Friday March 28, 2008 Mexico, La Mina

We have been blessed this week with a group of young men who worked relentlessly, selflessly and with all their hearts.  This group from Washington (9 wonderful young men, ages 17-21 and two leaders 24 & 32) left this morning to return to Vancouver Washington.  They worked from 8 till nearly 5 everyday, with short coffee breaks and a lunch.  They did everything from mixing cement, shovelling gravel, carrying and pouring cement, pick axing cement, & helping with the addition of hundreds of more cement blocks to further the walls of the church. God brought this unified team of young men to join Bruce and Wayne and Martha and I (Val) in the church building. 

It has been really interesting sharing a house with 15 others! Bruce and Wayne are continuing to lay more rows with Rapha, but they will only have help from Martha and I!!!!!!  Martha and I did have a couple of afternoons with holding babies and playing with the nino's in the playground as well as conversing with the Mexican women in the Park Ministries. 

Rapha has been blessed with much improvement in his back. Ike and Luan are amazed at the progress of their church.

We will work Fri and Sat and then spend Sunday in worship.

Please continue to pray for Rapha's back, for Ike and Luan and their ministry to the Mexican people here............................Val