December 3, 2023 - Gary & Kathy From Costa Rica

And so that was a lot of fun and so we're not really used to being back yet. We're not used to the cold and I know you say is like it's not cold and there's no snow but it is called us when we're 30-plus and all the humidity and there is so much static. I'm just full of static all over again. And so we don't have any static in Costa Rica that are even know what that is. So we're getting used to this is our first Sunday to speak and so are getting kind of back at it and you still somewhat but when our kids say to us, do you want to go to the parade? Do you want to go outside you when I go to the zoo now? No, I really don't and my my winter where is packed away, which I haven't been able to get to yet. So maybe once I get my boots are clothing, then we can go do something.

How many grandchildren off at 6 so we have six grandchildren? We haven't seen in quite a while. So is really nice come back to Canada to spend time with her family, especially over the Christmas holiday, That means a lot to us as missionaries, you know, cuz it's such a great distance. And so if we do things over, you know who Zoom or messenger video Everyday we talk to them but if there's something different to be right in person with him and we also get their sicknesses. So that's something you don't get over messenger either. That's a whole great experience to that we love and so anyway, so it's good to be back. So yeah, so I don't know us or where we work. We work in Costa Rica been in a place called Paul Anka and you can see the red circle on your screen there. That's the area where we were when we live literally about a half an hour or left from the Panama border. There is a river that is called 60 lower River and eight divided the country. In Costa Rica and the river is just right there. There's one spot we can go into the reservation get in a Dugout canoe and just like I can throw a rock and hit Costa Rica just throw it over the river and sorry and that's that's how close we are. So that's the area in which we work right there a predominantly work with the indigenous people built the compactor and the Bri Bri tribes are other tribes and I believe that there are eight in total but those are the two that we work with how we also work with the Nationals the Costa Ricans. They kind of look at it is two countries really you have your indigenous country and then you have your Costa Rican country. And so they kind of treated that way so we work in both but primarily with the indigenous or in the province of Liam own. And so in order to get to the city at takes us about 5 hours and to get to the airport probably about 5 hours. To get to the West Coast because we're on the east side. It takes us another couple hours past the city. And so anytime we we just learned we don't need to go to Costco. We don't need to go to Walmart weed shop locally. We do most of our everything we need my help hasn't been terrific this year. So I have had to go into the city for the hospital and they don't like to send you home back to tell him. I'm just so that just gives you an idea like where we live and are we used to live in a radius of San Jose Airport? They grow coffee and beautiful up there different climate warm in the daytime cool at night and now we live where it's hot day and night forever. It's hot. It's hot hot and we have fans and and it's hot. So we work within a four different cultures. So like I said the indigenous call The Costa Rican culture and also I think Costa Rica there is the black community the colored Community. Are predominately from Jamaica and so they speak Patois. And so that is a whole nother Caribbean type culture that we live in as well and the fourth want to be the tourist of culture it a lot of Germans a lot of European and do all of that is in that same area and it's really kind of need the food is extremely delicious is gray the rice and beans in Polo care of angel that the that the the black community make from Jamaica. It is off the chart. Wonderful. We have a few of our friends that are always at Gary you are looking a little skinny. You need to come to my house and you don't leave their skinny. It isn't the most amazing food that I've ever had a lot of rice rice for every meal beans if they don't have rice and beans of some sort they haven't eaten. That doesn't go well for us we have to cut back on rice and beans when we go to the doctor and they say I'm a little high or whatever he wishes. We just say it's not our fault. It's our friends that we can split a plate rather than or just not have as much because they want to bless us because that's just how they are. Right. So anyway, keep going there if it's in TVs in Ephesians chapter 2 verses 1 to 10 answers for we are God's handiwork created in Christ. Jesus to do good works with God prepared in advance for us to do so, we're always assured that when we wake up in the morning that God has already gone before us and our work they're already made for us to do the hard part is that's walking in that and we do We're always reassured that that is the direction that we're headed. We're reassured of our calling in the morning that God has prepared a way prepared to work for us to do in the jungles of Costa Rica. Just give us a straight face. Sometimes we don't know how to do it. We don't know what we're doing. But we say You Lord, you know in spite of our fear is fight of our ignorance and spite of our understanding all of the time we're going to go anyways because we believe that you've already prepared that space brought wear to work every day. Wow. That's that speaks volumes to each and everyone of us. Not only do Kathy and I have value in what we do, but the people we serve great value because God called us to them because he's heard them not only that but when we going to the Jungle, we can't work there alone. These people have such great value to us because of their their jungle know how how to move around how to work. What's a touch what not to touch what to eat what not to eat there are protection. If you really want to know the truth. We never go into the jungle to work without somebody with us because they are our guys are protectors to do God's work and God prepared those people for us. And so it is a really neat scripture that we used each and every day when we Face things with me and I'm getting a driver's license getting any kind of government issued, you know, our residency different things, you know it you think you know what you're doing and you think you understand and then you really don't and that day something changes and you know, so we have to go into this scripture and say Lord. We don't know what's happening today, but you do and we're going to sit back and watch you.

Watching you find a way for us. We just came through flying actually and it was a whole long day really long day, and I don't know about you but here's a little bit. Maybe I shouldn't say this on the internet, but I don't know if any of you work in airport security or an immigration give you a heads-up don't go to the women just don't go to the women women are so thorough but ask way too many questions. And so I always pray in the line Lord, please give us somebody that's trying to give us somebody that's I'm not going to ask as many questions as we saw it all day long at the airport. We did we saw it from lining up from hey, are you just you know, your your carry-on bag come with me come over to this side Day come with me and immigration over here and the guy wasn't even an immigration officer. He was a policeman and he said fold your breath while you don't talk just I'm signing your paper. Okay off we went so that the Lord like we actually when we pray that first and we believe it we and we say it with our mouths Lord. We don't know how to do this today. So we're going to watch you do it and he does really encouraging scripture that we used our Nick. I'm not telling you.

Yeah, I don't think airport security goes with that. So I talked a little bit about our Bible Institute has grown so much over the years from when we started that we started out with 50 students. And now this year was our first year that we were at 99 students plaster take a little bit it fluctuates all the time, but are plus or minus what I want to say Mas o menos are given that time but that we're just praising the Lord we have one of the largest student bodies in Costa Rica. We work with the Assemblies of God of Costa Rica and so are we work through their schooling process and are their routine and in process that they do but we do have the largest it in Costa Rica as of right now, and so we just praise God for that. It's not that Kathy and I know how to be Bible School Direct Which we don't but we come alongside Bible School directors to help them accomplish the dream in the dark desires that God has placed in their hand. So we are neighbors. And so that's really been a real blessing. This is a classroom and a place called Cheney chi cha how many of you can say Tina catch on? Now you got to feel like Bruce Lee. Think about a minute try it. No, no, no words. Every time we stayed in Costa Rica all the Costa Rica actually means if you want to know I'll deflate that whole thing real quick. Actually means the root of a lemon tree. So, there you go. Is the class that I just went to a couple Fridays ago and it was their last class of mission and so they were watching actually had a video about an indigenous tribe and I found it quite interesting there their responses to this video of just the way that the indigenous tribe interacted with the Christian and because they're obviously Christians in the classroom. But anyway, it was fun to go and see their last class of the year. And then on the right there on your left maybe is by de las Rosas and Pastor Lydia Lydia has two classes and there's right now 23 students don't finish about the middle of December which is when all the kids get out of school. They don't have school from mid-December to when school starts again in February cuz it's summer. And so that's their summer break. And so the Bible School follows that same school line. So that parents can have time off and they needed they need time to not be studying and not be turning in papers and all that kind of stuff. So we have the two classes there and then there are at least five classrooms and Zone 81 and within the ptolemaic the area we have to send our professors to the big city to the capital city to go through their processing their schooling or training to be a professor has to be directors to be teachers. And so this is a picture of the group. This is the largest group that we've ever sent to proseva. And so the future is looking bright. So if we have 99 student give or take we need professors to open up more classrooms. And so we need to know usher in and begin to train teachers and professors to take the load or get to the other part a little bit later because they once you start a big class in school starting it creates other problems that we have to solve it was you all along but they're good problems to have

other than encourage the the professors and the directors is we offer a scholarship for half of their of their class price. So it's about an actual 30% of the total cost because they still have to sign up for their class is stuff to pay for their book. They still have to pay for their transportation to and from and where we live transportation is like gold. It is expensive. It's hard to find and sometimes even our professor Maritsa is in the gray shirt with the with that what he saw that name tag lanyard, you know, she goes on Friday to the boss and she rides the bus she gets up early in the morning by leave by 9:30 her classes later in the afternoon. She gets as far as she can get on the bus and sometimes there's pirate taxi, which is you know, anybody who wants to be a taxi that day. You can pay them to take you or sometimes. There's a van that is scheduled to make a trip. Sometimes she gets to her class and then can't get back. And so this is not always a great problem or a great it is a problem. It is a great problem. And so this happens with students as well. And so they have more expenses than just our scholarship. Some of the students have to cross big rivers in Dugout canoes and then walk we had one student years ago that started the class. He not since then has bought a motorcycle and as is now live closer, but he would walk a four and a half hours one way out of the jungle for the class and they're walked four and a half hours back every single Saturday for his class and the dirt roads like the buses will pick up Marissa by one of our professors, but she Dirt road it's a dirt road. It's not a paved road. So it takes a little bit longer. We've had stories of back in the day when the roads were altered their pave now quite a bit, but when was all deer rug depositors with enter into the bus at 6, so let's ride the bus for an hour and a half to place called Lima on down a dirty dusty road. They would they so they say they entered the bus as a young man with dark black hair their clothes are all, you know, very ironed and nice and everything exited Limon old men because the dust that would come in through the windows would make all their hair gray and their clothes gray and they have to get out and dust all off and fix their hair and everything. So we've come a long ways. But if there is still a lot of terrain and Wilderness that is still dirt road and some of it's not even dirt road. It's for motorcycles or just strictly walking in both of these photos.

When we know prosafe is coming and we know even next year when their when when it's scheduled on the calendar so ahead of time you say who wants to go and we almost always always say will help you. But how much can you do if it's going to be 16000 colonies for them to go so you double that and add a little bit for Canadian. So 16 and 16 is what 32 closer to 40 bucks. I don't know to go. So we say if you can do $8,000 and will pitch in the 8,000 but we know that it's more than that because that's just the cost of a couple of days Transportation all that good stuff. Right? So if we're ahead of time, sometimes they can save their money. Sometimes they can do some food sales and raise some funds but even on the other side when they are the two guys that are sitting at the table. These two likely one is Pastor Pedro and the gray shirt. They will likely be professors or the Bible Institute and we have no problem investing in them investing in their trip investing in their life with the Bible Institute. And also with all the classes that come along why not? Why not already have somebody prepared ahead of time to take the place of those that are going out?

Send a small invention in San Jose and our presbyter used to be a check on the children's ministry of all things. He said I'll do it. So he went a few times to San Jose and then our press would have died during covid-19. Then he had diabetes and heart problems. So he died was made the new press better. And so we had Pablo down in front in the dark blue shirt. He became the new children's Minister and so rigoberto said, you know what I want talamanca generally doesn't participate in much. I mean that the transportation and all that it takes a lot to get there and he said this year. I want to see a good representation. So we had 20 people go That was like never before from talamanca never before we help some with transportation. And so they offered a big prize at the end and guess what they lost but only buy one somebody else who doesn't live that far away. Somebody else brought 21 people and tell him I was there with 20 and so we we said we rejoiced and that we said Hallelujah first time ever. Even if you're not a teacher we're going to go five more just to win the price. So so they're very competitive as far as our indigenous group and they really want to see they're just investing in the future constantly training leaders equipping leaders students professors teachers to always investing not only in just Ministry circles and Christian circles, but in local schools to which we'll get to in a little bit investing in them these here There are some kids that I picked up out of the Jungle. There are three kids was a 3/4 with 2 L. And I picked him up in my stead. You know, we can't help you get there because it was kind of a spur-of-the-moment thing. But I will drive you there. If you can meet me in wasn't sareyka at the river so they had to come on a 20 minute bus ride from the jungle get into a canoe early in the morning ride down the river 30 minutes down the river in a Dugout canoe land on the beach side of the Rekha Community where I picked him up and then drove 40 to 45 minutes out of the Jungle before we hit the pavement and then began our trip down to where they were going to catch the next bus with the whole bunch of other youth group and went and so they're investing here in children's ministers a children's leaders for a program called King's Castle and they're going to try to begin to Call Matt this program to bring in more kids kids is not a problem. They have lots of kisses just organizing the program for them to have it. Some churches will have this church that they're coming from is 2Pac way has over 80 children other churches that are small you think what in the world is this you're going to be one of the places that we build School's classrooms. They have fifty children. They have lots of children and they just want to invest continuously invest into the future of their children and their people even though we couldn't take them all the way there was room in our vehicle, but we couldn't take them all the way because we had other things planned, but there's always something that we can do. There's always you know, if the if our tell him I could District says 10 for transportation how much pain should we pitch in and even just this what the pastor found us and said, hey, you know you're going to be Can these kids up? What time is it going to be if it involved most of the day on Friday and it involved most of the day on Sunday? And that's okay. We don't mind doing that. We don't mind, you know helping however, it is that we can have these kids and the adults or Anna and an excellent program for two nights at a camp at the Assemblies of God camp just outside of where the airports at. So it was it's always a good investment. So I think called special projects. We have to special projects that we've church planting this goes into those other good problems that I was talking about. If we have a huge student body of future pastors, they need to go somewhere. So we need to begin to build churches new church has really got her jump start. The older churches there church here is in Corona and Corona we have to cross Three Rivers to get there. Motorcycle we actually put the motorcycle inside a Dugout canoe drive to the next Beach. I drive through the jungle to the next River and so on and so forth till I get there.

Getting out of the books dicey, but I've gotten used to so I don't know. Maybe I'll have a ball and then I will be a little scared again. But anyway, so this is how I get there. So it takes it takes about an hour and a half to get to this church Corona. Corona has been without a pastor for five years about five years in the wrestler came to us and said hey, I need your help because we want to restart this church got good land start the building in the back there. The red is the church building its up off the ground on steels. That's how they used to make them were changing that up a little bit, but they all used to be built up on stilts to get him off the ground until we began to invest into this church here. And so what were your seeing their the building there is we're building a new kitchen. The kitchen before was just dirt floors. It was actually really it's right there. You can see it behind looks like a shock that's actually did but the old kitchen and it's terrible inside until he goes he's as Gary we've got half the money would you put in the other half we're going to build A new kitchen and so it styled now. It is a really nice clean kitchen. That's what's all of our projects rather be Bible School church planting planting. We fight a little bit on a special project is always 50/50 because we believe that the people themselves need to have skin in the game. If we build everything for them. Then it becomes a Canadian church or Canadian project. If it's a joint project, it's their projects and it when they have invested money blood and sweat into it. They take better care of it too. It's like, you know my kids I bought them their first car will actually went three ways on it. We didn't buy the car form. We called this old Toyota Corolla blanch. It was a terrible car. It blew smoke all this stuff and how much you're going to appreciate that new car when you buy it someday when they worked really hard and they poured their of work. Do you know Blood Sweat and whatever into that and they bought their new car they appreciated it if anybody come. Brunch cuz it was clean, right? You know, if you're going to get in take your shoes off that type of thing. So they really appreciate it. Same principle goes when were working as missionaries on the projects that we build. So we have a video right now that we're going to show you do Kathy's got one more thing that in Costa Rica within the Assemblies of God within our district. I don't know how it is other places that within 7 1 + 81 if somebody retires or really the pastor's often stay until death, you know, they live right next door. They may live at the back of the church. So if for some reason they they retire and there is no Pastor then it is the responsibility of the press better than to take on the church no matter where it's at and so are Presbyterians Oberto has two churches the church and cinta-kita and then farther up the road is Babylon 5. They have to cross the River from sapek way to get to both of these he had to take the search on because I know pastor and so it does take them a bit to get there. It does take so so we've had opportunity to help with the kitchen, but we've also had opportunity with Chelsea and helping with building the classroom that will also serve as the comedor which is where they can eat as well when they have church meetings and they almost always almost every Sunday. So it is a real blessing and you'll see it in the video. We had a church come from The Nine Mile to help us with the project. So you get a little bit of feel of What teams do when they come to help us as well and the church monterio the harbor. They're the ones that gave some money to help with the classroom project as well. So you will see that a little bit in the video.

Hey buddy, Gary Cathy Heinrich to your missionaries in Costa Rica. And we hope you enjoy the video of the project that you helped us with.

If you can see it takes a little bit for us to get the supplies across the river. This is our free River 6:15. The first came from Nanaimo that came in July and this is how we got across the river was a little rough. banana banana trailer

Batman started building on kitchen set an alarm for 3 a.m.

Different can I think he wants to show them how to do connect the two buildings?

So This Is How We Do concrete at least I have water here in another church plant, there's no water so they can we go with the sand and cement

And these are all of the capacitor won't put out on our cat. We're going to be working, you know on Thursday. How many people came to we need to know for food? And the more that can have the better off we are because moorhens make the light go to work later. So these are pastors and men from different churches that have come. And Gary is working to he's not just so you could go work.

Last year, you all helped us with a raising funds to build a Sunday school room and a multi-purpose room for the church in Corona and we've been sucking away at it all year and we just recently had a team come and they also helped to build and so there's a little bit left to do on it Gary needs to go back and there's a part in between the two the roof of the kitchen and the roof of the Sunday School room that he wants to do something else too. But we are just heading back to Canada in about a week. And so that might just have to wait but we just wanted to say thank you for for sewing into our ministry and for sowing into the people of Corona. A little bit of our special projects that we look at we have also here's some other pictures Sean has to get me sign back into that. Do I. Oh, okay.

First are special projects which are like this bathroom project. We have pastors come to us continually and they know that we have funds for a week. We don't always have friends. But if they go ahead and and go to the hardware store get a list of what they need get all the expenses. So we have some sort of an idea that we can look at it and say how much do you have and how much money is the whole project? Can it be how desperate are you I mean some places they need a bathroom or two and this one turned out to be very nice. It was nice enough before but they they had the money they raised the money and they we help them with their bathroom the second bathroom. That's the the block and would build. He just came to us and he said all I need is a toilet. Is that okay? And we said yeah, you've built all that. Well, which toilet do you want let's go find a toilet, you know, and so then it takes the the time and getting it on the boat to get it across the river as well. So they come to us and they say we have this project. I mean we reserve the right they know we can't promise you but you know, we can line them up and if a church calls us and says or if we see the church has given extra $600 we call and say what is this money for it was just extra you can do with it. Whatever you want. What would you mind if we help this church, you know what the new bathroom and most often they don't care what we use it for but it's just extra funds so they have to put the time and we never ever ever do a project if they have not taken the time to go to the to the Lumberyard and figure out their supplies and sometimes you know, if they figure it In October and we don't do the project till March. Obviously the price is changed and then we have to make a few adjustments. But sometimes it's the the the thing in the list that is the most expensive that they can't do but they can do you know other things and so that's how we kind of work out the special projects to do with leadership training. So we go to the Past becomes ask for a project he has to get there from the list of materials. So that means he has to plan he has to know the material list. He has to know what he's building. He has to work with his people on getting that list squared away. He also has to cast The Vision for the church. This is what I want to do. This is where we're going. Can I get the membership on board to build the bathroom bathrooms are easy. Everybody's home remind me to tell you. But if it's a roof or something else is the same thing as all leadership training and then he has to work with us as missionaries. Okay, let's look at this. Let's plan this out. Maybe your vision for the The way that you want to build it can't have different ideas. And so we changed the idea of a little bit. Maybe it's a prefabrik if I would call it. What is a prefabricated building and so we might go with that route or we might go aullwood or we might go block and would like you see this bathroom so many different options just so it's a whole a whole planning thing and it's all about leadership training.

We have to make sure that they sometimes I bring us a huge project and we're like, you know, what we don't have $8,000, but what if we broke that up into four monks and then your people can buy into this more then then this for 8,000 dollars, right? Because when you're selling tamales and you're making empanadas and your they're a dollar a piece, I mean $8,000 that's like that's going to be like, I don't know 5 years, you know, so if we help them to cut it down and break it up into chunks and then they can see it a little bit better and their people can invest easier in the project to you and say hey, you know, I got a project I got this great vision. I know you guys will be on board, but it's going to cost about eight million. Are you ready? And you got right but if you broke it down into small chunks that you can chew on a little bit maybe it might go 8 million still quite a bit of good luck. But do we break it down? So it's a little bit easier for the people to keep up with us in in finding a project in its me because every step in fact, we just finished up a church plant, which I think we have a spider that in there at the end. We are Peta and so we we do in steps the first it's Milling the lumber so we actually cut the tree down in the jungle. We have people Mill All the lumber and make all the lumber rough cut with chainsaws and then we leaned it up to dry while that's drawing we do the concrete. That's the next step and then we build that's the third step and then we lay concrete floor. That's the third step in the next painting and so on and so forth. And so we just break it up a little bit as we go along. It's not only for its right here on the screen. Actually. It's not only for church building, but we want to invest in the communities as well. So this isn't a technical school in Cheney kitchen and we first. The presbyters said this bull about of our church people their children go to the school and the Department of Health came and said sorry but we're going to close your school down and then every year that there's something that's not right. They that one year the tile has to go up this high in the bathroom the next year. It has to go all the way to the ceiling and if you don't put it to the ceiling then they're going to close down but there's other things that happened like the old school would get flooded and so they said it's not sanitary your bathrooms aren't that great. So we're closing down so they came to us and said is there anyway you can help and we're like what we don't just balls like, you know, we don't know and so they came back to us again and said, you know, this is this is the project and you know, Costa Rican people pay taxes, they pay taxes and that the government has money for schools and there's a rotted for you know for a dish. Dennis and everything. I mean like it's there sometimes it's the fact that the administrator in the school cannot has to be the parent group who asks for funds and end up getting a new school, but it cannot be the administrator or one of the teachers running this and asking for the funds from the government. Okay, so long ago, they promised the indigenous a new spa and year after year and nothing happened. So we went ahead it wasn't that much money. I think total we put in $6,000 with the help of our boss and another Ministry put some fun than and we had six classrooms to build and the bathrooms in the middle. And so we said, okay we went bought some of the supplies and came back and they were almost finished they were painting and then all of the sudden all this money kicks in in the Look at that there's six classrooms. So I guess we're going to go ahead and give them the money that's been allotted to them for years now, right? And so all of the sudden this technical school starts getting built and we were invited to the Grand Opening which was quite interesting because it's a humongous big beautiful spoke. But the thing I need to tell you is it says 50 daytime students decide before it's okay 50 daytime students and 250 students at night. So what happens is the regular students the children go to school during the day at night. They have 200 students who are 15 years old and up. So you know what, that means is that You know when you're a very young age the family needs you the family needs you to work in the banana plantation with the little bit of bananas if they have or plantains, so you're working. You're not at school anymore. So there are so many people who haven't finished their education 15 years and up to who knows how old that go late afternoon and evenings in this pool. Fantasy the gymnasium. It's really huge is extremely beautiful. And I think did you mention of the lady she's what is the Minister of Education of Costa Rica and it was really nice because they're sitting in there in his beautiful gym or like wow, this is so incredible. The Lord has really done a work in this community really for the hole. I cut back her reserve and she comes walking and she's walking like the queen and she's there and like that and everybody is clapping and everything. Like what who is this? We don't know anybody, you know, it it turns out it was the minister of education and so it was quite a big deal and so very very proud of that situation since then we've also I just want to say so the minister of hell, she came in fine and she was an hour late, but she had been with the president of Costa Rica up above and another small community where they had built another school like the year before and so the president didn't show up, but she did but late so we waited and waited. It was so hot and then she made the comment look at how beautiful the school is and you know, make sure you take care of it and everything and I so wanted to stand up and say well hello. There was no school. They were going to close this baby down and all of a sudden here it is. Right. I mean that's not nice. I would have done that but she wouldn't have recognized me. Anyway, she would like sit down over there a white girl thing is is that now we have I wouldn't say that they would invite us to do everything but but the director of the school knows us and the end and if at any time we come up with some good ideas, like maybe values and and different things that maybe we can blast the teachers that are in the school. Just go and say hey today we're going to have a little in a refreshment time and we just want to say thank you to you for what you've done they would let us and so that is a big plus for the community of Nikita and the surrounding area because now they don't have to send their children away far away to school everyday.

Do this one here is a place called Los Angeles. It takes 2 hours to get there by 4 wheel drive. We do have to cross a few streams to get there in full drive truck and its way up on top of the mountain. It's at the tippy-top of the mountain and you can actually see the ocean from up there so high up and and they have internet there. It's amazing. So they asked us if we would help with their project to in this community and we said sure and so we built his Cutlass cost from right across them. And I think we may even want us to do after the class was built to start working on a bathroom with them and it's really need to start investing in these communities cuz we a couple years before this we planted a church. So now that it's the connection from the missionaries helping and the church is helping with the school and it's that church over there. So again, we have our foot in the door at least the begin to work with children to have kids programs at this church that we planted for the future and that's the whole idea of working with the schools and in the Communities used to have a good testimony for our church we planted so we're going to plant in the next year. We're going to plant another brand new church. It's in a place called oral Chico and we do have to cross a big river to get there as well. It seems like we're always crossing the river right? So we have to cross the river to get there. It's a beautiful drive. It's a beautiful location, but they asked us if we would build a new bathroom for them. So we went ahead and invested in that bathroom as well and we're going to build that new church. And so the connection will both be there. So if that church does its work, it can still have inroads into the school at Noah's children to be able to invest in them. Not only a good education and a good place to learn but also in the word of God and that's really important to begin to change a whole Community start with our children that they will grow up to be adults. It will just begin to rotate through the whole process over and over again. So in the Los Angeles school project, we're standing in front of the main school and it's just a big one room wood wood structure. And so then the other classroom that they're building at the moment that we helped with some of the supplies is behind and they said that the students that are the younger ones are very distracting to the older students. I've never been in a classroom where we had, you know, the little ones up to grade six. And so so this orange school room is the kindergarten interesting enough. They have a very nice bathroom. I thought that was all they have a very nice bathroom, but the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education needs them to put another bathroom behind that orange building or the little kindergarten kids. They can't apparently use the same bathroom as the other children. I don't know what that's about but that's an another and another project and there they already have the wood. They weren't there already started building we helped with the the roofing for that building. So it shouldn't take too long for the the next bus from to be up. Next slide is just an example is our church plant that we did of this year and literally the day before we left. It wasn't the David Note 2 days before we poured this concrete in at the day on the plane. They finish that last little section of doing the concrete in this church that we built in a place called la peda which means the pair so I don't know if there's any pear trees there and defrost but it's called Little Peta. And so you can see the people already meeting in there with their benches that they made out of planks in cinder block and cut off logs dumps. And so now that you can see this aside here still in all of our projects, whatever they might be weather be the Bible Institute, whatever be special projects Community projects search plants any of that if you guys are any churches that are out there on the web for any person want to help help out over and above what you normally give to us than that money goes into those projects for example is church are the next step will be painting it'll be siding and painting and so if your church decided that you would want to help out with Milling the siding or the paint then what we do is take that money. We would acknowledge that we tell Sean. Okay, we receive the money. What's the score? He's dates for paint. Okay, we would save that money when they're ready for the paint. We would buy the paint and then as their pain. We would begin to take pictures of them taking paint all the product that you invested in and send them back to Pastor Sean so that he could show you guys the work that you've done in this church and maybe a testimony from one of the Pastors in Spanish saying thank you. It means so much. Kind of thing is so we really think that's important that you guys see the money that you're investing into this ministry be used. You're feeling what you're investing in. Now this whole presentation is because of church is just like you investing in our ministry. And so we do thank you guys. So tremendously for that. Fake nails that they have obviously is some sort of chairs or benches or they make just wouldn't you know, Q's, right. So in the first picture if you can see use me, it is actually the round part of the tree they cut that off and then it's really hard to say. They don't mind it, but man it breaks my back. I think should we not turn this over bike and put a nail through like the other direction. So we're sitting on the part not the brown part. So it would be really nice to have some some benches in there as well know there's not so have a thing called the oven Helia and it's an all-nighter service. So that's a tough one for us. We're kind of getting older. We like to get to bed around 7, but it seems like anyways, but I always tell them they need to have a d Leone eat there. Like what the Delian I said, it's the same thing but during the day it works so much better. You should try it there like out Gary forget it. So so this here is we're starting to see more cooperation within the two zones that we worked 71 in a 181 and Alta talamanca, which is the indigenous group in Salamanca. Now if you want to call it lower talamanca, is it goes All the way to limone it goes from the border Panama border all the way to Limon where the cruise ships dock. And so those two zones you can see here's the presbyters and their wives and myself working together to take them to a prosperous beating 10 hours away in a place called Guanacaste sits up by the border of Nicaragua on the Pacific side. So catty corner is a long drive. So I paid for the meals and I paid for transportation so that they can also been pay the money it would take to stay in that facility that we went to on the other side the day before I left. I got to speak at a Men's Ministry men of our Men of Honor you going to say in Spanish but Men of Honor and that was so much fun. Those guys are incredible guy. There's just something about men all being in the same room singing with that bass and I like I told him I'd go to war with you guys. It just sounded so good right and at one point they had this chair.