Finding Our Family Again: Missionaries

We have been so blessed to meet so many mission-minded families. Most all the families attending school are here preparing to be sent to the mission field. One family just left for Peru to work at a Samaritan's Purse hospital, and another family just left to start a hospital to ministry to malnourished children in Guatemala. If I have blogged about them before, forgive me. Their sacrifice is definitely worth mentioning again. How awesome to take your families to serve in such a way!!

This last weekend, we spent some time with another mission family. We'd met them at the pool in La Suiza (which means Switzerland -- the next pueblito up from La Suiza is Canada -- interesting, right?) a month or so ago and spent a Saturday doing an orphan outreach with them a few weeks later. We had them to our new house for a cafecito and some playtime before trying out the one and only restaurant in Tuis, Rancho Monteverde.

L and the girls SO enjoyed the time with the missionary kiddos. There are FIVE boys in the family, and they are every bit as rambunctious and full of life as our children. It was so fun to see them laughing and playing and being rowdy (and spending time with parents of similar children).

J and I also relished the time visiting with these people who left life in Louisiana behind to serve God. Their vision to minister to the people, particularly the indigenous, of CR is absolutely amazing. They are doing so much to really impact people's lives -- working with orphans, bringing in medical teams, teaching women to sew, providing blankets and necessities to trafficking safe-houses and hospitals, etc. The dreams God has given them are so BIG and WONDERFUL, too, and we can't wait to see how our faithful God brings these dreams to fruition.

We were blessed to have this time with this family. Hopefully we'll have another chance to visit with, and maybe minister with, them once again before we leave.