Wednesday, 3/25
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Yet another beautiful morning in Tijuana! After breakfast, worship and team meeting we all got started on our projects. The painting continued on the parsonage and the church trim. Jimmy fixed a couple of light fixtures in the church and Jason worked on patching the outside walls of the pars
onage. The gray van boys finished the gate into the play area and trimmed a few trees. The rest of us spent the day with paintbrushes in hand. Luis, Andrew and I were on the roofs leaning over painting trim. It would have been really pleasant since it was 80 degrees or so outside but since we were crawling around the roofs, we had jeans on so it got quite warm. However, the views of the city were amazing! Jane spent the day on the scaffolding which we moved to beside the house and Tyler spent the day on a ladder. We need his lon.JPG)
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The only shopping I did today was at a carpet store with Pastor Martin. We found some carpet that looks really nice in the sanctuary and had it installed today for $150. A lot better price then the earlier store we checked! The storefront was a 10 X 10 room with a few piles of remnants around and three books of samples. After negotiating a price, we picked a color we liked, paid and drove back to the church. About an hour later a small pickup showed up with 3 men and the carpet. We were carpeting the main aisle of the sanctuary - a strip 46 inches wide and 42 feet long. They cut up the piece of carpet they brought with them into numerous pieces and laid it all back together without wasting an inch of carpet and had a piece about 12 inches square left over. Kind of a reverse puzzle. It took them about 45 minutes to finish the project and they were on their way again.
We held VBS at the church today. Pastor Martin wants to reach more people in this neighborhood. We distributed 150 flyers on Monday and had about 10 or 12 kids show up for VBS. Not a huge crowd but as I told
Yet another beautiful morning in Tijuana! After breakfast, worship and team meeting we all got started on our projects. The painting continued on the parsonage and the church trim. Jimmy fixed a couple of light fixtures in the church and Jason worked on patching the outside walls of the pars
onage. The gray van boys finished the gate into the play area and trimmed a few trees. The rest of us spent the day with paintbrushes in hand. Luis, Andrew and I were on the roofs leaning over painting trim. It would have been really pleasant since it was 80 degrees or so outside but since we were crawling around the roofs, we had jeans on so it got quite warm. However, the views of the city were amazing! Jane spent the day on the scaffolding which we moved to beside the house and Tyler spent the day on a ladder. We need his lon.JPG)
g reach!The only shopping I did today was at a carpet store with Pastor Martin. We found some carpet that looks really nice in the sanctuary and had it installed today for $150. A lot better price then the earlier store we checked! The storefront was a 10 X 10 room with a few piles of remnants around and three books of samples. After negotiating a price, we picked a color we liked, paid and drove back to the church. About an hour later a small pickup showed up with 3 men and the carpet. We were carpeting the main aisle of the sanctuary - a strip 46 inches wide and 42 feet long. They cut up the piece of carpet they brought with them into numerous pieces and laid it all back together without wasting an inch of carpet and had a piece about 12 inches square left over. Kind of a reverse puzzle. It took them about 45 minutes to finish the project and they were on their way again.
We held VBS at the church today. Pastor Martin wants to reach more people in this neighborhood. We distributed 150 flyers on Monday and had about 10 or 12 kids show up for VBS. Not a huge crowd but as I told
Pastor Martin, if we reach even one with the love of Jesus, it will be worth the effort. At least one of the families talked to Pastor Martin about coming to church so… succ.JPG)
ess! Having VBS at the church eliminated travel time so after we wrapped up VBS the youth- ours and the locals, got up a game of hockey in the parking lot using an old pair of golf clubs and a tennis ball. Very entertaining and no people or property damaged in the process!
After dinner we had an hour of kick back time until we had our evening worship/team meeting. We have a tradition of doing a prayer/healing service on Wednesday eve. After some opening singing and prayer, Pastor Martin gave a great message about recognizing God’s sacrifice and seeing His hand in our lives and then we gave everyone the opportunity to have a time of prayer with Pastor Martin or Kelly or with other members of the team. It was a powerful time of healing with much praying and many tears. The service ended at about 10:30 with lots of hugs and, after taking a collection for the church here, everyone trundled off to bed.
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ess! Having VBS at the church eliminated travel time so after we wrapped up VBS the youth- ours and the locals, got up a game of hockey in the parking lot using an old pair of golf clubs and a tennis ball. Very entertaining and no people or property damaged in the process!After dinner we had an hour of kick back time until we had our evening worship/team meeting. We have a tradition of doing a prayer/healing service on Wednesday eve. After some opening singing and prayer, Pastor Martin gave a great message about recognizing God’s sacrifice and seeing His hand in our lives and then we gave everyone the opportunity to have a time of prayer with Pastor Martin or Kelly or with other members of the team. It was a powerful time of healing with much praying and many tears. The service ended at about 10:30 with lots of hugs and, after taking a collection for the church here, everyone trundled off to bed.
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