guatemala

our biggest venture coming is guatemala. brad and i our leaving in just a week (sept3) and spending the next 3 months working in alta verapaz, guatemala with a mission called the Hope of the Pokomchi. it is a small mission that works with the Mayan Pokomchi people. here is a page that outlines what the mission is about better than i can (it's written by the missionaries, Bill and Linda).
as for us - we will be doing a smattering of things but for the record...jenn will help lead a women's Bible study, help with children's programs, do some admin organizational tasks and brad will help with some infrastructure construction projects, possibly teach some english classes and give driving standard lessons to some of the guatemalan staff.
we were just e-mailed the link to a website, guatemala 2006, which was set up by a church team that just went down for a week earlier this month. Their focus was a work project in one of the villages. Though this is a record of their experience down there -it has given us a glimpse into where we will be and the people we'll be working alongside.
we aer looking forward to the traveling, working with the people, learning a whole lot, and seeing how the Lord uses us and teaches us.
Following our work with the mission, we will be traveling on our our own for the last 3 weeks and then fly to Vancouver on Christmas day. we hope to keep our blog updated with info of our experiences if we can.

thirty

well i am technically not thirty yet (hee, hee), but we decided some years ago that the three of us would get together for our 3oth birthday year and lo and behold we did just that. kt and beth came to victoria for a week. A week of catching-up, laughing, adventuring, and having fun! we did lots of stuff and did lots of talking :o)
it was what the trinity needed after years of our wanderings to reconnect together and have a really great time. so girls...again, right...and sooner than later.

dancin' seastars



the trinity reconnected

july..is gone,already

it's been awhile since july long already -yowzers! isn't it the way it is that sumers fly by way too quickly? our exciting july adventure include having jef, shawn and aly visit! :o) yay! we had good times showing them our island..the sooke potholes, the inner harbour, camping on salt spring, hiking, kayaking, and mostly hangin out - spending time together. thanks all for trekkin' out this way!

shawn,aly & jenn looking so hep after hiking all day at goldstream & east sooke.



jef & brad out kayaking around discovery island for the day.