About: Mel

Last night, John called me. It was a total surprise. So with my hormones going crazy I bawled like a baby. I really miss him a lot! We are always around each other and we get along! LOL! So being without my Best Friend has been hard. Everything is going VERY well in Belize. They…

Please forgive our absence on this blog. The past couple of weeks were so busy. After our trip to MD we went to SC. What a wonderful time we had catching up with friends and family! John spent the days working with his dad at the home School Dynamics office, and all of our evenings…

We had a wonderful trip in MD. We were able to present our ministry to Riverdale Baptist Church and had many people intereted in signing up on our mailing list or supporting us. Praise the Lord! He is so faithful even when we are faithless. My mom also threw me a WONDERFUL baby shower while…

“MOVE WITH A SENSE OF URGENCY!” I can not tell you how many times I heard that being yelled to me when I was at boot camp back in 2001. That sentence has stuck with me since being there. Sometimes I’ll say it to myself to motivate me or to a member of my family…

Over the past couple of days we have been visiting the villagers. We introduce ourselves and tell them that we will be working with Vera and Basil. Some engage in conversation, most don’t, but that’s ok. We just want to them to know who we are. We’ve really come to enjoy this time. I’m doing…

Some of you may know that in the past six months two of Belize Mission and Retreats boat engines were “thieved” (this is the Belizean way to say stolen, so I will use it). There are people in the village who have a good idea who thieved the engines but NO ONE will come forward…

Poor John, he seems to be taking all the blows this trip. “Better me than you”, he says. While that may be true, I still feel bad. Today we hopped in the van to pick up kids in the village for Sunday School. They can walk, but some are so far away that by the…

Every percent that goes up is a cause for celebration. If you’ve been watching our support-o-meter, you might have noticed that it has gone up to 33% while being here in Belize! This means that we are a THIRD of the way to 100%. Praise the Lord! Please join us in thanking the Lord for…

What exactly to we we do every day? One of our chief tasks during this trip is the daily upkeep of the mission base. Since we are not hosting any teams, this is an easier task than if we were, but there are still many things to do. Cooking- Every day at the base is…

Last evening, because of the pleas of a young lady in the village, I went over (with John) to lead “girls night”. Turns out, only two girls showed up, but that is ok, I painted their fingernails and we had a good time chatting. I was a lot of fun. Girls night soon became girls…