Another late night

Hola.  It has been a long day.  We left the hotel at 6:45am and went to Progreso to hand out breakfast snack bags to the children as they entered school.  While we were there we saw friends that we hadnt seen yet, dropping their children off at school and that made us very happy.  It is always exciting to be at the school there because that is where our ministry in Progreso began four years ago.  The school building then was a 3 sided tar paper wall with a dirt floor "building".  Now there is a "compound" of several cement classrooms - some of the nicest buildings in the neighborhood.  It is so exciting to see the results of how God has worked through us in Progreso over the 4 years we have been visiting.

After a breakfast break, we went back to Progreso and spent a good amount of time simply being there and building and making new relationships.  The women met in homes and caught up on life with their amigas and the men walked around the neighborhood looking for conversations with men and to help them as we could with any projects.  One group of women (including me - Peggy) got carried away and didnt watch the time and went "missing" for a while....we didnt realize the rest of the group was at Lupitas house for lunch waiting for us  and  they were making phone calls and starting to worry about our safety,.  We were just fine............just talking! 

We continued with an event at the House of  Hope this afternoon-evening including a fiesta, drama, music,  puppets and preaching.  Lots of fun and games for the children and families and our team.  We enjoyed our time together.  We played games with over 100 children during the service time.  The evening concluded with a new event - a MEN only pizza-fellowship time.  (true FELLOWship).  Since it was everly evening, men were home from work and able to spend time and connect really for the first time, after praying and desiring for this to happen.  The timing was right. It will be exciting to see what becomes of this as the men from Emmanuel and the few men from House of Hope follow up.

Over all a great day of  ministry.  As you might have guessed, our blogster, Elise, is unavailable.  She needed sleep, so we granted that.  So, you get John and Peggy instead.  We are tired also, so cutting this short.  Thank you for your interest, prayers and support.  Please pray for health and strength to get through the last day of ministry and then travel home.  And wouldnt you know it, they started up with the jackhammer outside the hotel about 45 minutes ago.  We are going to try ear plugs tonight.

Goodnight from Culiacan.