Cartago

I wrote a post last month about our trip to Cartago with the interns. We had a fun day together - exploring the basilica, taking lots of pictures, talking about our impressions of what we observed, going to a shopping mall in Curridibat (a town between Cartago and San José) and seeing a movie there. Here are some photos of the day:

looking at La Negrita

inside the basilica

we studied each stained glass window

Sarah, from Iowa, Susannah, from Australia, Marcos, from Guatemala, and James, from Canada

Timmy needed to get out and run

James being a crazy gringo and trying to catch a pigeon

Timmy directing the pigeons

near the gardens in the cathedral ruins

at the gate of the ruins

These four interns have been with us since January, and will leave Costa Rica in just five more weeks. We are really thankful for the time we have had with them so far, and were blessed to be able to spend a day exploring part of Costa Rican culture with them.

Updated slideshow

To the right, you can find a slideshow that I just updated today. It includes some of our favorite photos from 2009 so far. Enjoy!

Dan's back!

Dan returned safely from Haiti last week. It’s great to be back together again, and it has been fun for me to hear stories of his trip and to get a broader view of God’s work around the world by finding out more about the Church in Haiti, as well as the Haitian Children’s Home. Dan will try to write a summary of his experiences soon.

Thank you for praying for us during the project trip. While Dan was gone, Timmy stepped into his daddy’s shoes and was my little man of the house.


We did fine while Dan was gone, although Timmy did seem a little confused about where his daddy disappeared to. When I got him up in the morning, he would look around the house as if he was looking for Dan, and he would point to photos of Dan and say variations of “Dada” (my favorite is Diddy-da”). One afternoon when we went into Dan’s office, Timmy walked up to Dan’s desk, turned the empty chair around, and burst into tears! I wondered if he had been thinking that Dan was just working in the office all the time those days. I guess in some ways that was true; his office had just been relocated to Haiti for the week!