Ohio and WV

Hello Friends and Family,
Our trek across America has continued with the latest stops being in Ohio, West Viriginia and now Maryland.

We had a great time visiting with a recent team to Nicaragua from Coshocton, OH. We spent a lovely Saturday evening with part of the team, Sunday morning with the entire congregation, Sunday lunch at the Patio Grill located at the local airport
(see photo) and a great evening with the entire team at the home of our friends, the Limburg family. It was a wonderful day to catch up with friends and make future plans for a return to Costa Rica in 2010 with a possible Father/Son team! Thanks friends from Coshoscton, for a fun-filled reunion!

Next it was onto Columbus, OH where we met with a church interested in bringing a youth team to MAC South. We enjoyed a Chinese meal while discussing the goings-ons in Nicaragua. We visited the church – Northwest Church of the Nazarene – took a tour, burned some photos to a CD for the youth pastor and waved goodbye, hoping to see them again soon with their teen group next year.

Then off to the East Ohio District campgrounds near Alliance. We had a wonderful day with the kids holding missions events and even a parade!
In the evening we presented to the adults and enjoyed meeting many new friends and prayer partners.

A quick pit stop was made at the NFL Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
David and Joshua enjoyed this experience, especially all the Green Bay Packer memorabilia – and there was lots of it!

We spent Wednesday afternoon touring Mt. Vernon Nazarene University, giving Joshua another option for college. It is a beautiful campus that reminded us lots of Simpson College in Iowa.
That evening, we spoke both with kids and adults at the New Life Church. This church has brought teams down to Nicaragua numerous times and has been instrumental in building the La Carbonera Child Development Center. Thanks New Life for all your support in MAC South!

On Thursday, we traveled east to Morgantown, WV. On Friday we hiked the hills of West Virigina at a State Park. Beautiful! It was the hottest day they have had yet in WV this year, so it was a scorcher!


After a much needed shower, we enjoyed a cook out and evening service at Pierpont Church. We enjoyed the hotdogs and smores over the bonfire.
We are already beginning to think how much we will miss the long sun-filled days of the USA. With daily sunset at 6pm, these beautiful nights are short lived for us. But Costa Rica is calling and we will be home soon. Everyone in the family is ready for this chapter to close and the next chapter to begin - even if it means going back to school! Kayley especially is ready to be done traveling by car - here she is on an Ohio roadside - trying to beat carsickness. She even smiles when she is sick!


We are now in Baltimore, preparing for a Spanish service this evening. This is our one and only Spanish-speaking congregation this summer – and just in time! We are beginning to lose our Spanish!!! Actually we are very excited to speak in Spanish this evening and share about the work going on in MAC South.

The next blog will likely be written from Costa Rica and I can’t wait to share some of our experiences in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and our Nation’s Capitol! See you next time!


The Webb Family

Tulsa and Beyond!

Hello Dear Friends and Family,

This weekend we had the pleasure of visiting our friends in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Geoffrey and Sharon Gunter were our pastors 18 years ago in Junction City, KS and now pastor the Regency Park Church of the Nazarene in Tulsa.

Geoffrey and Sharon shared their home with us and we shared much time reminiscing of our days in Kansas. We enjoyed speaking for their Faith Promise Missions focus weekend on both Saturday night and on Sunday morning. Geoffrey is an avid fisherman so he planned a special fishing trip for the guys early Monday morning. Joshua caught 3, Geoffrey 2 and David 1. A successful trip and perhaps the beginning of a new sporting hobby for Joshua!


We also enjoyed an evening at another Tulsa Church called Tulsa Hills. There we enjoyed the people and of course, the homemade ice cream. Joshua most enjoyed the gym and the teenagers who played BB with him after the service.


We are in the process of washing and packing once again. But in the process we are enjoyed moments with David’s family – especially his Mom and his sister. Here you can see the kids and then David's sister Tina with Lydia (one of Tina's 6 grandkids).
This time when we leave Iowa, we will not be returning so it once again time for goodbyes.

Our future plans include trips to Chicago, Central Ohio, West Virginia (Morgantown), and then a district tour of the Mid-Atlantic District which includes areas of Maryland, Vermont, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC.

Well, just in case there is not Internet access on the road or in the places where we will be, this may be the last blog until September when we return to Costa Rica. We hope you have enjoyed coming along for the Summer Roadtrip 2009!

Prayer Requests:
Safe Travel and Blessed Services in each location.
Improved Health – We have all been fighting off summer colds.
A good transition to San Jose – school and regular work schedule starts once again.
The perfect person to buy our Chrysler Town and Country van - It has served us well!

Thanks for thinking of us and logging onto the blog! The Webb Family

The CA Experience

Dear Family and Friends,


Last week was special for the Webb family as we flew to San Diego, CA for a 5-day visit with our friends at Las Flores Church of the Nazarene in Carlsbad, CA. Only David had ever visited CA before, so it was a first for three of us!

We enjoyed great food and lodging with our friends, Toby, Rhonda and Sammy. We appreciated the computer assistance from Phil and Stephanie (Congrats you two with baby on the way!). Kayley loved her sleepover with her pal Bonnie (Thanks May family!) and we had a blast reuniting with the two teams from their church that visited Costa Rica in the last two years. The teens are growing up!


We visited the beach, the San Diego zoo (lots of walking and a great elephant exhibit among others), Sea World (you gotta love Shamu and the dolphins!),
and rode our first combination roller coaster/water ride.

Joshua had his first surfing lesson and actually made it to his feet one time! His teacher was the youth pastor, Nate (standing next to Joshua in the photo), who is a semi-pro surfer - an expert! How fun for Joshua to try this new sport!


We spoke at the Las Flores church on Wednesday night.
Then Thursday evening we enjoyed a cookout with the teams and the local mission council. What fun!




We also visited Point Loma Nazarene University. It is an amazing campus with many ocean views! I think I would have a hard time studying there!!! Kayley has decided she IS going to college there and Joshua is strongly considering it. We’ll see!

We are preparing to leave for Tulsa, OK in the morning where we will speak Saturday night, Sunday morning and Sunday night. Then back to Iowa for a day of laundry and packing it all up! Next week we head off to Chicago, then Ohio, then West Virginia, then Maryland and the DC area. It will be a little crazy before we finally head back to Chicago and then HOME to Costa Rica!

Thanks for your prayers for our travel and church services. It has been a great summer filled with many blessings from God.

God bless you all,
The Webb Family

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July 2009

Trevecca Team to Nicaragua in May

A 14-member team from Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, TN arrived ready to work in May. The endured hard days of travel by bus, boat and bus again (14 hours in all) to reach the small town of El Rama in the Southeast District of Nicaragua.

The team assisted Nicaraguan leaders by digging a trench to supply water to the nearby elementary school, by replacing wood panels on a preschool building, enjoying VBS with the children of the school and showing the Jesus Film.






After three days of activities, more than 110 people had accepted the Lord. The DS announced,
“Today, we saw a church be born!”

The work continues there for the local leaders who are discipling those who made decisions for Christ during the Maximum Mission events.

Home Assignment Begins
On May 23rd, the Webb family said a sad goodbye to Costa Rica and climbed aboard a plane bound for Chicago by way of Miami. It has been a busy time for the Webbs as they have already put more than 7000 miles on the minivan making stops in Iowa, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Kansas and most recently, California.





The Webbs are currently in Carlsbad, CA spending time with the Las Flores church congregation who brought teams to the Costa Rica for the last two years.

Thanks to all who have let us stay in your homes as we have travelled. We are looking forward to future trips to Oklahoma, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

The Webbs will return to Costa Rica at the end of August.


General Assembly in Orlando, Florida

In June, the General Assembly for the Church of the Nazarene was held in hot Orlando, Florida. The Webbs spoke at Apopka Calvary Church of the Nazarene while there but most of the time was spent working at the exhibit hall. A good time was had by all, roaming the huge facility meeting new people, learning about various ministries of the church, and running into old friends. Here you can see the Seminary exhibit booth where Shelley spent most of her time at the GA.




David spoke briefly at the Nazarene Missions International Convention sharing what God has been doing on the MAC South field. Good job, David!




New Deputation Site Released
There is a new way to be linked with the Webbs deputation site to read current news, see the latest photos and to give to the Webb deputation account or to special projects. This will be very convenient for those who like to use a credit card. Please know the site is secure and credit can be given to your local church.
See the site at web.nazarene.org/goto/davidwebb.

Thanks for your prayers and support.
You are a blessing!
The Webb Family David, Shelley, Joshua and Kayley

GA and Beyond

Hello Friends,

Our last blog left off with our time at General Assembly. We ended our time at the GA hearing great preaching on Sunday.
We kept up with the business parts of the meetings by Internet and watched the videos of the elections of the new General Superintendents. We are so pleased that one of the three elected is from Africa. This is the first GS from outside of the USA and it is high time for that since more than 50% of the church population is from outside the USA and Canada.

We enjoyed spending time with David's mom and sister who flew down from Iowa to help us at GA.
Our friend, Jim, was there as well and he helped us by sharing his condo with us for a few days. It was fun to see friends from Central America, for example, our friend Gerardo who is the District leader for Nicaragua South.











On Monday and Tuesday we had fun visiting two of the Disney Parks – Epcot and Magic Kingdom. We would highly recommend Epcot to anyone with kids our ages – 11 and 14.
They loved it all! Magic Kingdom was geared more toward smaller kids and the biggest roller coaster was closed, then add in an entire day of rain, and we decided that Epcot was more our style.


After two days of walking and fun, we loaded up the car once again to head north and west to Iowa. Three long days later, we arrived in Iowa, watched the Ames, Iowa fireworks and then spoke at the Fort Dodge Church on Sunday morning. After a nice lunch with their prayer group, we were glad to arrive safe and sound in Leon (David’s mom’s home) once again.


In our 6 weeks in the USA we have put more than 5000 miles on the van and moved all our stuff in and out of homes/hotels etc… 15 times! We are glad for today – a day with no services and time to catch up on emails and daily work. The kids may even find time to swim at the local pool this afternoon.

We are gearing up for a trip to Olathe, KS on Wednesday and then off to northeast Iowa on Friday. It will be a busy weekend with services on Sunday morning in Cedar Falls and Sunday night in Burlington, IA.

God bless your week! See you down the road!
The Webbs