Great team......

The 2009 Fall Love Guatemala Team....
Fantastic people....

Francisco and Jorge from our hotel,
enjoying a joy ride!

We had two awesome people join our Love Guatemala
team...Robbie(Idaho) and Lorie (Texas)...we almost
made them Canadians.....

Food and Home.....

Land is very fertile but these families cannot afford
to rent the land....

The families that the guys befriended on the road crew...
we also provided groceries for them...

The finished project....

Marta Lidia, Esperanza (Hope), Angelica (Angel),
Sergio and Santiago (James)

New beds.....

The new table and chairs....

Well, someone had to try it out?????

Marta Lidia's house,
Finishing the bathroom....

Did someone say "cake"????

Linda showing off her waitress skills.....
5 plates of cake....

After VBS we served cake to the kids....
ok, we had some too!

We brought gifts for the staff at Casa Angelina...
Sunglasses and the Divas of CA

Our last day at the women's ministry
this gal brought us donuts...better than Tim Hortons
We also got muffins and hot fruit punch....
They were so grateful for what we had taught them about
God's love, goodness and faithfullness

Blankets, NT's and Food.....

Pastor Rueben helping the ladies with their groceries...

Could you do this? Carrying 40 lbs on their heads...

Philip handing out the groceries....

John is handing out oil.....

The truck is ready to move out with
3000 lbs of groceries.....each of the ladies
received 40 lbs of food (rice, beans, sugar and maize)
and a 1/2 gallon of oil....

Thank you to Brian's dad,
we gave each of the ladies a Spanish NT
from the Gideons

Praising the Lord...
These little girls loved to clap...

Karli found some carrots headed to the local market.....

We got some help from two ladies from the Idaho team...

Dorothy and Sheri cutting out the pattern
for the handbags for the ladies in the village...

Rene and John painting the kitchen ceiling
in the Feeding Center...

Hang on, Linda...

Vicki, Marta and Linda took a TukTuk ride back to the orphanage..

Receiving their blankets...
Thank you to the ladies in the Dorcas Ruth ladies group
at the Yarrow MB church and the ladies at Helping Hands
for making children's blankets...

Making a Christmas tree...

Waiting in line for the women's ministry to start...

Here, There and Everywhere....

The ladies who received the sewing machines.....

Evan and his boys....

"I made a tambourine..."

Marta helping one of the kids at CA....

VBS....

Clementine and Vicki...yes, Vicki does have arms
but this top had not been finished to make the
arm holes larger.....

Meet Clementine....she provides for her family by
weaving typical blouses, tablecloths and wall hangings...

This is how to flatten the cookies, with a metal mallet....

Mixing the dough for the cookies...

A clay oven that holds 36 large pans of baking....
One of the ladies in women's ministry has a bakery,
her husband is the pastor and this is how they provide
for their family...

Playing the harmonica...

Worshipping the Lord in Women's Ministry..

Making a Christmas craft....

We had many little ones come and help out their moms and
listen to words from God's Word

Meet Olga, we built a house for her last November.
Her love for God radiates on her face....

Waiting for Women's Ministry to start..