March

That's right.  We are back tracking all the way to the month of March!  Two big events took place for us, a team visit and a family visit.

Team Visit

This was our third time receiving a team from Mountain Christian Church!  We have really enjoyed getting to meet so many different people from this church, as well as deepening relationships by seeing some of the same faces each trip.  We are still amazed at the impact one small church from New Mexico can have on an entire community on the outskirts of Sucre, Bolivia.  

The theme of their visit this time was discovering your gifts and talents.  Each team that comes to Sucre through FH always raises money for a project that they are apart of while they are here.  Many times it is a building project of some kind, but this team was apart of something different.  Going along with the theme, the team's money went towards the start of three "discovering your talents schools."  A soccer school for 7 to 15 year olds,  a dance school, and a sewing school for mothers in the community.  Many of the kids in the Horna C'kasa neighborhood lack the opportunities to develop the gifts and talents that God has given them.  Now they have something productive to be apart of, giving them hope, and encouraging them that with hard work they can accomplish their dreams.  

Family Visit

A week after we said good-bye to Mountain Christian Church, we welcomed Jennie's parents, Steve and Carmen, to Bolivia.  This was their first visit to Sucre, as well as their first time meeting Lydia.  We had a wonderful time sharing our lives with them.  They were able to visit Pastor Pancho's "soup kitchen" as well as the learning center up in Alta Munyapata, a poor neighborhood outside of Sucre.  Calvary Baptist Church in Yankton South Dakota, Steve and Carmen's home church, has been a partner with this area, and a blessing to this neighborhood.   Later, we all traveled to Santa Cruz together for a few days of relaxing.  One morning, Steve and Carmen helped by watching Ella while we spent a few hours at the US Consulate getting Lydia's US citizenship papers all sorted out.  We had a great time and are so thankful they were able to make the long trip down to Bolivia.