July 9, 2010

We'll have to go back to Thursday evening.   Dale met with Alvaro's Thursday night men's leadership group.  This week it was in Xaibe (pronounced chi-bay).  The focus was on discipline in marriage.  There were 11 men present from 4 churches, which was exciting to see.  This group is very faithful in coming to these gatherings.  There was much interaction with many questions from the men.  There were discussions about organizing a men's retreat that Dale could come back and be the speaker. 



One interesting thing about this meeting is that shortly after the meeting began, a group of women and children showed up and sat down to listen. 

Yesterday morning, as we were getting ready to head out the door, it started raining.  Really raining!   It was supposed to be moving into the new office day - of course that wasn't going to happen.   So we spent the morning cleaning out the storage room behind the old offices.

Here is Elsa, up on the filing cabinets cleaning the rat doo off the top shelves.

Here is a shot of the new offices.  Still need to have the air conditioning unit installed (they took it out of the old offices while we were cleaning - making it very hot and muggy in the storage room.)

 This is the new principal's office.  (it is through the door you can see in the background of the above picture.)   Really nice! 

Tonight we were invited to a party at Chayo and Amy's house - to celebrate the graduation of Amy's dad (Gary - Belize country director for MTW) from Columbia International University with a masters in Inter-Cultural Studies.  His wife Anita had kept the receipt of his diploma from him so she could surprise him with a little ceremony with family (and friends).  They made him dress up in a Cornerstone cap and gown to make the ceremony look official.   We had American food (or should I say Italian), spaghetti, French bread, salad and chocolate pudding cake for dessert.   







We got to meet the doctor that is currently working at the clinic and a nurse who is here for a month working in the clinic.  (However not a good picture of them - sorry)