REMEMBER THIS!

the secret caverns ! :D

guinea hog

matt and jake keeping their faces out of the fire and kayla,
hannah and alyssa cutting leafy greens

Mother (Luke) & grammy(Mrs.Z)with the new baby

alyssa & mike
breaking
sticks for our
service project.

the baby goats in Ghana

waiting for our fire to start in Ghana

this is one of the barns

~Lauren

We're Back

I have been asked to keep this blog live for a while so that we can continue to add pictures and stories from our time away. So check back often!

I have missed running the sheep and goats recounting to anyone who will listen some of our adventures. It was a fantastic time. This Sunday I will highlight our experience for the reflection/sermon so the congregation can get more of an idea of what we did. If you can be there, please come and be a part of it.

As I have said to Keith, I miss you all. Guess I got used to spending the day with you. I could never express the pride I feel for the way you rose of every challenge. You embraced this opportunity and were model ambassdors of this church and community.

I can't wait to make new memories in other mission opportunities.

In God's Service,
Pastor Daven

THANK YOU

This is a personal thank you to the church congregation and all those who supported us through the whole experience of fundraising and then actually going to Outlook Farm :)
-Kayla

Final Morning

I already tried typing once and it disappeared. Chores are soon so I don't have much time to write. It's another beautiful morning and we are all anxious to get home to you. We will be leaving soon after chores hoping to sit down together for some pizza before our tour of Secret Cavern. Much love and blessing to you all. You should be very proud of these youth!

We will be keeping the blog active for as there has been a request to add with pictures and more explanations once we have returned to home. So be sure to check back.

See you soon,
Pastor Daven

Global Village: Guatamala

This is our whole group getting ready to start our global village day. We were spilt into two groups before dinner and the night, but had lunch in Ghana.

Welcome to Guatamala!

This is the Garcia family: Grandpa Daven, Papa Mike, Jacob (the proud mother of a bouning baby ballon) Cripple Alyssa (don't freak out parents it was just simulated injury) and Hannah who's not in the picture.

Buying our dinner at the market (Bean and tortillas)

Alyssa is with our alarm clocks, the screaming nubian goats. They're really friendly! And most of us milked them at one time or another.

Home Sweet Home! Rural Eastern Kentucky....

Goodnight Lucas, Goodnight Keith, Goodnight Kayla, Goodnight Scott, Goodnight Lauren, Goodnight Granny Z, Goodnight Spencer, Goodnight Matt!

The Walton's DO EXIST! Oh and add ONE - Lucy (AKA Luke) had a baby - LOL....

They told me this was a "VEGAN" plantation.....

What? We have to get the sheep to go WHERE?....

Our lunch at "Ghana" - YUM!

Mom's are best at some things

2 of our campers have gotten sick.....maybe the diet or lack thereof....one was Matt....thanks be to God that Mommy was here, but like any good basketball player Matt was able to "hit the target" or toilet.....Mike was less fortunate today in that while sitting it came out the top and hit the floor! No worries, Mommah Z cleaned it up and was wise enough to bring the Pepto....all is well now!

Hey Gang - It's Mommah Z. we have had another busy and fun filled day....after sleeping in "Appalachia" with 6 teenagers and being awakened by several roosters, it was a beautiful morning filled with.....NOT coffee (unfortunately), but yummy, pasty oatmeal cooked by Ma Jensen (AKA Lauren Nash) over the fire pit outside our trailer home....yummy. Other exciting news today - we got to muck out the goat barn...and stack hale bales in the barn - whoo- HOO! So invigorating and delightfully fragrant. For all you parents out there....I did visit the local Big Y supermarket and was able to purchase some essential missing dietary items like - CANDY .....JK....but really we all wanted fresh fruit and candy, so the kids have really appreciated that especially after all the "wall paper paste" we got to eat in the Global Village. We are having lots of fun herding goats and sheep and visiting with the animals here.....met lots of new and nice people who are also staying at the farm. I bribed some of them to do my chores today (i.e. barn cleaning) by offering some of the cookies brought from home.....thanks to all for that. We leave tomorrow and my hope is that who ever is riding in my vehicle takes a shower before we go....LOL......so if you are speaking on line please encourage your son/daughter to take a shower prior to our departure tomorrow! See you all tomorrow night! God speed and safe travels for us!

Day 4 after global village

Hey mom and dad! Yesterday was a very hard day...I couldn't eat any of my food I brought and I got a little dizzy but it was all part of the experince. PS I am ok (: I ended up being the head of the household and was the only one who could read, handle the money, and I had to get all are food from the market with only $10! We had Luke sing for our eggs and milk, but it was so good that they gave us our baking powder/soda, pepper and butter for our cornbread. I'll be back to blog later because our activity is starting soon! ~Lauren

After a night in the global village, we got oatmeal for breakfast. It was AWESOME! Even though I dont usually eat oatmeal. It was better than beans last night. We got to stay in Guatemala. With the screaming goats. Who woke me up this morning with their shrieking. I was the one with the vitamin deficiency, so I couldnt use my right hand the entire night. Then we got to snack this morning, which was the best part. And yesterday, guess what? I volunteered to run in front of the goats. They have to be moved to grazing pens and back to the barn each day, so someone has to run in front of them with a feed bucket yelling 'Goats, goats, goats!' so they know where to go. I almost got run over by a herd of goats! It was SO COOL! See you all tomorrow.
~Alyssa
P.S.- If I may put in a suggestion for dinner on Sunday, chicken soup or steak sounds good. You guys are the best!

Last night was one of the craziest nights of my life. Our group (Mrs. Zimmerman, Keith Zimmerman, Lauren Jensen, Matt Zimmerman, Spencer Monrian, Luke DeNies, and Scott Boofer) stayed in the good ol' USA! Kentucky's Appalaichan Mountain range to be exact. Lauren was the head of household, Luke was crowned a "mother" and Spencer had vitamin deficiency which resulted in a non-functioning arm. All in all the experience was amazing and I would definitley want to do another night. I wanted to be in Peru soooooo bad but another group got to stay there. For dinner we had cornbread, bean soup, and fried (?) greens. I only ate the cornbread.
Talk again soon! There's lots more to tell!
-KAYLA_

DAY 3

Hey guys :) This is our third day on the Heifer farm in Massachusetts!

I AM SO HUNGRY! Today is the day that our group spends a night in the global village. The countries are Guatamala, Peru, Thailand, Ghana, USA, and many others. We had our first meal like those of a third world country at lunch time today. And we haven't eaten since then!
We will try our best to right more once our experience in the village has ended.
Hey mom i bet this sounds familar... I am hungry!!! (: ~Lauren
We all send love,
Kayla and the rest of the Youth

Another Beautiful Day on the Farm

Good Morning All!
We just finished chores (another exciting herding of sheep and goats down to pastures for the day). We have a brief five minutes before starting our group project for the day. Of course that means that everyone had to fetch food and use the bathroom even though we finished breakfast only an hour and a half ago! Ah, youth--eternally hungry and in need of the bathroom. We don't have a lot of down time so we blog when we can, but that seems to be reserved to 30 minutes at the end of the day. For those concerned about Jake's head, he just bumped it when getting up from his lower head. It wasn't a real injury, but the concern is appreciated.
It's cooler today, but another gloriously sunny day. I have been herded to our next thing so off I go.
Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers.
P-Didds, otherwise known as Pastor Daven