Caden's Blog

Still recovering from the trip.  We had a fantastic time, but we did pick up some kind of nasty cold on the way back that's making it hard to be very productive this week.  I did add Caden's blog though to the menu bar of my blog.  Check it out.  It's the cutest, sweetest thing you'll ever read!  My boy loves Jesus and loves to share his thoughts and heart with people!

This is the day the Lord has made!

Today's outreach event was amazing!  PFM hasn't had an outreach event like this since March and the attendance today was way more than expected.  I'll let you know the guesstimated count tomorrow, but it was well over the 200 that I counted at 9:30.  Children and families just kept coming and coming and coming!  It was amazing.  I'm not going to write a ton because I'm exhausted and Josh and I are leading a portion of the worship at church tomorrow. 

The pictures show more than my words could ever tell anyway! (The definitely don't show the large number of people there very well, but you can see the fantastic time everyone was having!)

 The main draw of the outreach was a soccer tournament.  PFM invited several school teams to participate and our Potter's Field Kids club has a team as well.

 Warming up for the tournament

 We had a trampoline and two bouncy houses, a large and small.  This is where my boys spent most of the morning.

 Face painting was a huge hit too!  There were four Ignite interns working at these tables for the entire outreach and the lines were consistently 5 or more long for each of the interns.

 These are mi amigos! They were hilarious trying to jump rope!  The kept taking turns and all three struggled but they were having so much fun!

 Me and my amigos Miguel, Oscar, Angel, and Alex?

 Josh and I got roped into a volleyball game with my very persuasive friend Angel!  Before long there were about 5 boys and 2 girls on each side.  It was so much fun!

 This little cutie was so determined to speak Spanish to me.  It was adorable.  With most of the kids, I could convince them that I only new a little and they would dumb down their spanish for my sake, but not her.  She spoke at full speed telling me all kinds of things I never did understand, but her smile made every moment with her a joy!  We colored together for a while (with the little boy below) and then when she was sad because she wasn't allowed to use the face paint on me I distracted her with selfies (see below)

 He spent probably 20 minutes working on making this picture just perfect!

I'll post more pics tomorrow, until then I will go to bed with a heart overflowing with joy and gratitude.  Today.....was a good day.

Guatemala Day 4

Today was somewhat of a rest day.  Josh and I led worship this morning and then the rest of the day has been spent mostly hanging around the center.  I did go to the artisan market in town with a few of the ladies and did a little bit of sight seeing and bought a few small souvenirs.  It was a blessing to have some "girl time".  While we walked I was able to learn more about the town and some challenges and goals of the ministry to this community.

Josh had some great ministry opportunities here at the center today.  He gave guitar lessons to a couple of the missionaries here and also spent a significant amount of time discussing ministry with the local pastor that we work with here as well as a couple other PFM missionaries.

I was also blessed to spend time with different missionaries and interns throughout the day.

Meanwhile the boys enjoyed the amazing freedom that they have had here in the outdoors.  The property surrounding the center is enclosed by a wall and provides lots of space to run around and just "be boys".

Tomorrow is our biggest outreach of the week.  We have a big day and an early morning ahead of us, so I'm going to keep it short and hold off on pictures today.  Thank you so much for your prayers!  We'd greatly appreciate lots of prayers tomorrow morning.  We're hoping for a couple hundred children and families to attend.  There will be soccer, a bouncy house, face painting, music, free food, and most importantly a Gospel presentation!....I'm sooo excited!!! :)