The month of June started out strong for us with a Rewards Water Park Fun Day June 1st sponsored by our dear friend Nancy Baughan at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Our lovely Jami and Leah Carneal helped to chaperone the trip for over a dozen girls who earned all their discipleship points for the reward experience. What a delightful time we had and the girls were able to see how all their hard work in their bible studies and English classes has paid off.
Jami and Leah were such a delight to host. Our children spend a lot of time with them during our Virginia visits as Jami tutors them and Leah helps to babysit. The bond the Lord has given us with the Carneal family is truly special. Not only did they pour into our children and family, but led bible studies, icebreaker games and were in the homes of some of our families, making tortillas and learning about life on mission in Herradura. When our monthly supporting families come to serve alongside us, there’s something very beautiful that happens. A connection to remember for sure!
Thanks to Jami’s investment in our children’s academics, we’re able to say each of the kids has progressed to another academic level. Here are their end of year Kindergarten and 3rd grade pictures. Windsor, turned 6 this month & will return to Horizon International School for 1st grade while River will continue homeschooling for 4th grade. This flexibility allows him more time to be on mission with us, which will be very helpful as we have 6 teams in 6 months coming August through January. Both children spend time at their old child care Pequenos Angelitos to continue Spanish development. River is now a volunteer in the baby's classroom and was even able to take some older students on a field trip for a beach clean up. The children also graduated from their Awana classes and earned completed trophies and badges for their commitment to memorized scripture. What a delight our Horizon Church community has been for our family.
Our van continues to be on the go taking students to volleyball ministry, picking up students for discipleship groups and driving to new partnership opportunities like helping mission teams at the local school. We are prayerfully hopeful to have more classes inside the Herradura public school and thankful for our partnership with the Director and teachers thus far. More than half of the girls in our program attend the school, so it’s very fun to walk the halls and see them. Please for many of our 6th grade girls who will make the transition to high school, needing to take public transportation to Jaco’s high school. It’s a drastic transition and we know our girls need that divine protection.
River, Windsor and Jordanna left June 19th for their 5 week visit to Virginia. David Donahue from Manassas Baptist Church kindly welcomed them in the Dulles area and drove them to Tappahannock where they got busy preparing for the annual Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser put on by Women’s Connect Ministry, Beale Memorial & Howerton’s Baptist Church. While the dinner was less attended than years past, the event raised double what it had earned previously. Yet another demonstration that our God’s will, will prevail always. How magnificent and astonishing it is to the support of those who love the Ailors and women and girls of this ministry. Thank you!
Upcoming Prayer Requests & Dates
July 8th: Jordanna will be speaking at Manassas Baptist Church
July 22 - 26th: Jordanna and Pepper will be the missions speakers at Eagle Eyrie’s Family Missions Camp representing NOW Costa Rica and Freedom Alliance
July 27: The Ailor family will fly direct, red-eye back flight to Costa Rica to transition back to life on mission there.
Aug 13th: The Brennan Family along with a Freedom Alliance Mission team will come to serve for a week at Horizon Church’s newly established Men’s Rehab facility and work with the students of NOW Costa Rica teaching them to swim, learn how to make soap and pouring into the mothers of our girls on Costa Rican Mother’s Day August 15th. We know the mothers will be truly blessed, but our students as well seeing as many do not know how to swim.
Sept 9 - 13th: Howerton’s Baptist Church will send a team of 8 to help pay for the launch of the Casita, the small house adjacent to the future multiuso. This will provide us with a kitchen, bathrooms and two bedrooms to be used for emergency shelter, intern quarters or ministry partners to stay in when they visit. Without Howerton’s, we would not be this far along in the launch of this initiative. The team is also equipped with an interpreter, and three returning mission team members, so be praying for amazing impact.
Nov 1 - 5: The Porch Church in Goochland, VA will send a team to do a VBS with our students. This team will be 12 in total, several of whom are elementary, middle and high school students. We’re excited to see the impact that the young people will have amongst our students. The team is equipped with their own translator and hope to make this the first of many trips.
Nov 5 - 10: Hutt & Teresa Williams of Tappahannock will be bringing a team of 6 to help launch another new initiative, a bunk bed project. Many of our students live in low lying areas alongside the riverbank and in the rainforest region, often getting devastatingly flooded. Having bunk beds will truly aid in putting small children on higher levels and provide for better sleeping space for families.
We are very thankful to have a 2024 video update, thanks to my husband, that showcases where we are in the construction process for the Mulituso. We also have teams coming who are eager to help with some of the needed construction and sponsorship of items for the Casita. Please enjoy this video update and if the Lord calls you, your family or local church community to sponsor an appliance, portion of the build or the like, take a look at the upcoming needs that will be essential beginning in October of 2024.
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