so much to do!

Monday morning we had a staff meeting about everything that´s happening on the base this summer. There are so many short term teams coming and so many things we have to plan. There are many needs here. The founders of the base are getting older and they are the only ones who really get out there and raise support. When they are gone this place might not make it. The base serves as a bible and music school to train pastors from Mexico to start churches in the unreached areas of the mountains. This is working! And their churches are spreading to more unreached tribes. With all the different dialects in the mountains this is the only way to reach them. It is so amazing because their unique cultures stay the same but God is changing their hearts and this whole area is becoming a more loving, peaceful place.We must find a way to raise the support they need.
Remember Franco? He and some people from the base minister at the prison in Pochutla on Tuesdays. We didn´t get to go yesterday because there was another staff meeting but we plan on going next week. The women are there for all sorts of things and some of them have children that live in the prison with them. We are going to take toiletry items and some Bibles to them. If anyone has access to Spanish Bibles or ministry tools they would be very useful to us because they´re hard to find around here. You can talk to Dave (dave@thegrovechurch.org) about getting those shipped to us.
Matt left Monday for the mountains with 4 other construction workers who don´t speak English. I´m only a little worried. The other day we were eating dinner with some Chitino guys (nearby indigenous tribe) who were here for Rebeca and Arnulfo´s wedding. So of course Matt tries to talk to this guy who we´re not even sure speaks Spanish. Turns out he does and also speaks a little English. His nickname is ¨shrimpy¨ so Matt was trying to say ¨nickname¨ and he ended up saying ¨fart¨instead and everyone laughed except us because we didn´t know what was going on.
Mexican weddings are very fun. They had a band that followed the bride and groom down the street and there was lots of food, laughter, and twinkle lights.
I have been helping in the clinic this week. I had to move there for 2 weeks until a room opens up. The only place left for me in the clinic was the top bunk bed in the hottest room and there is no mattress. So I´ve been sleeping on the floor of the office because it has an airconditioner. This weekend the next short term team will be here and there will be lots of work to do.
Here is my prayer list-
Pray for God´s will for the base, and for a plan to raise support.
Pray for Matt´s safe return from the mountains.
Pray for God to give me a humble heart to serve wherever I am needed.
Pray for my Spanish, I usually pick it up again very quickly but I am struggling this time.
Thanks for everything.