My Lucy watching the birds, rabbits and squirrels in the back yard, wondering why she's not allowed out to play with them... :o(
Poor baby. Pardon the nose marks on the window...

Playing with some of the photos of the missionary kids in Brazil. Hannah and Maddie.

Amanda

Hezekiah

This little girl and her mom spent some time with us on the boat in Espirit de Santo. Cassie spent some time trying to get her to draw. She was very shy but opened up a little bit after some time and after some other kids joined in.

Loading the water filters onto the rowboat is a heavy balancing act. Ben is scooping water out of the filter and boat, Zeke is steadying the boat and Eliazondo will pull the filter into the boat as Richie and others push it from inside the Maranatha III. You can see the toll it takes on the boat's paint job. They loaded 3 filters, the hand truck, enough gravel, sand and rocks for each filter and 5 people into the rowboat for this particular delivery!! To learn about eh water filters go to thirstrelief.org.

Isn't this water lily pad beautiful? I think it looks like a heart. This was taken at the Belem Zoo. We spent an afternoon there during our 3 day lay over waiting for a flight to Altamira. Our time was not wasted, we met 3 young boys who followed us around all day. We got to share with them and they got to laugh at our bad Portuguese.

We couldn't dock at Mapardacia (not sure about the spelling, sorry). So, we anchored off the shore and took the rowboat to the village. This is the first bunch on their way being led by Clyde and Kevin.

This is one of the first pictures I took from the Maranatha III just after we left from Victoria.

Belem at night from the top of our hotel.

Xingu Panoramic (three shots)

Espirit de Santo - beautiful young girl who visited us on the boat.

This family visited us at the house. Big brother wanted all of his siblings to have a family picture taken. Porto de Moz

Anna - Villa Mendoza

Clay - a leader in the church at Porto de Moz

This young boy was at the small group I attended in Altamira. Not sure who he is but I love this shot. He was very shy so I had to sneak this one in...

More Early favorites

This is Leonardo. He lives in Villa Mendonza, the first village we visited. He was so cute, such a ham and made all of us smile. You may see more of him later.

This is also in Villa Mendoza. We were teaching the kids a little English. This little guy was really shy and didn't appear to be interested in learning English. I have another one of him sleeping at his desk...

A common sight. A boat tied to the dock in Espirit de Santo.

An afternoon storm coming in over Espirit de Santo.

Water lily.