This was the last team of busy season, and a first for this team to come to the Abraham Project. It was the very end of busy team season and God sent us a team that really loved on us in all our imperfections and just being tired at the end of busy season--some great prayer and love!
We were so thankful to them and what they brought to the Abraham Project!
Check out their week!
When the team first arrived, we took them to good ol' Rosti Pollos for some typical Costa Rican food!
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| Enjoying the casados! |
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| The TEAM! (and a dog or two) |
Of course, we always do the tour for the teams and we also include the Phase 2 tour!
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| Explaining the entrance of Phase 2 |
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| Te obligatory Phase 2 picture (with a dog) |
After the tours, the team got right to work in Children's ministry. They did a great job with stories and activities and really interacted with the kids a lot! All the kids loved Pastor Martin (from Venezuela)....I can see why he is a youth pastor--kid at heart!
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| Working on bracelets |
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| one n one time with the team! |
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| The finished product! |
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| Pastor Martin storytelling! |
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| With the older kids, it was all about making bracelets |
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| Working seriously hard! |
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| The kids LOVE to play with Play-doh |
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| Making animals for the Creation story! |
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| Pastor Martin doing what he does best--engage the kids! |
We also did games in the afternoon with the older kids. Of course, the popular 9-square is always a good time for the kids and for the teams!
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| 9-square with the older kids |
Every afternoon, we got to hear from the missionary families and hear how they got the Costa Rica and share some of their testimonies.
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| Always a fun time during missionary share time! |
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| Steve and Georgiana sharing with the group |
There was a little bit of work for the team--nothing too major, but helped us out a lot with all the maintenance on the property!
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| Loving the yard work! |
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| Rainy season=lots of mowing! |
We also did some maintenance with re-painting the parking lot.
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| Rachel really is having a good time..... |
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| My kind of work! |
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| Leyton even got to help with some of the work! |
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| We helped wash the children's home cars--always needed during rainy season! |
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| We also took time to wash the tables and chairs of the daycare--this hardly ever gets done--but it was a holiday and the daycare was closed, so we took advantage! |
For the team's fun day, they went to Arenal and went ziplining and to Baldi Hot Springs. It was a fun day for everyone!
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| Obligatory team photo in the cool gear! |
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| They had a beautiful view of Arenal Volcano! |
On Sunday, the team went to church, had lunch and played with the children's homesand then later went to the cell group
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| They clean up real nice! |
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| Playground time with the kids! |
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| The snake song! |
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| Cell group with Omry singing |
It was a great time with FCC of Effingham! We had a good week and lots of last minute changes, but everyone was flexible and rolled with the punches. They did whatever we asked and we had some great connections and talks with the team! So thankful for this new relationship!
In HIM,
the crawfords
Thanks for the awesome week! see you in two years.
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