Block Party BIG Success!

We had a great turnout at the block party tonight.... We only handed out 75 invitations and we had over 200 people come out to the Block Party. It was billed as a great time to meet your neighbors. Everyone had a great time, many are saying they want to come and be part of this kind of church.

Volunteer team from Rabbit Creek A great day!

The team from Rabbit Creek painted a pastor's house in Playa this morning and this afternoon they handed out fliers to invite folks to a block party tomorrow night.

The bunnies grow large in Rabbit Creek, Alaska. The team is building a lot of excitement in a middle class neighborhood in Playa for tomorrow's block party. Pray for this event tomorrow night at 6:30pm our time. We are going to be serving tamales and playing games with the kids. We are promoting this as an event to meet your neighbors in the new middle class neighbor. We hope to have many of our church people there informally talking about our church and inviting them to visit. Pray Pray pray!

Praying for Jose and his family

We have been praying for the guys who are building our house for a while now. Yesterday the construction boss who had heard about our medical clinic asked me if I could help one of his workers. Of course we were ready to help in any way we could. The young man, Jose, has a 9 month old baby who has been sick for a while. We were able to get the baby to our free clinic yesterday, God used Dr. Danny in a great way in the life of this young family. Jose has not come to Christ yet but now he is wanting to hear more....

Please pray for Jose and all the worker over at our house site.

We have a lot going on this week. Thanks for praying.

Free Medical clinic in Playa every Wed.

The Volunteers from Rabbit Creek arrive

The group arrived this afternoon. They are very tried from the long two day trip from Alaska. This small group will hit the ground running tomorrow. Pray for their strength and protection.

Praying for our Volunteers from Alaska

The Volunteers from Rabbit Creek Community Church missed their connection in Seattle. They are now going to be coming in tomorrow.

Plan for the week ahead.

We had a great morning of worship in English and Spanish. This coming week we are going to have mission team down from Alaska and we need your prayers .

Monday, Oct. 22: Alaska Mission Team Comes in.

Tuesday, Oct. 23: I need your prayer as I look at the land we hope to buy for the mission camp/ small hotel

Wednesday, Oct. 24: Mission team painting a Pastor's house in Nueva Creacion;
PM small group Bible Study meeting.

Thursday, Oct. 25: the group will begin work in Paamul (church); Varnish deck and poles, painting, weeding, some distribution of dirt; may need to paint other structure as time permits. (6-7:00 P.M., Flyer distribution for block party for next day).

Friday, Oct 26: 9:30 A.M. resume work at church in Paamul.
PM Block Party at Guadalupana community;

Saturday, Oct. 27: Free Day for Team; A ladies outreach conference.

Kid's playing at the church in Paamul

Fifth rainbow in Two Weeks

This is the fifth rainbow over our new mission house in the last two weeks. Darla bought that movie "Evan Almighty" while in the States. It's about the guy who builds and Ark in D.C. Our neighbours are saying our house looks like Noah's ark. Now with the rainbows I'm starting to look for the animals. The house is coming along great it is taking a little more of my time than I had anticipated but I am making it part of our ministry. I am sharing sermons everyday with the guys who are working on the house. Today of course we talked a lot about Noah. These workers seem to know many of the bible stories but they do not believe it has much relevance in their daily lives. They pretty much are in a survival mode... Working six days a week and the time they have off they are too tried to do any thing but drink beer and watch football on TV.

I guess it's not that much different than working men up north. Toby Keith has a new song that goes like this, “Yeah, the big boss man he likes to crack that whip. I ain’t nothing but a number on his time card slip. I give him forty hours and a piece of my soul and he puts me at the bottom of his totem pole. I don’t even think he knows my name. My baby cuts hair at the beauty boutique just blowing and going till she’s dead on her feet. They walk right in and they set right down. She gives them what they want and then she spins them around. I don’t even think they know her name. All week long I'm a real nobody but I just punched out and it’s paycheck Friday. The weekend’s here. Good God almighty I'm going to get drunk and be somebody. We’re just average people in an everyday bar driving from work in our ordinary car. But I like to come here with the regular Joes, drink all you want and be the star of the show.”

Pray for these men who are building our house... They need hope...

The two lead guys are Fred and Dino. I know it sounds like the Flintstones.

The beach about 200 yards from our house

Upstairs guest room in our new house

Our bedroom still under construction