Thursday night before we left Courtenay and Jacob Folk gave us a final pizza party--it was so much fun! (L to R: DeNiel Gillen, going to Dominican Republic, Darlynne Frederiks, returning to New Jersey to work with Hispanics there in street ministry, Courtenay, will be staying in Costa Rica, me, Trisha Lawrence (with our mission!) will be going to Honduras to work at the Children's Home, Leslie Schneider, going to Chile, and Shirley Cissell, staying in Costa Rica)
The morning that we left, Trey, Timothy, and Luke's friends, Rachel, Stephanie, and Josh came over at 7:30 am to say their goodbyes. Later, they were joined by Trisha and Kelly Lawrence, and Stephanie's mom, Leslie, who all helped out in whatever way they could to get us (and all of our bags) into the vans for the ride to the airport!
Stephanie Schneider with Carmen and Anna
Trisha and Kelly Lawrence with the girls
Our bags, packed, weighed, repacked, reweighed . . . well, you get the idea.
The gang over for a game of spoons and watching movies--they were together constantly, I think, for the last month.
Anthony Gillen and Tully
Anna and her buddy, Jacob Gillen. Even the little kids had to say goodbye to dear friends!
At the airport in San Jose--in a moment of chaos in getting all of our bags onto carts to be rolled into the airport. : )
Elijah with Cristian, one of the driver's that the students at ILE use--Elijah has enjoyed getting to know Cristian this year and rode with him a final time to the airport while Cristian drove our bags in his van.
We're so glad you're there and had such a nice "goodbye" time here in Costa Rica!!
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