We welcomed back Living Hope Baptist Church from Bowling Green, KY. This was the team's 14th year in a row coming to Costa Rica! We love having them and love the relationship that we have with them!
Check out their week!
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| 2016 Living Hope Baptist Team |
We started out the week with dinner at our house--Got to use the smoker to smoke some meat--YUM!!
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| Shredding the meat |
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| Dinner |
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| Fellowship |
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| Packing gift bags for Spaghetti Outreach in Rio Azul |
After church, the team had lunch and a piñata party with the children's homes!
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| Preparing for lunch |
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| The AWESOME piñata made for us! |
Sunday night the team did a Spaghetti Dinner outreach in Rio Azul. They fed close to 200+ people
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| Getting a walking tour of Rio Azul |
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| Dennis Strom sharing the Word |
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| More of the community |
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| The team setting up for the dinner after the Word |
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| Dr. Don Brown putting his mad serving skills to work! |
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| The kitchen cookers and preparers! |
Then Monday we started the real work. They worked on the gazebo and getting all of the foundations laid down--plumbing, electrical and skeleton of the structure.
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| Digging the electrical line |
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| The beginning phase of the gazebo |
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| We even make the kids work!!! |
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| The finished skeleton! Good work! |
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Emily had a special project to paint the cajone for Kenji and the youth group
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We also cut and sanded lots and LOTS of wood to put in the daycare hallways
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| Donna and Savannah measured and Carly cut. WOMAN POWER! |
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| Everyone loves sanding! |
Maggie is a beautician and she gave all the children's homes kids haircuts! What a blessing!
Some of the ladies on the team wanted to do activities with the daycare! They did an awesome job and the kids LOVED the activities!
And of course, we ended the week seeing God's beauty on our Fun Day. This year they went ziplining and to the Hot Springs in Arenal! It was beautiful!
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| Hanging out in the hot springs of Baldi |
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| The whole team zip lining! FUN!! |
Maggie was able to raise money to donate on her trip. She decided to buy food in bulk to donate to our sister church in Rio Azul. What a BLESSING!!!
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| The front of Rio Azul church, Iglesia Faro de Esperanza |
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| The ladies of the church with the donations |
We love having this team come back every year! Their hearts to serve are amazing!
Thank you Living Hope!
In HIM,
the crawfords
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