Dear Friends, September 29, 2007

A lot has been going on since our last letter. Summer is a busy time for us, as this is when most mission trips and visitors come through. We helped host, at various locations, a half dozen short term mission trips and played host to more than a dozen visitors in Granada, many here to evaluate joining our work on a permanent basis. The trips ranged from a month long stay in the jungles of Costa Rica to a week of ministry by 40 high school students in and around a dump in Nicaragua. In all, we've helped to bring some 200 volunteers to Central America to help on various projects this summer.

In these photos, you see Carlos helping a group navigate the waters of the San Juan River in Costa Rica, and a group of college students from Florida who ministered to the children in a forgotten mine town (who had never seen a missionary before).

In addition to work, there was time for fun. Days in the barrio culminated in an impromptu soccer match on the street. Sometimes the local livestock get involved, too. Below you can see a feeding program in one of the barrios in Granada. On went the work, the sharing and the caring.