Will Visits

Sure was fun having our youngest son, Will, with us this week... he's the first of our five to visit since we made Matagalpa our newest base of operations almost exactly two years ago!

We have a team of six from Chets Creek Church in Jacksonville, Florida coming to help at the school in two weeks...

The photo was taken in the bell tower of the beautiful main cathedral in Granada.

Grace Reads to First Graders

...in SPANISH!!!!
I'm so proud of this girl... DuoLingo still says she's 50% fluent; she contends they're being generous, but the fact is she's doing GREAT!

She has also been God's provision for the need we had in the library.  I have no idea what we would be doing if it weren't for the fact that she has dug right into the job of running things there... labelling, printing bar codes, entering new additions to the database, managing circulation, re-shelving returned books, reading to the kids, etc.

Visitor from ACA

Grace and I are constantly inviting former students to "come see us!" here in Nicaragua...
Last week, we had the privilege of hosting Gib Jeffries of the Asheville Christian Academy
Class of 2011!
He took a week off from his job as a Mechanical Engineer in Cookeville, TN to come see his old principal... how cool is that!
We worked hard all week at the school and still found time to do a little exploring... this photo was taken on the rim of the Masaya volcano... from where we were standing one can turn and look into the mouth of the volcano and see this: