Buenos Dias! Argentina Day 4

Hey All,

Today marks day four in our travels to Pilar Argentina! We have had a busy four days, and the weather continues to get hotter and hotter everyday. On Sunday, our Eagle Naz team was able to join with a few other team members from other churches and head over to our sister church in Sourdeaux to work on the church plant that Eagle Naz helped fund. What an amazing experience! We were able to prepare the grounds that the church is going to be built on by digging up dirt and preparing it for concrete. Talk about sweat! But what a blessing to be able to be invested in something that will affect the community of Sordeaux for hopefully many years! We were also able to meet a family that is a part of the Sourdeaux church that has 10 children ranging from 7 months to 22 years old....And they all love the Lord in such a way that is hard to describe in words - because they have so little and still give so much of themselves. There was a team that was able to return today to do more work on the church and also re-roof this family's home, along with adding tile, and a new beam that had rotted. On Sunday night, we didn't show the Jesus film like I thought we were going to, rather we showed a film that gave the testimony of a guy named Felix, that used to be a drug warlord for the Columbia Cartel. His testimony told of him spending majority of his life torturing and killing people, then of him getting caught when he moved to Miami, FL when he started selling drugs. He met his wife while in prison - and married while he was still in prison. She was a Christian, and prayed for him for 7 years to come to the Lord, and when he did his testimony has made such an impact that he has led multitudes of people to Christ. The reason we showed this particular film, was to promote him coming to the area and speaking next Sunday to the Argentina community. Okay - it's getting late, but we would covet your prayers for safety and health as the temp continues to rise and everyone is working so hard we are so excited to see how the Lord will continue to move over the next week and a half!
Jerry and Randy getting ready to work hard!
The Sourdeaux construction site


Pastor Annibal of the Sourdeaux church giving a sermon
The little 7 month old baby of the family with 10 kids - what a cutie!

Argentina Day 2

Hey All,

No pictures today-but I'm hoping to get some up either tomorrow or monday...Well, we arrived safely in Argentina yesturday afternoon (cankles and all after the long hours of sitting!) And we went straight to work-Wende and I on the Internet Cafe picking up where we left off in June; and Husband and Travis scoping out the construction site to get ready to manage all of the construction crews on Monday. The weather has been beautiful here! Cool in the mornings and evenings and not too hot during the day. Most of the team came in today - around 150 people - and the rest (about 35 more) come in tomorrow. After an EXTREMELY LONG orientation/registration meeting tonight we discovered that our church (eagle naz) was going to be heading out to our church plant "sordoeaux" leaving at 1:00 pm on Sunday - but not returning until midnight! It sounds like it might be a long day - they basically told us to ditch our normal Sunday wear and dress casual/work wear because we were going to be working and showing the Jesus film that night. I'm excited! Not so much for getting grubby, but I have never gotten to see the Jesus film, and to experience watching it with a crowd of possible non-believers, let's just pray for the Lord to truly work miracles in people's hearts through that experience! Okay-that's it for tonight,

Chow!

Argentina Bound!

A picture of the project we are going to be working on (a convention center to house and educate pastors from the S. American Region)

Happy 2008! This Thursday morning Husband and I will board a plane headed to Buenos Aires Argentina! I am only going for a week, but Husband is staying for 2 1/2 weeks. We are going to help finish a project with the organization "Extreme Nazarene" that has been a few years in the making. To find out more about Extreme Nazarene you can go to their website at: www.extremenazarene.org. Please pray for safe travel for us, and for me as a mom-leaving my two boys....let's just say I'm trying not to think about it! We feel so blessed to be able to go and be on the mission field serving the Lord! Check back for further pics and reports once we get back! Adios Amigos :)

Holiday Photo-montage

It has been a busy couple of weeks for us-so I thought that I would catch you all up with a photo reel of our holiday events....From having Christmas with the Kinney’s & Hogans, to Christmas with the Haverfield’s, to going sledding in Mccall and all of the fam hanging out for new years-we feel so blessed to have finished our year w/so many fun memories-then to start the new year w/so many more! We hope that Christ will fill your lives w/his abundant love to an overflowing measure this new year!

Cute 2-story home with a view...

We were invited over to the Buck Family Annual Gingerbread House Making Party the other night, and as you can see we had a great time creating our very first Christmas gingerbread house! I had never gotten to really make one before, so Husband and I went crazy, letting the creative juices flow....What can beat Christmas candy, hot chocolate, and friends? Oh, and they hired a babysitter to watch the kiddos-so we also had uninterrupted "adult time" for an hour! Lot's of fun.
Our lovely 100% edible home
Our little Peanut entertaining us on the hearth with his Christmas toy that sings, sings, and yes sings some more-all by the push of a little button!

1st Real Snow

So today marked our first official "snow day" of the year, and definitely made the season feel a little more like Christmas. Here are some pictures of our home and the snow outside. I feel like I'm not quite ready - and am dreading doing my Christmas shopping last minute along with everyone else. But, I feel constantly reminded of how blessed we are, and how amazing our Lord and Savior is! I hope that you all are enjoying this time and allowing Christ to fill your homes with his abundant love. We want to wish you all a very happy (early) Merry Christmas!
a look out our front door at the new snow...
My first year of having a nativity set to put out-I was so excited!
fun festive stockings!
And I couldn't leave out an updated photo of my adorable niece Big Mak and her awesome pink hat! How cute is she?

Thanksgiving on the coast

Hey all-sorry it's been awhile since my last post, I'm blaming on a nasty sinus infection that's had me down since Thanksgiving! So, here are some pics from our wonderful holiday trip to the coast of beautiful Newport, Oregon to visit Husband's folks Jerry and Judy in their lovely home. Husband's 2 aunts, grandma and cousins all made it over for Thanksgiving dinner so we had a great time!
The family day at the beach
Aunt and Uncle Hogan with our little rascal
The "boys" on their big pheasant hunting day!
Husband and I trying out our rusty piano skills
Our little munchkin looking for more to eat...We don't feed him much...:)