End of school year/VBS/WATER students

Each trimester of school has a theme or activity that the students and teacher's work together on.  1st trimester is Christmas program, 2nd trimester is sports events, and 3rd trimester is Bible memory Quizzing Day.  July 1st was quizzing day on the verses in John 4: 1-14.  The students learn these verses top to bottom, word for word, bottom to top, and mixed around.  These 3 ladies at the table are the "judges" and "quizmaster".  The students are sitting on electronic pads that let the judges know who jumps first.

This is the older division

                                 At the very end of the quizzing day, the teacher's do a quiz also.                              That is one fine row of teachers right there!!!!

Closing program/awards night!  (July 6th)

The WATER students arrived June 28th.  The first week they helped out with the snack station on the quizzing day, and planned games for the school children the last day of school.  Our children always enjoy the WATER students because they get more books read to them and they get to go do so many things with them.

It was fun having our niece, Rachel Miller, with us for the summer...

Carmel raises chickens for butchering so the WATER students were able to help her one day.

The WATER team: Megan, Ben, Tinslie, Rachel, and Tony

We loaded up a bus of children and hiked out to watch airplanes land.  Many of them had never been there before.

Helping a neighbor lady cut down her tree...

Praying with a neighbor man whose Grandmother passed away that morning.

Making soft pretzles with the older school girls.

Supervising the older school boys while they painted boxes that Pastor Dervin helped them make for shop class.

A yummy pot of 'oil down' for supper one night.

ZIKA!!!!  Yes, we almost all had Zika here in the Limes.  It comes with headaches, rash, red eyes, fever, and achy joints. It lasted about 3 or 4 days.  It brought back really bad memories of Chickengunya and had very similar symptoms, but for us it was a 'walk in the park' compared to Chickengunya.

A church singing and picnic one Sunday afternoon.

We sang at the Poor House.

We enjoy this "Banana Boat" man when we sing at the Poor House.  He got this nickname because anytime he talks to anyone, he's informing them of the next banana boat that is coming.  He also makes a joyful noise to the Lord while we sing, and is always sure to inform us that the male males are downstairs and the female males are upstairs:)

We held VBS in another community (Willis) the beginning of July.  It was a small turnout but good.  There was another activity in the same community that interested a lot of people that week.

The last day of VBS, we went touring.  This is the Grand Etang Lake (a crater lake).  We save old, stale bread to take along to feed the fish here.

The Sunday night after VBS, the Limes and Laborie churches got together for games and snack.

The WATER students rearranged the class rooms for school this year.....

Cleaned the church and school....

and played with the community children a lot.

There are lots of sheep and goats raised here....mainly for meat.

Caleb's 8th Birthday!  He got Coke, Pringles, Skittles, and gum.  (Think he likes snacking?)

And a turtle cake.

Another thing that happens occationally, is the dedication prayer of a newborn baby...Actually, the babies are a couple months old when they bring them.  We require the parents, usually just the mother comes, to bring the child to church 2 Sundays before we 'lift up the child'.

Nicki and Jenarosa

Melanie, Elizabeth, Harmony, Codel, and Christopher.

Megan sewed quite a few school jumpers for us.  Thanks so much Megan, they are all in use now!

Rachel and Tinslie made dozens of cookies for church camp.  We were still eating them after camp.

Nicki discovered she could make bags and didn't quite know when to stop.  She made these to pass out to friends and family while we were in PA this summer.  She's made a lot for friends here in Grenada, too.

This is our staff before Matt and Lynette moved back home this summer.  We miss you and hope you are settled in back home by now.

And our church group minus Euran...who was in the hospital because of an automobile accident with his boss and was waiting on surgery to take glass out of his elbow....he finally had the surgery a week after the accident.