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Our home church, Cape Bible Chapel was our second team, and first full week team. It was so nice to see friends and familiar faces again. This last week was a good learning process for all of us. Our team here, learned so much about hosting and organizing. And the CBC team is going back, all 20 of them, changed for life, I'm sure of it. We started the week off with some intense concrete work. We poured the footings for the next 2 classrooms. Normally there is about 12 Haitians for the job and they start at about 7 and don't get done till around 6 a lot of times. The 5 Haitians that were there were confident that we wouldn't get done and were very worried and nervous about having what they thought was to be 20 lazy Americans, 12 out of that 20 being girls. We sure proved them wrong. I have never worked around a harder working group of individuals in my life. It's well over 100 with humidity and yet ever single person worked above and beyond their potential. The workers were absolutely floored when we finished the job in only5 hours. The rest of the week was equally productive, as we painted the entire existing four classrooms inside and out. As well as getting a chance to build a little Dominican style with block and mortar. They were also heavily challenged each night to rethink life in light of the poverty they saw first hand everyday. I am confident that every single person will now look at their own life a little different now. I'm not a prophet but I also know some amazing things are going to come out of this trip for them. We pushed hard on child sponsorship, on other needs here, and the needs back home. If you know someone who went on the trip I encourage you to talk to them and ask them how their life has changed forever. Congratulations CBC on an amazing week here in our country. We love you all and can't wait to see you again.

We here by claim this street

I'm still devising a plan on how to go about stealing this sign.

No, really I am. The problem is its on a really busy street in Puerto Plata, and Dominicans never go to bed. I've never seen people party in the middle of the street all night long.

Our first team

We had our first team! They were only here for 2 days, and there was only 6 of them, but it was a good introduction to the busy schedule and very large groups we have ahead of us this year. This project was constructing a temporary roof for the new bathrooms,(that will eventually be tied into the classrooms) and also mixing concrete by hand and pouring a sidwalk. The neatest thing that happened though, was, there were only 6 of them, but they have already comitted to sponsoring 4 kids!!!!! They are taking back 10 pictures to their church and plan to get every kid sponsored. Now that's a story worth telling!!!

Our animals

We have 3 animal friends that live with us, although they are not all freinds with eachother. We got 2 pure breed boxers from some missionaries who were heading back to the states. Dillon is 5 she is the mama, and has the gold hair. Kila is the daughter. When she was a puppy she was hit by a car. She is now the cutest 3/4 dog I've ever met. She is 1 years old