Thursday Morning

Wednesday was a busy day of visiting.   First we stopped by the school to leave a message with Karon, then we went on to San Victor to check out what the team from NC was doing at San Narciso's mission church.  On the road we met Alvaro, headed to town for some paint brushes and varnish.

This is a common sight - families going places with bikes as their only mode of transportation,

In San Victor we found the team busy at work.  They unfortunately had had a couple days where they weren't able to do much because of all the heavy rains, so they were working hard to catch up.  Dale had a good opportunity to talk with Lupe - the foreman & coordinator for the MTW teams.  

Many of the village children were hanging around, and it was fun to see these girls interact with them - helping them with English words.   The team had around 100 children at their Monday's VBS in the village - that means there are many children with families this mission church could reach out to.

Passing back through San Narciso, we stopped to see Taco - an elder in the San Narciso church and the secretary of the Presbytery.  He is currently un-employed, lives by himself (although he does have some family near) has been crippled since birth, and a very intelligent man - computer technology is his main skill.   We wanted to get a feel of his ideas of the potential for some kind of micro-enterprise in the future at San Narciso.    He had an American flag plaque hanging on his sparce walls.

Then, after picking Karon up at Cornerstone, we headed to Patchekan where we had a delightful lunch of rellano (Elsa's mom had made) and a time of fellowship with Elsa's sisters, mom, Kristine & Kevin.

We went back to Alberts, and Dale helped him do some clean-up around the house before we left for a late afternoon swim for Brittany.    The place we were going to swim was closed, but we had a chance to visit with another former student - one who never finished at Cornerstone, but has developed a business of his own in mowing lawns.   Pray for Chistian- he told us he wants to visit the Presbyterian church because he often remembers Dale's Bible classes (back in 2004-2005) and how much he learned.