On our way home

We are sitting in the Miami airport waiting for our connecting flight! We still have a little over an hour...had 5 when we landed. Everyone is ready to be home and we are all hoping and praying we have no trouble leaving once our flight is called! Already will be 8:30ish before we get there. Will have more pictures once I am home and can find some time.

We are planning on doing the newsletter with (I hope) an article from everyone on the team. It will take a little while to collect them all and them put them together for the newsletter but be on the lookout! It was a fruitful...enjoyable tip and hope it reflects that.

CYA in a few....love all of us!

Sorry this took so long but I was in the middle of uploading the pictures last night when the wi-fi went out and did not come back up until this afternooon! Hope you enjoy them!

Today is Wednesday and it was another hard working, busy but fruitful day! I worked the construction site today tying rebar for columns to pour concrete in for the start of the 2nd floor. Not hard but standing on the open floor of the start of the 2nd floor on scaffolding is not one of my favorite things to do. Wednesday the church has a women's group that comes to the church to pray for the teams working and then we met with and prayed with them for a few minutes. It is always nice when we can meet and spend time with some of the people! After lunch another woman came with jewelry to sell...bought some of course!

The VBS topic of the day was Daniel and the Lion's Den...the kids made lion faces and had a lot of fun. Monday was Noah's Ark, Tuesday was the story of the Lost Sheep, tomorrow will be the resurrection story (or something similar...we have older kids that day and Friday will be Jonah!

Putting pictures in for today....will add more later.

Travel Day

I never did update on our departure issues...and there were many! First when we got ready to check in we were told as of that day there was an embargo on plastic totes (we had 4 full of VBS supplies) so Kerry and Lori had to run to Wal-mart to purchase suitcases so we could swap out the supplies. They made it back with a couple of minutes to spare! Then once we got to Miami...we boarded just fine but had to wait for late arrivals before takeoff...they were all boarded and seated...we started down the runway and a storm hit so we had to wait. Well we waited until the pilot decided it wasn't going to stop soon and we were low on the amount of take off fuel he likes so we went back. Sat there while we waited on the fuel truck (which took forever) and it was then decided that by the time we got to Ecuador the flight crew would be way past the hours they are permitted to work so...we deboarded! It is now the time we should have been landing and we are waiting on a new flight crew. We all volunteered to serve the coffee and cokes but they did not take us up on it so we continued to wait! They finally got the needed people and we re-boarded! Well....then there was no available push us off thingy so we...again...waited! It showed up and amazingly...we finally took off!!! Got to Ecuador around 1 in the morning but was 2:30 by the time we got to our rooms. But...God is good...we made it safe and sound!

Us

See Cheryl...Matt is here! Jonathan and Melissa playing on the playground, Katie and Christian as animals, arriving at Mama Yoly's and leaving Mama Yoly's

Today all 4 females and Brantley went to a small day care in the south of Quito to do VBS. We had 45 kids from 3-5 in the morning and then more than 50 from the neighborhood in the afternoon. The morning went pretty well with Noah's Ark complete with boat, water, mountain and rainbow! The kids were the animals...they really liked being the animals. The afternoon was way over 50 kids (they told us 45) and much rowdier than the morning group but we still had fun!

Everyone else went to the construction site to put a concrete roof on the 1st floor of the new building (or I guess you could call it the floor of the 2nd). They just got back so not sure yet how it went.

Tomorrow it is the same thing although the names and faces may change from the different jobs.

Pictures from Mama Yoly's