August 27, 2009
The team had a very busy day yesterday working with many different people in San Pedro. We went to the public school here in San Pedro #168 Provinco. This was the first time that the Church Iglesia Eben Ezer was allowed to visit the children in the school. We taught hygiene, washing hands, germs, clean teeth, wordless book about God and the three legged stool. Many, many students – kindergarten through seventh grade about 200!! It was a little crazy and but we got through all the teachings and the teachers and students really enjoyed it. Today we will visit the Guarani village after teaching in two more schools today. We heard an inspiring teaching last night at church from Pastor Jorge and truly felt God’s spirit there with all of us. Thank you for your prayers!
Blessings from beautiful San Pedro!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Wednesday August 26th
Wednesday August 26th
Today is another beautiful morning in San Pedro. The team has gathered this morning for a small breakfast of café con leche and pastries with dulce de leche. Time for devotion and then we are all off at 9am to do our work. Today we (the women) are going to a school where we will be teaching the hygiene classes again, but this time to 200 children in the morning and 200 in the afternoon. We are looking forward to this! The men are going into the Guarani village to work on the tanks. Last night, we made 200 faith bracelets for the colony school that we will be teaching at later in the week. Everyone is doing well and really enjoying meeting the people here in San Pedro. Pastor Guillermo and his wife Diane are wonderful people who have dedicated so much to the Lord. Please keep them in your prayers. We so appreciate your prayers as the Lord is truly with us each day.
Dios te Bendigo.
Sharon
Today is another beautiful morning in San Pedro. The team has gathered this morning for a small breakfast of café con leche and pastries with dulce de leche. Time for devotion and then we are all off at 9am to do our work. Today we (the women) are going to a school where we will be teaching the hygiene classes again, but this time to 200 children in the morning and 200 in the afternoon. We are looking forward to this! The men are going into the Guarani village to work on the tanks. Last night, we made 200 faith bracelets for the colony school that we will be teaching at later in the week. Everyone is doing well and really enjoying meeting the people here in San Pedro. Pastor Guillermo and his wife Diane are wonderful people who have dedicated so much to the Lord. Please keep them in your prayers. We so appreciate your prayers as the Lord is truly with us each day.
Dios te Bendigo.
Sharon
Work Begins
Tuesday the 25th
Today we started out by going to the local school, which allowed us to teach hygiene to approximately 60 students, teachers and staff. The mayor that we met the previous day wrote a letter to all the local schools introducing us and allowing us to visit the school and to teach hygiene and talk about God. Each of us participated in the training, Cathy and Sharon, with a lot of help from Elizabet, did the sections on germs, including how they are transferred, how to wash hands, and how flies transfer the germs to our food. Diana, Pastor Guillermo’s wife, did the community mapping with the students and Howard and I did the section on tooth care. Elizabet’s husband Walter, did the faith bracelets and did a great job. At the end the pastor prayed for the school and the staff as well as giving a short message. Afterwards we took pictures and signed a book that they keep with the history of the school. We were able to go back to the hotel and give them a picture to include in the book.
In the afternoon, after another lunch of pizza and empanadas, Pastor Jorge and his team from Parana arrived as did the tanks that we had shipped from Parana. After greets and meets with his team, the men started work on building the stand for the tanks, and the women again did what ever it is that they do….
Almost finished the stand when Pastor Jorge insisted we go to dinner and get to bed. It was a long trip for them as it took them12 hours from Parana to get to San Pedro. His team included Diego, Victor, Emmanuel, Angie, Sophie, Berlin, and Florencia. We really want to thank them for coming and to keep them in prayer while they are here as well as their trip back to Parana.
All for now, today we install the stand and tank, do water testing and visit another school. The week started off going slow but not is starting to speed by.
God Bless from Argentina
David
Today we started out by going to the local school, which allowed us to teach hygiene to approximately 60 students, teachers and staff. The mayor that we met the previous day wrote a letter to all the local schools introducing us and allowing us to visit the school and to teach hygiene and talk about God. Each of us participated in the training, Cathy and Sharon, with a lot of help from Elizabet, did the sections on germs, including how they are transferred, how to wash hands, and how flies transfer the germs to our food. Diana, Pastor Guillermo’s wife, did the community mapping with the students and Howard and I did the section on tooth care. Elizabet’s husband Walter, did the faith bracelets and did a great job. At the end the pastor prayed for the school and the staff as well as giving a short message. Afterwards we took pictures and signed a book that they keep with the history of the school. We were able to go back to the hotel and give them a picture to include in the book.
In the afternoon, after another lunch of pizza and empanadas, Pastor Jorge and his team from Parana arrived as did the tanks that we had shipped from Parana. After greets and meets with his team, the men started work on building the stand for the tanks, and the women again did what ever it is that they do….
Almost finished the stand when Pastor Jorge insisted we go to dinner and get to bed. It was a long trip for them as it took them12 hours from Parana to get to San Pedro. His team included Diego, Victor, Emmanuel, Angie, Sophie, Berlin, and Florencia. We really want to thank them for coming and to keep them in prayer while they are here as well as their trip back to Parana.
All for now, today we install the stand and tank, do water testing and visit another school. The week started off going slow but not is starting to speed by.
God Bless from Argentina
David
Monday, August 24, 2009
Monday
Have been working on Internet for the past hour, connection not to good so not sure if we will be able to download pictures.
Today, weather a bit warmer, the last couple of days have not been exactly tropical. We are wishing we had brought ski clothes but getting better.
Last night we were at the church and gave talk on belonging to God´s family, went really well and all of us participated. Empanadas at 11, pretty good at that time of night but they are always good.
Today we went met the mayor of San Pedro and is wanting to do a program to use a mobile purifier and go from village to village. The city is committed to buying tanks for each village and then a team consisting of doctors, nurses etc can do the purifier at the same time. He is very pleased at the installation at the hospital and that has inspired him to continue the program in the villages. We provided him with the New Life International informaiton and DVD of the installation. We also discussed with Peace Plan and our mission while in San Pedro. Olrando, the mayor is very committed to the people of San Pedro and is working on the major giants in the community.
This afternoon we went to the hospital and had a tour with the director. We saw the installation of the first purifier and with a couple of corrections, they are on their way to clean water. They have their maintenance man in charge of the purifier and he is well versed in the installation and operation.
Tonight as I said, been working on getting this blog posted, next is dinner at people from the church, another Asada....
Pastor Jorge is making his way to San Pedro, they had problems with the van and have moved to plan two, which involves a bus and a car to get them here. Looks line Victor, Diego, Pastor Jorge, Floriencie, Berlin and Angie will be coming. Also, the tanks are somewhere between here and Parana, sound familiar? Hope to see all tomorrow, including the tanks, pray for their safe trip as we are so excited to see them.
All for now, will attempt to update tomorrow night. Will upload pictures when we get a better connection. Not sure when that will be but you all will have to use your imagination.
God´s Plan, God´s Purpose
David and Team
Today, weather a bit warmer, the last couple of days have not been exactly tropical. We are wishing we had brought ski clothes but getting better.
Last night we were at the church and gave talk on belonging to God´s family, went really well and all of us participated. Empanadas at 11, pretty good at that time of night but they are always good.
Today we went met the mayor of San Pedro and is wanting to do a program to use a mobile purifier and go from village to village. The city is committed to buying tanks for each village and then a team consisting of doctors, nurses etc can do the purifier at the same time. He is very pleased at the installation at the hospital and that has inspired him to continue the program in the villages. We provided him with the New Life International informaiton and DVD of the installation. We also discussed with Peace Plan and our mission while in San Pedro. Olrando, the mayor is very committed to the people of San Pedro and is working on the major giants in the community.
This afternoon we went to the hospital and had a tour with the director. We saw the installation of the first purifier and with a couple of corrections, they are on their way to clean water. They have their maintenance man in charge of the purifier and he is well versed in the installation and operation.
Tonight as I said, been working on getting this blog posted, next is dinner at people from the church, another Asada....
Pastor Jorge is making his way to San Pedro, they had problems with the van and have moved to plan two, which involves a bus and a car to get them here. Looks line Victor, Diego, Pastor Jorge, Floriencie, Berlin and Angie will be coming. Also, the tanks are somewhere between here and Parana, sound familiar? Hope to see all tomorrow, including the tanks, pray for their safe trip as we are so excited to see them.
All for now, will attempt to update tomorrow night. Will upload pictures when we get a better connection. Not sure when that will be but you all will have to use your imagination.
God´s Plan, God´s Purpose
David and Team
Sunday in San Pedro
Sunday in San Pedro, Argentina
Rained pretty hard last night so early to the village was postponed as there was lighting and thunder during the night.I did not hear anything, everyone else woke up. Sleep good, not frogs…yet.
Today Cathy, Sharon and Elizabet went to the market to buy food for lunch and then they were going to meet Pastor Guellermo, Howard and me at the Gurani village. Wires got crossed and it turned out that the girls went shopping with Fernando, Pastor Howard and I went to the village to see what to expect for the rest of the week. After surveying the village, we felt pretty comfortable about installing the purifier, not so sure about the source of water. After discussing with the team, the water that they are drinking will be better if purified…..no mater where it is currently sourced. Pastor gave a short message at the church in the village, we toured the village and their houses, garden, cistern, latrine and the overall grounds.
After the tour of the village we went back to the hotel where we had Asado with our team, Elizabet, Pastor and his family, and Fernando. Great food but we almost did not have as Sharon and Cathy were left in charge of the grill while Fernando went to the store, and while he was gone, they thought it would be the perfect opportunity to go up stairs and do what ever women do. When Fernando came back he said that we were lucky the dogs had not eaten our lunch as there are a few lurking around.
Currently we are preparing for this evening at the church where we are will be part of a small group talking about the church as a family and the importance to be part of the church family and a small group.
All for now, currently not on line to post this blog but will hopefully get service tomorrow.
Rained pretty hard last night so early to the village was postponed as there was lighting and thunder during the night.I did not hear anything, everyone else woke up. Sleep good, not frogs…yet.
Today Cathy, Sharon and Elizabet went to the market to buy food for lunch and then they were going to meet Pastor Guellermo, Howard and me at the Gurani village. Wires got crossed and it turned out that the girls went shopping with Fernando, Pastor Howard and I went to the village to see what to expect for the rest of the week. After surveying the village, we felt pretty comfortable about installing the purifier, not so sure about the source of water. After discussing with the team, the water that they are drinking will be better if purified…..no mater where it is currently sourced. Pastor gave a short message at the church in the village, we toured the village and their houses, garden, cistern, latrine and the overall grounds.
After the tour of the village we went back to the hotel where we had Asado with our team, Elizabet, Pastor and his family, and Fernando. Great food but we almost did not have as Sharon and Cathy were left in charge of the grill while Fernando went to the store, and while he was gone, they thought it would be the perfect opportunity to go up stairs and do what ever women do. When Fernando came back he said that we were lucky the dogs had not eaten our lunch as there are a few lurking around.
Currently we are preparing for this evening at the church where we are will be part of a small group talking about the church as a family and the importance to be part of the church family and a small group.
All for now, currently not on line to post this blog but will hopefully get service tomorrow.
Arrived.
Arrival in San Pedro, Argentina
Well, we arrived, not to many issues along the way. Trip from LAX to Atlanta was like all others across the country, long and not much to do along the way. We changed planes in Atlanta, glad of that as I was not sure the 757 was the plane to spend the next 9.5 hours. Finally arriving in Buenes Aires, after long flight we all slept pretty good and then another layover and the n the flight to Iguazu. We met with Elizabet in BA at the domestic airport where she joined us for the flight. Elizabet was the translator for Cathy and I in BA on our first trip in 2007 and she and her husband have decided to join us for the week.
After having to pull all the bags off the plane due to someone not being on the flight who had checked in, we took off for Iguazu on a 1.5 hour flight, finally arriving, Pastor Guellermo, Jose and Fernando, two members of his church, met us and took us to San Pedro, 2 hours away. Total trip time over 25 hours but feeling great and looking forward to doing God’s work in Misiones.
David
Well, we arrived, not to many issues along the way. Trip from LAX to Atlanta was like all others across the country, long and not much to do along the way. We changed planes in Atlanta, glad of that as I was not sure the 757 was the plane to spend the next 9.5 hours. Finally arriving in Buenes Aires, after long flight we all slept pretty good and then another layover and the n the flight to Iguazu. We met with Elizabet in BA at the domestic airport where she joined us for the flight. Elizabet was the translator for Cathy and I in BA on our first trip in 2007 and she and her husband have decided to join us for the week.
After having to pull all the bags off the plane due to someone not being on the flight who had checked in, we took off for Iguazu on a 1.5 hour flight, finally arriving, Pastor Guellermo, Jose and Fernando, two members of his church, met us and took us to San Pedro, 2 hours away. Total trip time over 25 hours but feeling great and looking forward to doing God’s work in Misiones.
David
Sunday, August 16, 2009
The picture to the left is of an installation of the purifier at New Life International in Indiana. Cathy and I visited them while back in Indiana to meet with Duvon McGuire, the developer of the system. The system is simple and is hanging on the frame below the top tank. A car battery, salt and about an hour will provide 500 gallons of purified water. We currently have two systems in Argentina that we took in April and planning on returning next week, the 21st to follow up on an installation at the local hospital and also install the system in the village in Argentina. If you want to see where we are going to be, Google San Pedro Argentina and take a look at the satelite image. Small town, lots of green and do not try to locate on a map, not sure it exists.
Thanks to everyone's support and thanks to NLI for their work in bringing clean water to the world.
God's purpose, God's plan...
David
Hand Sinks
While in Indiana a few weeks ago, Cathy and I met with Duvon McGuire, the developer of the water purifiers we are installing in Argentina. At the insistence of Duvon's daughter, he has put together a hand sink that can be installed and used in very remote areas. Simple, take one hand sink from an RV, and I am sure there are plenty of those sitting around these days, add hoses and of course clean water and you have a way to wash hands, brush teeth etc. Duvon has donated one of these sinks, complete with hoses etc. for us to install in the village in Argentina where we are installing the purifier. Thanks to New Life International and their continued support of our trip and in bringing clean water through out the world.David
Friday, August 14, 2009
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