Sunday and Monday

Hi everyone,

We have had a busy couple of days. Sunday morning was spent at the barrio church. Pastor Elvis preached a great sermon on Mark 11--having the faith to move mountains. Amazing how God works as that has been the focus of our prayer time this week. After church we served some 400 hotdogs and 75 hamburgers.

In the afternoon we went to Granada on lake Nicaragua for a boat tour around the islands. On island was a bunch of Monkeys. We went out for supper and had a "Canadian" type meal of steak and rice and potatoes. Made me miss home... The evening was spent listening to a testimony given by Brian.

Yesterday the team split into 2 until 2pm. The 1st time guys and Jim went to the barrio in the morning and dug holes for soccer nets. We decided as a team to use some of our continingency funds to make proper goals for them. So they dug the holes and we put concrete "sleeves" in them into which the goal posts can be set. We need to do this in order to remove the nets when not in use or the steel will be stolen for scrap. The barrio is known as a rough one and everything that is done here has to take into consideration what could possibly happen by less reputatble people. We are concerned that the sleeves are going to be filled with gravel or mud or garbarge from sheer maliciosness, but we move forward anyways in the hope that they won't. Anyways, the first timers dug the holes and went to a feeding centre. The other guys went to the work site and put up some more sideing and gathered up the concrete materials and went to the site and make the concrete and set in the sleeves and painted the posts. After that work was done, the sports ministry set up the field using the hockey nets and the championship game was played. That was great fun.

We said good bye to all the people of the barrio and came home late for supper. The evening was spent listening to the testimony of Rick Schnurr.

Today we are off to de-compress at the beach and tomorrow we go home. Look for the final post from Nicaragua tomorrow morning.