and headed to the local version of Sam's club/ Costco store. This is where we are buying the items for the families we are building houses for. Some pantry staples and a few kitchen/dinning items.

We had Alex recording the cost of each item as we put them in the carts, in order to stay close to our budget for this purchase. When we hit our budget we decided to go check out. The checker rang-up all of our purchases and the total came to barely over half of our budget. ?????

I checked Alex's math. His math was spot on.

Gloria blurted out that God was multiplying the blessing!!!! (in a Gloria kind of way, if you know her)

So we grabbed another cart and headed back into the store. Armed with the the left over money from the first go-round. We started filling the cart with new items and a new list of the cost of each item. When we achieved our budget  we turned around and headed for the check-out.

Rang-up all of our items and this time we got all the items we that we could not get the first go round.

We jumped on the coaster and hit the road for a long trip to Santiago Atitlan,

Once in Santiago, we checked into the hotel and waited for Pastor Diego to come and meet the team.

In all it was a good drive with a relaxing evening. preparing ourselves for the work of the week ahead.

Please have Pastor Diego's wife, Mary in prayer. She has been ill for awhile.
Please have in prayer Josue's wife. She is ill also.

May the peace of our Lord be upon you all
Barrett