Clearwater, Garnett and Children's Camp - July 2016

It is hard to explain how fruitful and fun the last few weeks have been.  Part of summer on the mission field is TEAMS.  We love working with teams and we enjoyed two great ones in the last few weeks.

 

Music practice in our home, preparing for Sunday morning church service.

First, the Clearwater First Church team arrived on June 24^th.  They worked on the Seminary grounds by filling in a big hole with dirt (glamorous, right?), putting electric in the new Orchid building, painting and putting a drop ceiling in a house on campus, and painting office hallways, fences and the play ground.  

It was a great week of work, but also a wonderful week of time together, hearing missionary testimonies, learning from each other.   We always do compassionate ministry with each team, and this team worked in two homes for children. One home is owned by a Nazarene lady and they have 70 children each day (they do not stay the night as they have extended families caring for them).  Their parents are in very bad situations, some in prison and other in drug rehab centers.  It was a special day of ministry.  The other home is a Christian family that adopts children into their home.  They have adopted more than 40 kids through the years.  The youngest child in the home is 3 and the oldest have gone to college, gotten married and now have families of their own.  It is a wonderful place where the kids not only have care and love, but a family that accepts and keeps them forever.

Clearwater Team doing a craft with the children of the Center.

The second team arrived on July 2^nd from Garnett, Kansas Church of the Nazarene. The focus of this team was evangelism, and we worked in two New Start churches in Heredia (San Pablo and Fatima).   We cleaned up trash in the streets, painted in a public school, evangelized door to door, and held children’s VBS activities each afternoon.  It was a blessing for these two small Costa Rican churches to receive this help as they reach their communities. A highlight was the last work day, Friday, when 30+ youth from the Central District joined in to help.  So much got done that day and we enjoyed working together as one team.

The youth picked up lost of trash!

Painting the outside wall of the public school near the Fatima Church.

First it had to be cleaned.

The puppet show in action.

Enjoying the VBS

Pastor Honri and his clowns walking the streets.

Kayley leading the salvation bracelet craft.

The clown crew!

A huge team working together in San Jose School.

A new student arrived for CALL.  Sara is a teacher in Indiana and she wants to improve her Spanish to help with her ESL students. God always send the right students at the right time.  She has been so easy to take care of and so easy going; she jumped right in with the W&W teams and has been a blessing to all.  She just has one more week with us before she returns to the States as school will begin soon.  We will miss her company.

Kayley has been helping with the two teams while taking her first University course online.  And this week she has been a counselor at Children’s Camp.  She has a servant’s heart!  We are so thankful for her and are not sure what we will do when she leaves for the USA.  She makes a great Cometa – the clown in the VBS we often do with teams.

Kayley as a counselor at Children's Camp

Joshua is interviewing for banking positions in the Columbus, Ohio area.  Pray with us that God will provide just the right job for him.  He is living with friends and really enjoying NOT studying for now. 

Now we are preparing for the youth event Indestructible that will begin on Tuesday in Nicaragua.  This is like the NYC for the Mesoamerica Region and occurs only once every four years. Pray for safe travels and border crossings for all, as well as a GREAT event for the youth.

We are so thankful that we received our residency cards finally.  We had some issues this year, but in then nick of time they were approved.  Now we can travel to Nicaragua to be with the youth of the church. Yeah.

August will be very busy as well.  Two teams in the beginning of August and then lots of planning to be ready to leave for Home Assignment on August 22^nd.  We are looking forward to seeing many of you this fall.

Thanks for reading this long blog.  We appreciate each one of you.

The Webb Family