About: Mel

We had a wonderful time with Emmanuel Baptist church. They finished the house they funded to build and had a great excursion to Caye Caulker. There was only a two day break between Emmanuel and the next team from Springbrook Community Church in Huntley IL. This is our largest team to date: Forty people. Everything…

We are very happy to have the Emmanuel Baptist Church youth group here from Hartsville, SC. They are a supporting church and it blesses our hearts to have them here. They are rebuilding a home in the village and doing a great job! The walls are up and tomorrow they will put the roof on…

Praise the Lord we have obtained temporary workers permits! Thank you to everyone who has prayed for us. After a long battle with the government they finally granted us a year long workers permit. It did not end with out some drama though. We got to Belmopan only to find that they had approved us…

We are praising God for his protection from Tropical Storm Alex. The Tropical storm was RIGHT on us. Yet, for the most part, our property did not get strong winds just a lot of rain. It was amazing to see God protect us in that way. During the heavy rains, John had to take Evangeline…

Well the path of the storm changed and it is headed right to us. The good news is that the storm seems to be coming from the back, so there is no storm surge. Right now it is just off the coast and it is raining pretty hard, but that is it. No winds yet…

The first tropical storm is heading our way. Sometime between this afternoon and evening we should get hit. The good thing is that it is headed toward northern Belize, so it won’t be a direct hit on our beach, but it is still fairly close so we will feel the storm. The winds are projected…

Persecution comes in many forms. For villagers who are Christians, it comes in the form of relentlessly being teased by other villagers as to what they perceive the Christians spiritual life is like. Even if they have no idea. Many villagers here see Christians going to church that they feel are not truly Christians. They…

Hi all, it’s another update post. There are some great things happening and some items we need you to pray for. Woman’s Bible study: We are currently doing the Beth Moore series called The Psalms of Ascent. We just did the introductory session and on Thursday we will get into the real meat of the…

For the past 24 hours this has been on my heart and I thought to share it with you: This weekend was the high school graduation party of my beautiful sister Jessica. On my mom’s side I have three sisters whom I am very close to. ALL of the sisters were together this weekend to…

Girl!!!!! Another beautiful girl! We could not be more thrilled. I know and understand the beautiful bond of sisterhood and am very happy that Evangeline and little baby ” ” ( we are not sharing the name again), will be able to experience that bond. The doctors appt. went well. He is concerned that I…