Home Again

Well all our dear family, friends, supporters, and random people who like to check out our swanky blog :)

We are home. Safe and sound.

To update you from the last point, our last days in Bolivia were incredible. Sunday we were at Calama for church first where we lead the worship, then went to the church of the school we'd been working at. The Janks had us over for the evening for a time to talk about our trip and say bye. They had five men come and play some amazing Bolivian folk music and got to hear about their ministry. It was an amazing evening of fellowship and sharing.

We were at the school Monday and Tuesday morning. Monday afternoon we finally finished painting the lounge at the Seminary and it acutally looks so good!!! Tuesday afternoon we went back to the market and spent the night packing everything.

So sad to say good bye! We had a precious gift of a bunch of the students from the school who came to say bye to us at the airport, as well as our three friends Saul, Paula, and Jackie from the seminary. There were smiles and tears and lots of hugs all around! We left around noonish and 40 minutes later we were in Santa Cruz where we had to kill a bunch of hours. A man from the Baptist church there picked us up and gave us a tour of Santa Cruz and took us to the zoo where we saw all manner of super cool animals and birds and stuff....and i may or may not have gotten bird terd down my back....giggle...he took us back to the airport and our flight to Miami was from about 11-6ish....another layover...and we pulled into Toronto around 2ish. So it was long....nice to be back on solid ground that's for sure!

I know for myself I'm still processing everything and it's so hard to pinpoint the best parts and figure out everything learned, but the one thing that I've shared is that as Christians called to minister to those around us, it is something we can do no matter where we are. The only difference is location. But no matter where you are or what you're doing, you can spend time FOR God till you're blue in the face, but unless you spend time WITH God you are not getting anywhere.

It was an absolutely amazing trip. Incredibleto see so much and experience so much. Thank you all so much for all your prayers and support. It meant so much to us all knowing you were there with us in spirit and that your prayers were being lifted up around us.

Love you all.

May God bless you and keep you all.

Kristen