Hosting the Camrose Alberta Canada Team

The Century Meadows Baptist Church team from Camrose, Alberta, Canada have arrived safely and got right to work! After working extremely hard for three days, they set off on their two tourist days. Saturday was spent in El Centro: downtown Mexico City. They saw many things: the Bascilica of the Virgin Guadalupe (the large Catholic Church honoring Mexico's Virgin Mary figure), the Ciudadela de Artesanias (Artisans Craft Market), the Casa de Azulejos (House of Tiles), the Zocalo (the main square in downtown Mexico City), and the Metropolitan Cathedral. Rest was provided while waiting in traffic during the short-distance-but-long-time-spent trip back to the Retreat Center. Sunday brought shorter distances to travel. Igelsia Biblica Cristo Vive (Christ Lives Bible Church) was where the group worshipped with fellow Mexican Christians. Two members of the team shared their testimonies with the congregation. The preacher was animated and gave an empassioned hour and 10 minute long sermon, all in Spanish! Then we had tortas for lunch (similar to submarine sandwiches) and were off to spend the afternoon at the nearby Pyramids of Teotihuacan. The Pyramid of the Sun provides 248 steps of varying sizes to climb. The Pyramid of the Moon is built on a higher elevation and though it is smaller than the Pyramid of the Sun, the tops of both pyramids are the same altitude. What engineering! Today the group set back to work. The photos displayed above: 1) triumph on the Pyramid of the Moon with the Pyramid of the Sun in the background 2) group photo [one gentleman not in the photo] 3) admiring the Metropolitan Cathedral 4) the "before" photo of the enormous room that this team has applied 4 tons of tiles to. Today, they will apply the grout between the tiles. 5) the building where this large room is located in on the second floor. It will be our indoor games room which will be well used during the summer rainy season months! We are also delighted to have all of the toilet plumbing replaced. This coming summer, one faulty continuously filling toilet tank is NOT going to rob us of all our water in the cistern and leave us with 75 people and no water! We are so grateful and pleased by the quality and quantity of work that has all ready been accomplished. We are so blessed to have brothers and sisters in Christ from another country (in this case, Canada) who are so generous with their time, money, and hard work. The dream of a fruitful ministry at the Retreat Center grows as each construction project is completed!