We had tried and tried to get some of our friends over to teach the kids Spanish but to no lasting avail. We have been here for four years and our kids can't hold a simple conversation in the tongue of the land where we profess to be missionaries...shameful, but sadly true.
We got desperate and the Lord led us to enlist him and his friends Richard and Timmy in soccer classes. He is not an active sports boy at all, but, to our surprise he did not dislike the idea. Its been a month now and it seems he is enjoying it greatly. We just had a big inauguration party for their soccer team, where all the teams got together and received prizes for last years achievements, at the sports stadium. It was a good thing for the beginners to see as it made them look forward to next year when, if they did a good job, they would get medals as well. Quite the incentive! The mayor was there for a while and shook hands with all the kids and teens that got rewards and trophies.
Well, there you see him in his new outfit and with his team. GO BOYS, GO!!!

I came across this on a computer clean up that I was doing and found a hiden file folder somewhere...something long lost and forgotten and now recovered, I'll see what the response is and maybe there will be more, I dont know.

Is it Worthy ?
Can it really be true or is it only a fake
This life I’m living and dieing for
Do I understand its cause & intentional make
Or am I here for my conscience, no more?

Does it cost me my life, & daily surrender?
Do I enjoy each passing moment
Or live I only for its rewarding grandeur?
Which would be a shame to Christ’s atonement.

Must I give my all or only a part,
To this life I chose to live?
For did I not vow my " all" in the start?
So my "all" is all I must give!

It takes renewed dedication daily,
To make this life worth living
Did I make this decision plainly
Or did I doubt from the very beginning?

May God forgive a soul as mine
And gentle it once again
In the path that will make me wholly Thine,
Though bruises I may sustain.

Help me, lead me, guide me,
For I cannot go on my own
My strength lies only in thee,
For I want never to walk alone!

I’ve tried the path without a guide
I met with trouble, sorrow and pain
And I will never leave thy side,
To have to walk it alone again.

I must needs lean on thee,
My strength will leave in a matter of time
But the strength in you is like a sea,
And a hundred times outweighs mine.

Oh, my redeemer, my Lord and King
To think that you died for me
To make me a prince in thy coming!
Of such love I am not worthy



My God do not forsake thy child
But do what in thine eyes be right
According to thy tender mercies mild,
May my prayer be pleasing in thy sight.

Yes, this cause of my all is worthy
He is mine and I am His
let nothing else in life besmirch me
I don’t want to die for that which is!

I seek life, life eternal
And for this my all is nothing.
It`s for beyond anything carnal
For which I would give anything!

Yes, it is Worthy!

Here are two pics of Pats Birthday! In our livining room and in Pizza Hut. I could have another pizza right now. I'm starving! Gotta get some food!