Travel and More Travel

Hello Family and Friends,

It has been a time of travel for David with Evangelism Coordinator meetings in the Dominican Republic, one day in the office and then a 4 day trip to the Indigenous area churches and cell groups.  Shelley and Kayley are expecting David’s return someone tonight.  It will be good to have all 3 of us home once again.  David enjoyed his time in the DR and will share more later about that, but for now a few photos will suffice.

Shelley has been busy with translations of the School of Leadership books, translating from Spanish to English.  The first book, The DNA of the Nazarenes, has already been sent to the printers and this week a revision of the printed copy is due.  The next book, which is nearly complete, is called Worship as a Lifestyle.  

 The Genesis Project is getting started on the Region.  This is a plan to enter into those cities and countries on the Mesoamerica Region where our church presence is limited in comparison to the population.  One of the Caribbean islands were the Church of the Nazarene does not have a presence is Curacao.  This is a Dutch (Holland) island and our friend, Joel Tooley and his son, Nick, spent a few days there exploring, talking to the people and learning about the people there.  Here a photo from the worship service they attended on Sunday.  Anyone speak Dutch and want to plant a church there?  BEAUTIFUL island!

Shelley has also kept occupied planning for CALL.  Six MNU students will arrive in mid November for a 4.5 week stay with CALL, completing their student teaching at a local private school.  They are preparing for their trip by taking Spanish classes online before their arrival.  A new volunteer for Work and Witness is also expected sometime soon to the field.  It will be a great help to that ministry to have someone in charge while the Sickels head to the USA for deputation.

Professora Zeidy teaching one of the MNU students in his first lesson

Speaking of the Sickels, everyone enjoyed Micah’s dedication service last Sunday and the fun Mexican meal afterwards.  It is good to serve with such great people!

            The Reinharts will complete their one month stay with CALL this week. It has been great to have them with us and to witness how their Spanish is improving.  We enjoyed a visit to Zoo Ave, a bird rescue center, which also had a few other animals too like monkeys, turtles, crocodiles and iguanas.

            

 Joshua is doing very well at college, both academically and socially.  We are anticipating his visit “home” to Costa Rica in December which will make the Webbfamily4 complete once again.

Kayley continues her good work in school earning nothing less than a 90% this first quarter of 9^th grade.  Great job, Kayley!

Well, that's the update for now!  David will be sharing with you soon about his recent travels.

God bless,

The Webbs

Hello to Everyone!

Life has settled into a routine these days with school for Kayley, work at SENDAS for Shelley and trips and meetings for David with the leaders of Costa Rica.

A new couple just arrived for the CALL Spanish language program:  Dan and Janet Reinhart.  They are volunteer missionaries with the South America Region and live part of the year in Argentina.  They are spending one month with us to learn as much Spanish as they can.  Soon they will be on their way to Argentina to work with Communications and Finances for the Region there.  They are some of the easiest CALL students that Shelley has ever hosted since they already understand some Spanish and with their backgrounds they are completely adaptable to whatever living situtation.  They are a blessing!

David preached last weekend in San Pedro de Poas, the largest Church of the Nazarene in Costa Rica. He did a great job!  This Church has had dreams of building a LARGE sanctuary for many years and now that dream is partially completed.  One half of the new sanctuary is completed, but there is much left to do.  We are so proud of the congregation there who have sacrificed greatly, both financially and physically, to make this a reality.  They are a church that prays and trusts the Lord to supply their needs and He always does!

Kayley is now officially on Fall Break!  She has a week off (and the next Monday too!), so she is planning on enjoying it fully!  No homework!  This will be quite a change since she normally has to spend 2-3 hours per night on homework to keep up in her classes.  She enjoyed a birthday sleepover last night with her friend Allison Tooley.  Looks like they had a fun time!





David took a one day trip to an Indigenous area of Costa Rica where we have some new church missions.  One this special day, 4 people were baptized in the river.  Two were planned on, but the other two were a surprise.  

Safely crossing the river once again!  They are becoming pros at this!

Reading from the Word before the baptisms.

Armando's baptism

Elias (white shirt), Leyla, Armando and Anderson (church planter)

Erminia was at the baptism service and said she wanted to be baptized but that she wanted to do it with her husband who was not there, nor was he a Christian.  So, she decided to wait.  But after the baptisms, during the preaching, her husband showed up. After hearing the preaching, he wanted to rededicate his life to Jesus and both of them were baptized.  Yeah!

Erminia and Eloy with their daughter.

One interesting thing we have found about the indigenous people is that they rarely smile for the camera.  They are serious, hard working people.  So don't think they are not happy, it's just so hard to get them to smile for photos!  They are beautiful people.

We have an exciting week coming up!  Since Kayley is not in school, she will go with us on Monday on a scouting trip to visit an area of Costa Rica where we do not yet have churches.  It is near the beach, so we hope to at least put our feet in the sand for a few minutes!  Then off to Palmares, a city about 1.5 hrs from San Jose, to plan for an upcoming team from WA that will arrive in January. 

Then Shelley gets to be part of a video conference test of equipment on Tuesday with a new site in Trinidad!  Shelley has been working some with the leadership there to help translate when there are issues with reports, etc.  In Trinidad, the people speak English (more of a Britain English) and since our secretary speaks Spanish only, translation is necessary to get the year end reporting done correctly.  Those are always fun, but challenging conversations to translate!

No big news from Joshua at MVNU, expect that he and his roommate have started a sandwich shop in their room.  The cafeteria closes at 7pm so by 9pm some students are hungry once again.  They have a George Foreman grill that they use to make various types of sandwiches with meats, cheeses and Joshua's specialty, grilled PB&J. 

We pray your week will be blessed.  Enjoy the fall weather and especially the turning leaves.  We sure miss that!

The Webb Family