PILLOWS AND MORE PILLOWS

The girls have been busy!

They are doing a great job! We are really excited about the sales!

We stopped at the tortilla shop on Thursday. It's amazing how many tortillas they can turn out with just two people.This little lady is showing Joe how it is done but he is not allowed to help. The tortillas are delicious, they were almost gone by the time we got home.

 Mother and daughter working together!

I am really glad to see this happening. It's good

that we are getting the interest from the younger ladies.

 

Bruce and Cindy joined us on Saturday. We picked them up at the airport and have been on the run ever since.

We attended church on Sunday at St. Andrews Anglican Church and spent most of the afternoon relaxing.

 

A beautiful evening, very cool night.

Tomorrow sewing in Los Tambos. 

THE WEEKEND WAS GREAT!

I'm sure most of you don't want to hear that. Finally no rain for us! This weekend we could do all the fun things like dry clothes, clean the mud out of the car and go to market with out drowning. 

It was beautiful. Nights are still cool in the low 60s but makes for good sleeping.

 This is Joe's new office from here he can watch the hummingbirds as they fly through. There are lots of them. We need Doc Collier here to tell us what kind they are.

I'm not sure how much work he gets done but he looks busy.

I spent two days cataloging and organizing 3 totes of fabric for quilting. We all are so excited and  very thankful for all the donations that were made! Beautiful fabrics!

Today the ladies were making coffee mats. We will be selling them in several different places. 
One of which is Tennessee.
Today was the last day of practice from here on out we will be making the ones for sale. We will be showing those later.


We have approximately 32 pillows for sale. We will be using Belize Market Place Face Book and several local shops. As of today I think we have already sold 10 so the girls are really excited.  AND me too. They have worked very hard and have done a nice job. I'm very proud of them.

Tomorrow we are in Buena Vista working on the same projects.
More tomorrow I hope!

Sorry about the delay...……..the internet and computer just wouldn't cooperate.

Sometimes that happens.

Today is Friday and we have been here for 3 weeks now!

So hard to believe 3 weeks ago today we punched out of the clouds above Knoxville to see a beautiful sunrise then on to Belize.

The past three weeks have been full of getting settled, organizing our sewing supplies and starting  our sewing classes.

The girls have been really busy in both sewing rooms. As you can see by our production of pillows.

We made 36 pillows!

They will soon be going to Market on FB.

Right now we have 6 ladies sewing in Los Tambos.

and we have 7 ladies sewing in Buena Vista

We are happy to have some young ladies that are really interested in learning and they are doing very well.Then we have some really younger ones who just come to play.

 We have had a lot of children out
with colds and flu.

Occasionally we have had visitors...……….

This is in a tree just off the porch. We have the momma and the baby on the left and the papa on the right. They are howler monkeys and they can make a lot of noise. This day they were very quiet. The baby must have been sleeping.

This is such a beautiful place and looking around every day it never ceases to amaze me how Great God is! We are blessed to have the opportunity to serve Him.

So far my computer and the internet are still speaking to each other so maybe I will be able to give regular updates.

Have a wonderful weekend!

16 th trip to Belize

The countdown begins!!

Packing begins. 

Leaving on Friday January 3rd. 

Please keep us in your prayers. 

October 14, 2019  

Sun comes up it's a new day.......and a new trip 

The plans and packing have started!

Threads of Hope Mission Trip

2020

Leaving January 3rd 

and returning on April 3rd.

 Back to see all our friends in Belize.

The bigs ones, the little ones, the young ones and the old. Excited to see them all. Lots of beautiful smiling faces.

Last year we had rainy days and rainbows!

AND we had HOT days.

We had fun and giggling days!

We had market days,worship days, laundry days, sewing days, cleaning days and embroidery days. And in all 91 days God was right in the middle! Always guiding our steps.

We are so blessed to be a part of this mission.

We hope you are able to follow along with the blog again this year.

Linda and Joe

 May we be singing when the evening comes.

April 7, 2019

We are back home!

Arrived home Friday evening at about 9:00PM.

The beginning of March through April 5th was a blurr!

We will post about what was going on during those weeks. Some of you that are on 

FaceBook have already seen a few pictures.

The entire trip was amazing and we are looking forward to sharing pictures soon.

Still singing when the evening comes.... 

Bless the Lord

 WEEK # 8! and we moved through that pretty quick and are working on WEEK #9 !

             Another new day! 

Thank you Jesus for such a beautiful gift! We pray that we will do a good job for you today. We are so blessed to be here.

Week #8 passed quickly with Los Tambos working on school uniforms and Buena Vista still finishing up some projects.

As you can see Joe always has a gathering of children around him when he works. So much so that you can barely see him in the upper left hand corner. 

I think in this picture they really look like they are learning something. 

Week #8 finished with another beautiful sun rise only this time in the fog. 

Same day, later in the afternoon. We had many discussions about what this cloud would be. Email me your thoughts. We are easily entertained. 

Something else we do is to teach sewing to anyone who sits down at the machine. This is Mark and he did a great job! Always fun to teach someone eager to learn!

The day is coming to a close .....shadows are getting longer and soon it will be dark about 6:00. Things cool down and become comfortable. Nice for sleeping. 

Week #9

Then we start again! Monday in Los Tambos!

 Joe is rallying the troops mid afternoon! Everyone gets a couple pieces of candy. The ladies are unbelievable! They started sewing uniforms on February 13th and in three weeks they sewed 106 shirts. Today they started the skirts. 

Arcelye has been entertaining herself by eating and playing with rice. I think she is storing a little on her head for later.

I believe she should get a special prize because today she made it all day without hitting the mud puddles once.  

Tuesday will be in Buena Vista. The sewing class is learning to make uniforms! Rose is going along to help instruct the class. 

We also have our embroidery class at lunch time and then again at 2:30! 

Now we are running against the clock to get all of our projects finished before we leave April 5th.