my life in pictures

It has been three months since I last blogged.... here is a brief tour of my life since then.

I have been working a lot on my house, including getting this razor wire put up. This is the view if you are standing up in the latrine. As one person put it, but beautiful and ugly at the same time. I also had a small mold scare in my bedroom, but that seems to have subsided since my landlord repainted. I bought some cement blocks to make a book shelf in the living room and now I feel like I'm living in a palace.



Time in the 'hood. This is one of my neighbors who sells fruit and vegetables. This day she was selling oranges. Maureen and I have been getting to know a family that has been going through a crisis these past couple months. A mother was going to have to leave her kids home alone to fend for themselves while she spent a month in the hospital getting an operation. Some of here children are grown and live in a different community, two live in children's homes and two of here daughters, ages 6 and 12 live with her. We prayed with her and her daughters the night before she was going to the hospital. I don't know if she was healed or if her condition is changing, but now she will not have to have the operation until next year. For now the crisis has been averted.

I went to Belize for a short exploratory trip, visiting a ministry that is doing a church plant and school in a poor neighborhood in Belize City. These are two of the girls we met. It is surprisingly difficult to get around Central America. You can fly between most of the capitals, but it will cost you an arm and a leg. We took 4 buses, a boat, walked, hitch hiked and took a taxi to get there, and it took us 2 days.