Joshua Expedition Team #2-California

On Valentine's Day, we hosted another  Joshua Expeditions team hailing from California. We had 38 staff and students from a Christian High School.  They were some workin' kids.  After having a red-eye flight and arriving in Costa Rica at 6 something in the morning, they ate breakfast and headed towards the Abraham Project. They worked hard all day!

They helped us move wood to the new bodega, helped us move large rock, small rock and sand for a treatment facility for a septic tank, dig a trench, wheelbarrow dirt from the trench, move some roof materials, and sand some metal bars.  We also let them play soccer and just take in the beauty around the project.  They were a really great team of hard working, respectable and downright good kids.  The director, Ms. Karen should be very proud of her students.

One of her students and his family blessed the Abraham Project with about 4 suitcases of donations--everything from clothing to thermometers and everything in between.  What a blessing it was! Thank you Brandon and your family!

What a great group....here are a few pictures of their day!

Playing soccer after break

Moving wood to the new bodega on Phase 2

Moving the laminas to another location to access behind the bodega--and yes, those are medical gurneys

Here is the ditch they played in!

Castillo-one of the workers at the AP

Sanding and more sanding

These girls were bosses! Shoveling 190 wheelbarrows full of rock and sand!

Where everyone was working in the bodega

All we need is a roof--this is the future church

Pushing the wood up the hill

Digging, digging and more digging

Shoveling, shoveling and more shoveling.

Throughout the whole day, they were troopers!  I don't think I heard a grunt, groan or complaint from one of them...and I kept them motivated by saying, "just think, this time tomorrow, you will be white water rafting!"  I definitely think these kids deserved it!

Although it was not a normal Valentine's Day for Bruce and I, we couldn't have picked a better way to show love than to host a team and to do work, without grumbling, to grow The Kingdom!

Thanks Joshua Expeditions and the kids from California--you know who you are!

In HIM,
the crawfords