Steve started us out on the right foot today by leading the chapel time with a fish story. The story of Jonah to be precise. It was a good message about being obedient to and trusting in God's will in our lives. All of the kids come from broken families and have lots of baggage to deal with. Besides the physical labor that we are doing this week we are also spending time with the kids in various situations. The older kids are a little stand-offish, but the younger ones clearly like having us around. Steve, in particular, is a great ambassador to them.

In the morning, we worked alongside the kids in the coffee tents. We removed bad beans and miscellaneous pulp left over after the de-pulping of the coffee 'cherries'. This all helps the beans to dry out and gets them ready for storage until they are ready to be roasted. It gets pretty hot in the tents, so the staff wanted us to do it in the morning, while they were prepping some new gate posts.

After lunch we worked on the fence and gate posts some more and started putting chain link fencing on one side of the enclosure. Pablo, the head Ranch maintenance worker, enjoyed visiting with us while we worked and shared that his daughter had attended the Ranch school for four years and is fluent in English although Pablo is not. 

Many of the young kids now at the Ranch are not fluent in English because there aren't very many North Americans working at the Ranch. WGO is constantly looking for additional North American teachers and missionaries to fill various roles at the Ranch. It is a real benefit to the kids to have native English speakers around. Maybe you know someone who might be interested. Please have them contact WGO at www.wgoreach.org.

It turns out that there is a beehive in the eaves of our end of Casa Grande. This has happened before, so we are moving to the other end of the building and the staff is going to try to remove and relocate the hive this evening.

We don't have any other obligations this evening, so we might just play some games on our own. We may finally have a clear night for stargazing too.

MORNING CHAPEL MESSAGE BY STEVE POTTER

COFFEE SORTING

THIS IS HOW WE MEASURE THINGS IN HONDURAS

First dig a hole. Then place a Honduran child in the hole and mark their shirt. Then let them climb out and lay down next to the pole that is going to be placed in the hole so that you can tell if the hole is deep enough.

IT WORKS!

ENJOYING THE SCENERY ON OUR WALKS AROUND THE CAMPUS