Our wonderful breakfast this morning was cereal, milk and freshly gleaned oranges and grapefruit. We enjoyed our drive to the church up the road through Belmopan into the mountains through the orange groves. We noticed some fruit stands along the way where we planned to return. The drive is exciting where there are one lane bridges, including one that has no railings!At the church site, we continued working on the windows. Three of the window openings were too small so we needed to
make forms and pour concrete to make the openings smaller. We framed the doorways plus drilling the six paneled doors for adding the door knobs and 
hinges. Unfortunately we are having skill saw problems and burned out the second one today, but we did get one of the doors hung.Sister Polita from the church sent us lunch that she had made for us – beef stew and beans and rice. It was delicious. Two of the boys from Sunday School on Sunday, Earnest and Ismeel, came by to see us this afternoon and 
they were delighted to see pictures of themselves on my computer. They told me that the huge palm tree in the church yard was called a Kahoon (Calhoun?) tree. It is really magnificent. They used palms from it to create the roof for their shade arbor by the church, where the youth meet. Hal had fun showing the kids a magic trick and Neil discovered a new game with the 
kids this afternoon. It looked sort of like dodge ball, but they called it stoning (played with a nerf football). We are making good process on the building.
they were delighted to see pictures of themselves on my computer. They told me that the huge palm tree in the church yard was called a Kahoon (Calhoun?) tree. It is really magnificent. They used palms from it to create the roof for their shade arbor by the church, where the youth meet. Hal had fun showing the kids a magic trick and Neil discovered a new game with the 
kids this afternoon. It looked sort of like dodge ball, but they called it stoning (played with a nerf football). We are making good process on the building. Tonight we stopped by the fruit stand and bought pineapples and bananas for 
breakfast tomorrow morning. After dinner, John led us in a devotion from Luke on the Good Samaritan. Then we listened in as a group of Mennonites who are sharing the camp with us had their evening service. We could mainly hear the large congregation singing which was wonderful. They sang some good old hymns like “Ready to go, Ready to stay, Ready to do God’s will” in four part harmony. It seemed like a good close to the day.
breakfast tomorrow morning. After dinner, John led us in a devotion from Luke on the Good Samaritan. Then we listened in as a group of Mennonites who are sharing the camp with us had their evening service. We could mainly hear the large congregation singing which was wonderful. They sang some good old hymns like “Ready to go, Ready to stay, Ready to do God’s will” in four part harmony. It seemed like a good close to the day. 
Looks like ya'll are doing some great work and meeting wonderful people! Hope you all have a great day today :) You are all in my prayers! - EM
ReplyDeleteWonderful pictures! Thanks! Makes me feel like I am there - continue sharing and blessing the folks there in Belize as I am sure you are blessed each day. RM
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