On Sunday, we brought a Pastor & his wife, plus 3 more helpers with us in our truck, and met up with more helpers when we arrived at a Christian family's home in the village of "Mapache" - about 50 min. south of P.V. The Pastor played his guitar, and everyone sang joyfully, as more families came to the Church service. It was quite an interesting setting for the service, as pigs, & chickens joined us!  After the service, the children worked on a "craft", as the rest of us laid out the shoes on their homemade benches.

Here we all are at the airport, receiving our very prayed
over the work SHOES!  Thank you Lord, and thank you Gustavo, Major Lulu, and everyone who had a part of this special moment!  NOW THE WORK BEGINS!

!GOOD NEWS - GOOD NEWS!
We just got word from a Director of an organization that protects children.  My good friend called Gustavo & explained our situation, and he spoke to the head of Customs at the airport, and with all the prayer for our shoes, God answered with a YES!!  We are praising God for His perfect timing of all of this. Yesterday we were invited to a new village about one hour from here that is very poor & needy.  We told God we'd be willing to take all 6 boxes of shoes with us on Sunday to this village if He would open the door for us at the airport and let us have our shoes.  Praise God with us, because we are to pick up the  shoes tomorrow at noon!! We thank all of our supporters who have followed us on this journey, and have been praying for us.   These pictures here are solely for the happy faces we all have for this answer to prayer!

This is the last day for Scott, Kim & family.  We helped out at Casa Infantil, and gave out shoes for the few we were able to fit.  The building you see here is still unfinished, because the funding ran out, and they no longer have any help from the government.  The status of the 6 boxes of shoes that were sent down by USAirlines is that customs ordered them all to be sent back to the USA. I can't get ahold of anyone else this weekend, so on Monday, I hope we can resolve just HOW these shoes will be sent back. I want to thank all of you who have been praying about this, and until they are received back in Charlotte, there is still hope.

Sharing Valentine's Day with our special friends at our campsite.Love to all of you back home!

We went back to the dump area in Gardenia, and brought all of our shoes &  lots of Bibles, while our friends who do this work 4 days a week were feeding the kids a meal!  It was crowded & alot of work, but it was also fun and rewarding! We were so thankful to have our friends from home in S.C. there to help us!

On Wed., we brought what shoes we had left to the Salvation Army.  There were about 30 or more kids who were able to find shoes that fit, and we gave them Bibles!  We had happy faces, and praised God that 6 suitcases of shoes were able to make it through customs with Scott & Kim!!  Pictured above is the Major in this Army who is trying to help us get the 246 lbs. of shoes still being held in customs at the airport onto the feet of so many needy kids.  Please pray with us about this situation.