ESL clases...

Here is my ESL class at the moment. We meet every thursday night at 6 pm.

CoraBeth Info

CoraBeth has started playing basketball. Her and two others are the only girls playing. She is always up to the challenge. Sports here are really still left up to the boys. He are some pixs of a sports saturday they had.

A Good Start to the Racing Season...

Garrett had a good start to the racing season. He has committed to race and train this year for only mountain biking. We had our some what of our official race. He did great and everyone is saying that he has promise. If we can just keep his head deflated we will doing good. He finished third in his division. The guy the placed first comes from a family of racers and has been racing all his life. He will be the one that Garrett will mark for most of the season. The race was extremely muddy. My goal was just to finish safely. The day before the race Garrett and I was able to ride some of the course to familiarize ourselves with some technical parts. It started raining the minute we left with the guy that was going to show us around. It continue to rain all night. The after pictures really doesn't do us justice on how muddy the course was. All in all it was a good time for Garrett. It helps break up some of the schooling and cultural things that we deal with on a daily basis. God has been so good to us. I pray each day that Garrett and Cora will see God's grace in their lives. I'm thankful we have family and friends that help support us on the field. Not just financially but with all the Easter cards we received. The care packages that were sent with the "peeps". Also the special package of English muffins and Velveeta. Something that you will not find down here.

A Rare Find? Or Not?

Can you tell me what is so special about this picture?

Some of our Easter Drama!

Use which ever way you want to view the pixs.

Easter

Another good one....

Here is another post Guy turned me on to. Boy can we relate!
Check it out. Nohad 4 God.

Missing Home...

Guy beat me to it. So since he so edicuatly described what we miss at home I'll just let click and read it there. The M Blog.

Garrett...

I thought I would throw in a family shot. This Garrett getting to race. The guy next to him is probably one of the top 20 best in the country. That day Garrett's brakes where touching bad and he could not keep up with the peloton. I'll try to keep you updated on Garrett's races as the year goes on.

Santa Clara...

This is a small town about two hour drive on gravel roads north of where we live. Last year this time we went there with a bike team from Rocha. We all went by bicicle which took about 8 hours. Passed out invitations and showed an evangelistic movie. We had 3 people that where interested in more. So one of our youth started the discipling process. The results where that we return this year to baptize this young lady and do a two day evangelistic impact. The results where about 100 watching the movie with 16 wanting to know more. It was cold at night but comfortable in the day time. We camped both nights. (In the states it would be called primative camping.) All in all it was a productive time. The whole team was tired and ready to come home but enjoyed the special time of baptism. I wonder how many people would ask to be baptize, knowing the warmest water to be found was an underground spring? Enjoy.
May God bless you Easter and time with Family.

Semana Santa or Semana Tourismo....

As we go into April, We are preparing for Easter. Let me prefaces this by saying that what I'm about to say has nothing do with saying what passes in the States is wrong but just to let you see kind of our way of thinking.
Some define preparing for Easter would be buying new Easter Outfit or putting together an musical to show off the talents of the congregation.
Here we are seeing an opportunity to evangelize our areas. As you read, I labeled this entry Semana Santa (Holy Week) or Semana Tourismo (Week of Tourism or Vacation). Uruguay has went as far to separate church and state by changing the name of some our most special times of the year. They have also changed the Christmas holidays to Family week. Sound familiar to what is happening in the states. Just a to throw something out there, if you want to see what the States might look like in 20 to 50 years if the Lord tarries. Take a short trip down here to see how hard hearts are to the Gospel and untrusting the souls can be to the truth.
Back to preparation. We hit the evangelism trail hard. Working in Minas the weekend before Semana Santa and then off to Santa Clara Wednesday to Friday evangelising as well. I'll put that in another post. Enjoy the photos.

ACUPS in Minas.

At the end of March was busy. We continued on March 30 with a ACUPS in Minas. Let me explain a little. ACUPS is a medical ministry in Uruguay. The doctors are from a church in Montevideo. We set up all meals, lodging and location. They come in and give physicals for free then evangelize while they have the patients in the medical bus. It is a fantastic ministry and great evangelistic tool. We did this ACUPS in Minas, where in June we have a team coming from the states to do mini VBS's. We look to have a great time ministering in this area of Minas.

First Day of Sunday School

March started a little slow but we got going. March 25th was the first day of Sunday School. Teresa did the bulletin board. They had a great turn out. Here are a few pictures.