Tomorrow we are at the one week mark...........

Greetings from Belize ...................Tuesday! WOW how time flies!!!!
Today we had a class in Unitedville in the morning and went to Buena Vista in the afternoon to visit Mefi Martinez. We toured a new building at the school that will become home for another
Threads of Hope sewing group. It was a building provided by a grant from Japan. . Right now they are waiting for electrical hook ups and things will be ready to go. Mefi Martinez is helping coordinate this effort. We will meet with some of the ladies on Monday and see who we have interested. We are
estimating 20 ladies. New and exciting things happening.

Dottie's comments and pictures from Belize.................

 



The Ladies at LosTombos enjoying the sewing class held on Monday! Linda and Dottie really liked watching the ladies take it all in! We had 13 women and 7 children, all thankful for our help and coming to visit with them!





This is Mrs. T gathering all the children who want a ride home from school! I think she had
17 kids when she left the school! She had a "BUS" load!!

This is Linda passing out blankets and dresses to the IN HIS WILL Pre-school in Unitedville on Tuesday! The children were really excited to receive gifts from friends back in the states! 
This morning we had an embroidery class attended by 9 ladies. They began working on projects and
were off to a beautiful start!!

Hi there!! Greetings from Belize..................this is Dottie. I just wanted to share a few pictures and comments.

 

Another picture of the sewing group at LosTombos, they were

so interested in their projects that they wouldn't smile for the camera!!!

A good time was had by all!!



                   Good Friday Morning!!! Look who we found working at the Farmer's Trading center in Spanish Lookout!!  Our Jessica! We are looking forward to her

coming to the sewing class on Monday.

 

Shopping and errands in Spanish Lookout first thing then on to Chapel at the school.

After Chapel the next stop is Miranda's. We have four ladies at the Miranda house

awaiting our arrival and Dorothy giving a sewing lesson. We had a great time working

 with the ladies and they too are looking forward to sewing class on Monday.

 

 

Joe and Monty spent their time repairing some electrical issues and

plumbing in the Palapa hut.

 

Saturday was spent at church with the Gonzales family then off to market to buy

supplies for the week.

 

Sunday was spent at church with Carmen and Faye and an afternoon of relaxation.

 

Looking forward to tomorrow and beginning the sewing classes. It looks like

we will have about 20 students.

Tomorrow should be a great day! We will get to see all the ladies that have

been attending classes throughout the year and they can show us what they

have learned.

Hope everyone had a great weekend, today the high here was 77 degrees, tomorrow to be a little

warmer. It has been great sleeping weather.

More tomorrow!!!!!!

 

 Here we are!!! Beautiful day! 86 degrees and a wonderful breeze.

 

 One of our neighbors - Ms Juanita

Our neighbors in the front - We haven't met them yet.

 Monty took the pictures of the birds................anybody tell me what kind they are?

 Oranges on the way to market

 LOOK a new clinic in Spanish Lookout!!!

 Brahma cattle on the hillside going into LosTambos 

 Meeting some of the new little ones.

 

 This little one ran up and gave me a big hug. I couldn't believe she is in school already.
This is Alicia's daughter Elizabeth and her

Uncle Samuel

 

Dorothy enjoying all the children. In the background is

Hannah Gonzales. Mrs. Tomasita's daughter.

 Story time at the new library. Dottie and Monty are entertaining the children.

 AND Joe's turn at entertaining.

 Dottie enjoying the story telling as much as the children

 Shoes off in the library for those who wear shoes.

LosTambos government school looking really nice.

Children are taking very good care of the school grounds.

 

 

 





Do we think Monty can eat ALL of these in one sitting???

 

 



 

Joe getting lessons on how to pick out a pineapple.

 

The end of a busy day.

Time to go back to the house and clean and eat some of the fruit we

bought today.

Time to start planning for tomorrow.

Everything is in!

So many, many things to put in the totes but we made it.

EVERYTHING IS IN.

Five sewing machines and a lot of good sewing stuff as you

can see. Also the hand made pack packs, dresses and shorts made

 by the Grandma's PJ group. Lots of love going to Belize tomorrow.

Thank you everyone for your time, talents and supplies.

All God's children

 

We are so blessed! God has put some wonderful people in

our lives.  Some of them live in Belize and some

live in Tennessee!

Thank you all for the supplies and the funding of this

ministry.

 

We are looking forward to these sweet, smiling faces greeting us in Unitedville.

 

AND two of the lovely young ladies in Los Tambos

 

 

 

        We are excited to see the sewing group again. Working with the young ladies in the sewing group holds a very special meaning.  Two of the girls were just beginning school when we started going to Belize and the little guy in the background wasn't even born yet.

There is a lot of history there.

 

 

The Count Down begins

We were commissioned this morning at church.....................tomorrow evening we will be packing our 7 totes and Wednesday at 6:00am we will be heading to the airport. Our flight is at 8:30am, with a stop over in Atlanta we should arrive in Belize at 12:44pm.
Please keep us in your prayers as we prepare for our trip.