We are boarding RIGHT NOW in JFK to come home!!! Everyone is tired and tired of waiting :). We are on flight #715… so check the Delta website for updates on arrival time!
Month: February 2010
Trying to come home..
Our flight is delayed 😦 We are due to fly out of Santo Domingo about an hour behind schedule… 2:30 pm (instead of 1:25). If we leave at 2:30, that cuts our layover (customs, etc.) to only about 40 minutes. At this rate, we may miss our connecting flight from JFK to LAX.
Phillippians 4:13, God of Wonders, and other fun stuff :)
This morning, we had the opportunity to teach Rebekah Holbrook’s class before we leave for the airport 🙂 Here are some pictures at the school:
Kids gathering and getting ready for school…
All lined up for national anthem, morning prayer & announcements…
That’s pretty cool… why don’t we do that in our school???
Awaiting entrance into the classroom 🙂
Last minute prep!
It was so much fun teaching the 35 kids that were there :)! We got to teach them Philippians 4:13 (good job, Elizabeth N.!) and to sing God of Wonders (go, Christine!). The highlight was teaching them random vocabulary words and phrases :). The favorites were: I want to pluck a chicken and I want to do a backflip. HA HA HA!!!
Our flight (Delta #494) is due to leave Santo Domingo at 1:25 pm (9:25 am CA time), flying into JFK at 4:59 pm. At JFK, we go through customs and then fly out on Delta #713, departing at 6:35 pm, arriving into LAX at 10:24 pm. Please pray for us… can’t wait to see you all!!!
Casa Monte Plata
Casa Monte Plata is the orphanage that Rebekah is directly associated with through KidsAlive. There are 4 homes on this property, housing 23 children. If you would like more information on the orphanage or school that Rebekah Holbrook is ministering at, please click here.
Let no one look down on your youthfulness..
What a great time to have some scheduled time with the teens of Templo Biblico. We were glad that some of them wanted to play a part of the Speechless presentation last night… it worked out just right :)! Matthew H. did a good job teaching Youth Group in Spanish 🙂 Rebekah H. said that this is a smaller group than usual, but it was just the right mix for the message! We even had some good conversation with some of the guys, especially Werner and Osiris.
Amazing Beauty
We took a “just for fun” field trip this morning to witness the incredible beauty that God has placed on this corner of the earth! This was a much needed break (from work and from Spanish :)). We had a blast!!!
Experiencing the power of God’s creation!
A time of reflection and devotion…
Jolene made a “new friend”. His name is Fred. Please pray that she will not have to buy a plane ticket to bring him home…
Definitely SPEECHLESS!
Worshipping with Brothers and Sisters of Templo Biblico
If you have ever been in a service in a different language, you would understand when we say that the service this morning was LONG 🙂 No… not long in a bad way, just taxing on the brain. It take a lot of concentration for us to catch the few words that we know in Spanish (in Dominican accent), and then to piece things together to figure out what they are all saying!
Final touches on Speechless props
Our pretty, pretty princess…
Some of the youths that will participate in Speechless later today!
Love you all! Happy Valentine’s Day!!!
VBS Fun :)
Thank you for your prayers for VBS… it was a great hit!!! We had over 200 kids packed into Templo Biblico (the church). They LOVED the “Kids’ Speechless” and the puppets 🙂 We had a great time working with the kids and playing games with them! Take a look:
Templo Biblico teens that came to help out… many of them will be getting trained this afternoon for tomorrow night’s Speechless presentation!
Which one of these is not the same…
Worship Team did a fantastic job!!!
Our Most Valuable (piano) Player 🙂
Balloon Mayhem 🙂 Our kids are the “net” for this game.
- Matthew and company will be training a group of TemploBiblico teens for the Speechless presentation tomorrow night.
- Grace and Jolene are cooking lasagna for 90 people for Date Night.
- Dan and company are building props for Speechless.
- Elizabeth Nichols and friends finishing up a few final touches on the church painting project from yesterday.
- The rest of the group are on the streets passing out flyers and inviting the neighborhood to Speechless.
READY, SET, GO!!!
We worked hard at the church today! Everyone is doing well. The weather doesn’t seem as hot this year as last… mid to low 80’s. Here are a sneak peek of what we were up to today: