El Tineco

Yesterday we spent the morning in El Tineco. We were the first group of white people who have ever visited the school there. The teachers were so grateful for what we brought and that we cared about their students when no one else ever had.

After their wonderful program we broke into our 3 work groups. Those who were working on water filters stayed in El Tineco and worked at Gustavo's house. Gustavo is part of Free a Family and Tom and Kris sponsor him so Kris was very excited to spend the morning with him and work at his house. The other 2 groups built a fence around a church and continued to work on the road.

After working, we all me for a farm tour. We walked around Edon's farm and saw all his fruit trees and coffee plants. After that we enjoyed lunch before heading to La Palmera for our last day of VBS with those kiddos. Let me tell you, it was hard to leave them!

On our way home we stopped at the church in Monte Margarita to officially present them with the chairs that they purchased with money we sent.

I was asked to give a little more explanation on the desks in La Palmera. A few weeks before we left, we sent money to Moises to divide amongst the schools. In La Palmera they decided to use their money to buy new desks. They had them for a few days before we came but kept them in a different location so that the students wouldn't use them until we were there to present them. They had stenciled Pease on each one and that was very touching for us. Moises told them to be very careful with them and not to write on them because we'll be back to check on them next year.

Please pray for the health of our team. Quite a few of us have not been feeling well the last day or two. The food we are eating in the villages is hard for our stomachs to handle.

We're off to Esperanza Miralta in a few minutes. Here are some photos from yesterday.