Happy Day of Cultures!

After Emily recovered from a lovely bit of flu, we jumped right into work this week. We continue to work on promotions that will go out to supporters of Roblealto. We also got a tour of the Arco Iris house at the temporary shelter which will be rebuilt this summer by several volunteer groups including Ridgewood. This house is 40 years old, is rotting and smelly, is too small and poorly laid out for the new laws such as space needed for disabled children, etc. So it will be a major project and one of our jobs is to write the project proposal that will go out to churches and foundations to help raise the funds! We also are working on getting information to contact churches that are supporting Roblealto so we can invite them to come visit this year on a missions trips. We came into the office today even though it's a holiday (Day of Cultures, here, a little more politically correct than Columbus Day!) We're hoping to get in touch with some churches, though they may be closed today as well!

We continue taking little day trips on Saturdays, most recently to the rainforest about 30 minutes from our house and to the Orosi Valley to see the ruins of the oldest church in Costa Rica. We went to our favorite Spanish-speaking church on Sunday, Cuidad de Dios. We LOVE worship there - it is incredibly energetic. Click on the following link to see! video The youth group does choreographed dancing during the songs - it's just so much fun! And the preaching is very good - it's good practice in Spanish for us as well! We like hanging out with Lizzy and Pame who are part of our department and all of their friends.

We appreciate all of your prayers. Please continue praying! We started with our tutor this week, which will be a big help as we continue to learn the language. Please pray for the 15 volunteer groups we would like to have for 2010 and, of course, the funding that needs to come in for all those projects! We miss Minnesota very much, though not the snow that you all got this week! Much love!