Home Again

We are home. After a delay in Charolotte, NC, we arrived home at about 12:45am on the 29th. All are well and trying to get back int he swing of life in the US with little down time. As always is true on missions trips, we are each discovering that you just can't look at life the same way after experiecing at taste of life the is 360 degrees different than your own.

My hope is that we can help others view their world differently AND continue to affect a world view in the church that is from the heart of God. Thank you for all your prayers. We hope to show a short video soon about the trip.

Seeing a Little More of Costa Rica

Today we left at 7am and drove up into the mountains to see a huge volcano. The day was pretty overcast in the high elevations, so all we could see was there must be a "really big hole" in front of us. It was very cold and drizzling too, so we walk back down. We met a wonderful couple from France who wanted to know what brought us to Costa Rica, so we were able to share our mission's effort with them. we drove to a beautiful waterfall and several of us ventured along a ledge back behind it -- this is not Niagra Falls where everything is safe -- you're on your own here!! It was wonderful and another reminder of God's creative genius.

After a traditional Costa Rican lunch, we headed back home and spent the day relaxing around the house. Steve made sure to check on the men in the village to see if they had done the work on the piping we had purchased. They had worked had all day (their only day off) and taken care of a problem that was sending sewage, etc into the middle of their small group of homes. This is a real victory. We gave them the supplies, but they did the work!

After dinner, everyone is spending time in what they know will be the last few hours together and packing everything back up for the trip home tomorrow. We leave at 2:30pm Costa Rica time (4:30pm at home) and fly to Charlotte, NC, then home from there and hopefully landing at 11:30pm. We can't wait to share all the details of our week with you in person. Pray for our travel. We have a very tight connection in Charlotte, so we need the flight to be right on time.