We Serve

On Sunday we had two teams from EFCC, our sending church in California, arrive here in Portugal to do service project with us. The Sun Deo team is made up of 10 lovely ladies and a wonderful young man. Then there is the Post-college team, 7 women and 3 men who all slept in my living room Sunday night. Can you say slumber party?

This picture is of the Sun Deo team after a long day of cleaning, trash removal, weed pulling, and brush clearing. These gals put their hearts and souls into working all morning to prepair the surrounding area to get painted on Wed., then they headed off to do pampering projects ( hair cutting, nail painting, eye brow plucking, you get the picture ) for some Portuguese women. A very productive first day I would say.

Yesterday we headed into Lisbon to prayer walk. We spent the morning walking through Parque das Nacoes, ( Park of the Nations ) praying for an area where some friends of ours are doing out reach. It was a good time of prayer and bonding. From there we headed over to old Lisbon, had a traditional Portuguese lunch, talked about the spiritual dynamic of the area we were in and finished our day with a prayer walk through the city.

And now today we have just finished painting the afore mentioned wall. Plus they did two more pampering project. I'm only mentioning the Sun Deo team because they have been the team I have been working with. Paula, on the other hand, has been out at a camp for Aldiea SOS orphans at the beach with the Post-college team. They have been watching the Jesus video, doing crafts and having an over all wonderful time it sounds like. At least that is the evening report I have been getting from P each night as we have a quick meal and then fall into bed.

Oh and did you notice that the exchange rate has dropped some? I did. I was down to 1.48 today. What a blessing for us. You Be Blessed too.