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Joy

Joy

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Crossville, Tennessee, United States
Hi, I'm Joy! I'm the creator behind Memory Mosaic. I believe every life is a beautiful mosaic, built from moments both ordinary and extraordinary. Thanks for stopping by—I hope you'll find inspiration here to celebrate, preserve, and share your own stories.

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Monday, February 23, 2009

Carnival Vacation

Good morning everyone! This week-end is "Carnival" here in Ecuador. The kids are all out of school and most people are off work today and tomorrow. The traditional thing, besides for everyone who doesn't live on the coast to go for vacation...is to throw water on people. These days everywhere you go, you need to be on the look out for water balloons, water guns, buckets of water, cups of water, whatever... No one can tell me where this tradition of throwing water at people came from, but everyone seems to have a great time!

Our family had a good week. We had a great trip to Santo Domingo last week. Enjoyed very much being a part of the Valentine's banquet at Iglesia Biblica Bautista Rey de Vida. Tony also preached there Sunday morning. This is their "Missions Emphasis Month" and it was special to be a part of that. We also enjoyed a few days visiting with our good friends, Joe and Sylvia Wells. We returned home Tuesday evening, and pretty much hit the ground running. Wednesday was the Men's and Ladies Bible Studies in Portoviejo. Thursday I had a few visits to make...Friday one of the ladies from the church visited me, and Saturday was our monthly Ladies meeting here at the house. We had 14 and I thought that was pretty good, considering this is a "vacation week-end".

We had good services yesterday. Not sure what the attendance was, but estimate it was in the 80's. We started our new Sunday School class yesterday, so now we have 3 children's classes. Pre-school, 3-5 year olds, Primaries 1st-3rd grade, and Intermediates, 4th-6th grade. We also have a class for kids 7th-10th grade.

After our church service here in Manta, we headed over to Portoviejo and had church there. Then back home, to get things ready for Bible Study and our last meeting to organize our "mini" VBS. Things seem to be ready for that, and we are excited to see what the Lord does through this outreach. We will be starting Thursday evening and going through Sunday. This is the first "VBS" we have done one our own here, so we have been excited to see the response of the people and look forward to the blessings God gives us this week.

Thank you for your prayers for the ministry here in Manta. I pray that each one of you have a wonderful week!

Blessings,
Joy
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