Ecuador VIM Update, Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Our group has been busy at the Casa De Fe orphanage and also at the construction site of the new two story building that is being constructed. Don Hamilton, our doctor, has with Kelly Bryan's help, been assessing children, taking vital signs and working on getting medical records and histories. In a place where birth dates are not even known for some of the kids, this is a huge undertaking and is desperately needed. Teryl Speryle and Julie Wilson, our therapists, have been very busy assessing the many needs of the special needs kids, working with the Casa De Fe staff to help train them to perform some therapies, providing assistance devices for some of the kids, and loving on them. Michelle Carney, Lily Heine, Debra Knight and others in our group have been playing with the kids, taking them to a nearby park, where they almost never get to go because of a shortage of supervision, and doing crafts and games.

Our construction crew has been working with another group from Mississippi at the construction site. We have plastered walls, wired the first floor for electrical power and helped pour concrete to construct a five foot high, ten foot long cistern for collecting rain water. Anne Heine is a master plasterer, and Debbie Hamilton should be on Tool Time for her use of power tools. It is fun, exciting and tiring. With the work we are doing, they may be able to occupy the first floor within a month or so. We hope to lay tile on some of the floors later in the week.

We have had an exciting and challenging trip so far, and God has shown his presence in so many ways that it would take many more pages to describe them.

Tim