Dedications done

We did split up the team into a few trucks to go to each of the five homes built this week. Prayer and thanksgiving were offered at each. Oneof the homes was built for a woman with five children, each one with a different father. Her oldest daughter also has a son and no husband. The woman had awbandoned the children to be raised by her sister. The pastor talked very frankly and instructed the woman to stop sinning! He also challenged the children to forgive their mother.

One of the women from the pastor training team was able to go to three homes yesterday to visit. She said that she did not see how the women were able to do home visits all day. The pain and emotional energy the morning took for her, she has an appreciation for those of us doing this all week. Othersof us have gotten the doctors to come to homes where the sick are unable to come to the clinics. Teeth of one of the construction workers in San Pedro came to the hotel and had his tooth pulled on the balcony a couple of nights ago. Some of the computer team have reported their challenges. Even though they are attempting to tell us in lay terms, some of us remain clueless. Suffice it to say, all of us have worked together well all week. Teams have helped each othr. People, like Paul, a trained dentist, was on construction until the two dentists from Guatemala City were down. Then he pulled and cleaned teeth in extremely primitive conditions. Friday was the poorest village and some of the tools had gone to Guatumala City with the dentists that needed to return before the week was done.

All in all, this week has been amazing. Much has been accomplished. Many seed have been planted. The churches have families identified that need to see specialiats and need to help make that happen. Some of the returning team members have reconnected with friens from the pat. All of us have made new friends. April first at six thirty in the evening we will gather to share some of our experienes with any and all of our supporters and those other interested parties at Wooddale Church.

Please excuse any delays, brevity, typos, and ommissions from this week's blog.

We will eat lunch shortly and it smells like much garlic. We take one more boat ride across this beautiful lake, load up on buses and head to Antiquia for an evening off with money to dine any place we would like.

Thank you for all your prayes. Contiue to pray for the health and safety of the team. Four people fly back Sunday morning. Especially pray for the wait staff that talked with a coule of us later last night, once done with his duties. He is reading the writings of other religions. He did accept a New testiment and committed to read the book of John. He will e-mail his comments to one of us after he does that. He is a very plesant young man traveling the world and searching for what to believe above the focus on the present and accepting bad as well as good. Pray he comes to see Christ for who He is.

Until later!