July 27,2009

We made it back to Pittsburgh safely and on-time. Thank you for your prayers.

Our last full day in Belize was an adventure with the San Narciso Church.

We left San Narciso at 8:00 am, a bus full of 46 people, mostly children. We made several stops along the way picking people up, and arrived at Altun Ha (a Mayan ruin) at about 10:00 am. We were greeted by millions of mosquitos! So the first thing we all did was apply our bug spray!


We moved the food and everyone into this shelter where the mosquitos were even thicker.

We had about 35 minutes of worship - singing and Alvaro gave a devotional on Eph. 4:1-6 . After that some games - here we are doing tug of war.


After the games we toured the Mayan ruins and had a lot of fun climbing the temples.


Around noon we all gathered back in the mosquito shelter for lunch. Dale, Carla and I had to let several families share thier food with us - rice and beans, fried rice, fried chicken - all delicious. We certainly didn't go hungry.





After eating we packed up the bus and retraced our route for about 18 miles to this new ECO PARK - Croc-land. We headed for a shelter there in the park where we had our second worship service.
Dale gave the devotional and we did a lot of singing, and there was a very special time of sharing were several people stood up and thanked Dale and I for coming to Belize every year and for all we have done for them. It was very humbling because these people bless us much more than we think we ever bless them.


Alvaro gave a special thanks to our home church, FRPC for all they have done for his seminary education. It was all very special.





After a tour of the crocodiles, we spent about 90 minutes at the swimming pool.


It was a perfect day!


We left the Eco Park around 5:00 for Belize City where we spent the night at the Best Western before heading out of Belize in the morning.


What a blessing these people are to us! We are so grateful for the opportunity to spend another July with them.





Dios te bendiga!