Wednesday, November 29, 2006

We're back from Mexico!

These are not in order...I tried to post more than five but they wouldn't show up?! Anyway all 158 pictures are at the following if you would like to look at them: http://www2.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=140695013/a=22985913_22985913/t_=22985913
We went to a remote village, Jalpa (Halpa), where we poured a roof on the church, prayer walked and did house to house evangelism. The area is breath takingly beautiful! We only took a small group, 11 including us. It was a great trip, our focus was "For the fame of his name" The kids enjoyed it a lot and didn't get sick, Praise the Lord! This picture was taken on the way back to Tamazunchale, a 2 hour drive on windy, unpaved, very bumpy roads!
This is back in Tamaz with Pastor Candido and his family. On the wall behind them is a picture of the team we took in April, (Uncle Lee you are the last person on the right in the bottom photo. Dad, for some reason you aren't in the picture)
I just love this picture. This house is tucked away along a small pathway. This woman only speaks the native language of Nahuatl (nah-watt) not spanish. When we came up she promplty found chairs for us to sit on and went back to sorting her beans. We had a church member with us who translated from spanish to her language. She was precious!
This is the team right before we left Jalpa (minus to guys who overslept!) We were standing on the freshly poured roof as the sun began to rise over the mountains , so beautiful!
The road winds back in front of Jalpa, across a valley so you can see the entire village. The population is about 700 people. This is zoomed in so you can't see the whole area. The church is
about in the middle of the picture, it is the large building that looks like it is on pilings. Once it is painted it will surely be a beacon on a hill. The whole village is built on the mountain side and is quite steep.
I'll post a picture of what the church looked like last year when we were there...

2 comments:

Pauline said...

I laughed about the lady picking thru her beans... they do that every single day of their lives... pick the rocks out of the beans. Brasilians are the same.

The DeLormes said...

I also love the picture of the lady picking beans... what memories...

So glad that you all had a great trip!