Update for this week

I haven't been very good at keeping up with our weekly update . . . here are some items for this week.

1) Last night, Nathan and I had dinner with a team from MI - Lapeer Community Church. They are working hard with one of Extreme Response's partners called Remanso de Amor (Haven of Love), working to finish part of the church expansion project. It was great to see some familiar faces from past teams and to meet new team members.

2) the team will also be coming to our Kids Club at the dump today. . . . our last club of the summer months. I'm excited because one of the team members brought along his puppet show (thanks, Fred) and that will be exciting for the kids. I'll try to remember to take my camera to take photos today.

3) Santi is working on the next level of English class . . . he's moving along. He's in level 5 of 8. Keep praying for him as it makes for very long days and weeks for him. He goes to class every night from 6 - 8 pm after working all day at HCJB, in the Information Systems department.

4) Nathan continues to grow, learn and develop. He's now 8 months old. He has his 2 -month checkup on Friday with his pediatricians. He loves going and seeing Dr. Fernando and Dr. Jijon. Nathan is now crawling like crazy, pulling himself up on things, climbing stairs (can't figure out how to come back down) and basically getting into anything he can find, keeping mommy very busy.

5) We will soon be starting up our new CSO (Christian Service Outreach) group from Alliance Academy. This is the group of students who will be doing the Kids Club at the dump for the school year. Pray that our leadership will have wisdom as they read through the students' applications for the group. We are so glad to take on the mentorship of a new group of students this year, plus continue our ministry at the dump. The Bible stories that we will be presenting this year will come from the book of Acts.

6) Pray for preparations for the Hogar Betania (Bethany Home for the Elderly) service this 5th Sunday of the month. Tommy and Ennie Bowen will be helping us out with the service - THANKS GUYS! There are new residents at the Hogar and we aren't sure if they know Jesus as their Saviour. Additionally, the above mentioned team will be visiting the Hogar next week on Thursday - a chance to do something special for the residents. Pray for us as plan this activity with the team.

Thank you so much for praying and being a part of our support team . . . we appreciate you all so much!

Here are a few more photos from our time in Papallacta!