Monday

What a beautiful day in Culiacan!  After breakfast here at the hotel, we split into two team.  Guys went to Progreso to work on the church building site where they painted, laid cement block for the walls and bought supplies.  News Flash:  HALLELUJAH  there are two bathrooms at the church there that will be finished this week and I would like to say that I am super excited about that.  :)  Meanwhile, back at church, ladies worked on sorting the donated clothing we brought down.  These will be distributed later.  We worked on our puppets and other activites in preparation for the afternoon.  After lunch we all were at Progreso at the House of Hope.  We had around 50 kids and parents show up for a fun afternoon.  The puupets (well done, Julie) along with John and Peg, led the singing time, and then we read the Max Lucado book, "You Are Special" to the kids.   Trey read the whole book in Spanish - "Tu  Eres Especial".  We took digital photos of the kids and printed the pictures on a little printer while they colored frames as the craft, then gave them the photos to put in the frame.  That was a big hit!  We were so happy to see the children and parents again and be back in Progreso!  Not much has changed from what we can see so far.  It just feels great to be there again.  We are looking forward to a great week together.  Our team is having a great time getting to know one another better,and working well together and laughing a lot. The sun was shining all day here and we felt the warmth of it.  The Son is shining amongst us all and we feel the love between us all.

We appreciate your continued prayers for our team here, in all areas, especially health.  We have a few people who aren't feeling 100% at the moment, but not too bad.

Tomorrow will be a long day of construction (so we have heard) after serving breakfast for the children in Progreso at 8:00 a.m.  Another early to rise day.  That means lights out campers.

For the team,
Peg and John