Brigade in Guaimaca

A worship service under the brigade tent in Miraflores, a neighborhood in Guaimaca


Schoolchildren excited and waiting for the upcoming program put on by BMDMI team members


The Bible story the team shared with the children was on the creation--followed up by a short time for them to color a picture of something beautiful in God's creaton. I love this little girl's butterfly!


We were so happy to have a BMDMI evangelism team come here to the hospital (from Kentucky and Tennessee), along with one of BMDMI's Honduran bands who travel with the teams (and are fantastic!), and the big tent! During the evenings, we hosted the tent brigade in a neighborhood across from the hospital (near the extremely poor school that the boys are helping). During the days, we traveled around to the schools around Guiamaca and presented Bible stories, played with the kids, and sang songs. Our church members will follow up with people who made professions of faith and/or don't have a church home. It was a great week, and we are so excited about the seeds that have been planted here!

Mission Work in Los Guido

Timothy and I went to help clean up a house in Los Guidos. It had some appalling conditions. We cleaned out alot of trash. A truck was hired to haul off the trash to the dump. Nicaraguan refugees make up the vast majority of the people who live here. After the site has been cleared, the house will be torn down. There is mission funding available to build this family a new house. The poverty in this barrio is overwhelming. Please pray for the people of Los Guidos.

You Know It's a Bad Day in Spanish When . . .

you say something and your tutor doubles over laughing as he reaches for his planner to write it down so he can tell his friends later.

What I meant to say was, "When I was pregnant with my fourth son. . ."

What I said was, "When I was pregnant with my criminal son . . ."

A Wonderful Weekend

Last weekend, we had a great visit with Margaret and Dwight Carr, the president of BMDMI.  This was their first visit to Costa Rica and it was a special time for Tully and me, and for all the missionaries here with BMDMI.  There are currently nine of us with BMDMI in language school, the most at one time in the history of the mission.  We were all encouraged by Margaret and Dwight--in our time with them, we laughed a lot, played games, and ate some great food.  On Monday, before their flight left to return to Honduras, we took them for a quick tour of the school and they got to meet some of the teachers and staff of the school. It was a great time of fellowship!

Introducing Talí y Alba

When we first got here, we quicly realized how difficult our names are to pronounce in Spanish.  Our teachers try very hard to get our names right, but they are just like we are in Spanish, sometimes their mouths can't make the words in English without much effort. And not just the teachers, but we had this problem everywhere we went. Many of the locals think my English name is "Don," which is "Mister" in English. They wondered why I was called "Mister." : )

And Tully. The "u" sound that we say for his name does not exist in Spanish. They would say "Too-ly." The slash over Tully's name is called a "tilde." It is very important as it tells where to put the accent.

So, allow me to introduce our Spanish selves: Alba and Talí. These names work great. One of my maestras gave me the name Alba, because it is the translation for "dawn" in Spanish. Now even some of my English speaking friends call me that. And Talí sounds very close to Tully in rapid Spanish. Our tutor gave him the name and said it's a very old Spanish name.

So it's easy to introduce ourselves now.