Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
Days in Chapare
WOW! It certainly feels weird to be back in Cochabamba after spending 2 1/2 weeks in Chapare working at KM21 orphanage with Remberto. Throughout those 2 1/2 weeks, I´ve learned a lot just through the actions of the Bolivians that live in Chapare and have such a huge heart for God. In one week, at Neuva Jerusalen (the church right by the orphanage) has 4 services, 1 in the morning on Sundays and 1 at night, 1 at night on Tuesdays, and 1 at night on Thursdays and being a Westerner, you barely see churches with 4 services in one week. Even though at times no one would show up we would have great times of fellowship just chatting and talking about random things like culture, language, animals in Chapare, etc. It was definitely a great experience and definitely what I had asked for, and I want to extend me thanks to Mike in giving me this great opportunity and of course everytime heading to Chapare, I thank God that He´s been the one making the decisions and protecting us from sickness.
It has been a great opportunity for me just getting to know Remberto more as we have our one-on-one conversations at the dinner table from time to time and just having no option but to speak Spanish really helped me a lot.
Remberto has certainly been a great testimony to my life just hearing the things that he desires and my prayer to him comes from Psalm 37:4 - Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. I have shared that passage with him and also Micah 6:8 and pray that he will take those 2 passages to heart.
During my stay I also got the chance to see Evo the President give some sort of speech and with my Spanish, I didn´t understand a thing but I did get a couple of pictures of him.
Friday, August 17, 2007
The Timmer Family
Here we are with our first son. Bonnie and I with Tiffany and Braeden, Ashley, Mallory, Sydney, Emily and baby Gracey.
From the "Ground" up?
Sorry we've been so late in getting photos to this site. It's been a long slow start in the middle of the rain forest. Alejandro is the site leader and he's run into so many obsticles; everytime he dug the footings in January they would fill with water. The village had their worst rainy season in 30 years. After trying for a month Alex returned to Cochabamba and his family and waited til April to start again. So you can see in the photo we've decided to put the entire home up on cement stilts. We're building from "above the ground" up.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Hanging with the Boys!!
On Tuesday, we went to visit the orphanage in Villa Israel. This is the orphanage that is currently searching for house parents. It has four little boys (picture included) Joel, Brandon, Samuel, and Erlan (oldest to youngest). Joel is about nine and the others are approximately two years apart. They were taken away from their mother after the community the boys were living in petitioned the government to take the children away. They had been raising each other and running wild. We think they are a
little behind in education, and we tried to address that problem. Yes, that picture of Brandon laughing in my lap while Sydney tries to read him a book about the alphabet... He´s not laughing. It´s more of a squirming attempt to escape and not learn the alphabet. Anyway, we get to visit them and help the temporary house parent with providing the presence of some discipline. But don´t get me wrong, we still play, and they are such a joy to spend time with!!
Thursday, August 2, 2007
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