Sept Newsletter
September 1, 2007
Eric and Emily Lizarazu
Ben 7, Lydia 4, Ellie 2, Julia 6mo
Cochabamba, Bolivia
South America
Sept. 2007Hi Everyone!
What a wonderful few months we have had. Time has slipped away and I think this has been the fastest year of my life! I will recap just a bit. In April when we arrived, we got ready for a move. We chose a house about 40 minutes out of town and in need of a paint job, plumbing and a bit more. It is a nice house with the bathroom in-doors and the kitchen in-doors too. (Our other house had these necessities outside on the patio. ) We lack a good phone and internet services out here though. May and June arrived and as the kids started school, we finished settling in our new house. Eric was out at camp a lot taking supplies and getting the workers ready for the work teams to come. We had 4 work teams back to back this year. It felt like a wonderfully long family visit. Most of the teams were from the same area. They accomplished many tasks and encouraged us to work in areas that we ordinarily would not have ventured into due to our other duties. We did a VBS, dental clinic outreach in a near village, tore down a building, started building new rooms at the village church, worked with the ladies group helping them to sell their weavings, taught them how to use some special looms, hauled cement, showed the Jesus film to 400 World Vision kids, constructed a new mess hall, visited Compassion projects, and and and…Then August arrived and we began September. In the mean time, the extra land we hoped to buy sold. We are looking at another piece but the logistics of just getting to it is our greatest problem. The price is right. The area beautiful but the road is on the iffy side, not to mention that it is a 2- hour iffy drive. Our need is to purchase some land to have as over flow land to hold camps on. Camp Kewina is full all year around now. There are 2 and sometimes 3 camps on the property each week.
Bolivia and politics: Read Isaiah 59:8. The way of peace they do not know, there is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads: no one who walks in them will know peace. There is a vote to approve the new Constitution. It is not a good one. We
are in for some tough times!Blessings and Greetings from Bolivia!
The Lizarazu Family
