Believers Fellowship Bolivia Mission

We are home!  Another delay in Miami coming home (something wrong with the plane so the flight was cancelled).  We spent another night in Miami before continuing our flight home.  These delays had the advantage of strengthening our team and letting us get to know each other better. 

Here are pictures of the project and the hard working crew. 

 Peter and Mitchell were trained in the skill of placing the rocks so it became a cobblestone floor.

 Concrete was poured over the rocks; we wished it could have been something transparent so you could see the artistry in the rock work!

                                              Here is a picture of the entire work crew.

A few of the pictures from the home visits with the children.  They so appreciate the letters and photos that sponsors send and ask many questions about their sponsors.  You make an enormous impact in their lives! 

Our team also provided a Vacation Bible school lesson for the children at the church.  They had a great time learning that God's love for them is greater than that the shepherd who went looking for the lost sheep even though he had 99 sheep left; they then got to make their own sheep!

Our very own Glenda Peterson spoke during adult service about the outreach Believers Fellowship does in our community.

 And our team sang a couple of songs we normally sing during our Sunday service.

The Food for the Hungry staff is working with some children who have shown they have the ability to be leaders in their community and to whom the other children can look up.  They are called the Timoteos (Timothys).  They presented us with their plans of what they hope their neighborhoods will look like in 10 years.

The Food for the Hungry staff work long days and are dedicated to the children and families in their care.  In addition to offering programs both before and after school on three days a week, and mentoring the Timoteos, they make monthly visits to each child in his/her home and facilitate the family getting medical or other needed services.  There are over 1500 children in the program!

                                                     Paula, Neysa and Fabiola

                                                                   Escarlen

                                                                       Freddy

                                                                            Jeaneth
(the drink in the foreground is a tradition fruit drink (non alcoholic!) made from the tumbo fruit)

We all thoroughly appreciated the opportunity to represent Believers Fellowship in this community and to walk alongside these selfless servants, being the hands and feet of Jesus.  On behalf of Mary Anne, Rachel, Stephanie, D'Art, Carrie, Glenda, Yvonne, Peter, Mitchell, Jim, and myself, thank you!

In His Love, Barb