Family From California!

The Philips family offered to come and stay a month with us in July and help with ministry. Linda was an artist and was more than happy to sit and paint or draw with the Indigenous kids. She even gave a couple of the older girls a few materials to keep painting or drawing in their homes. Steve was a paramedic. He was a great help to Dale while they worked together to get the roof finished on the building and other things around the base that needed to be done. They had two kids, Jacob [17] and David [14], who were very helpful to us as well. David knew some Spanish, so he got along with the Indigenous very well. They both liked to fish and even made us a lobster trap that we put at the bottom of a mangrove. We worked with the Indigenous a lot during this month, holding church services and planning things to do with them. They had a great gift of hospitality and we were happy to have some of their new friends to come and spend time with us. We also got to share our faith and our purpose with a girl who was touring the Bocas del Toro area and spent the night at our house.