BennettsOnMission - bennettsonmission

Hello, we are Scott and Sherry Bennett, or David and Ana to native Spanish speakers. We are currently living in San Jose, Costa Rica while we learn the Spanish language.

In December 2008, we will be moving to Puebla, Mexico where we will live and work amongst the urban poor telling them the message of Salvation and planting churches.

We hope our photos give you a glimpse of our wonderful journey in reaching the lost of Costa Rica and Mexico.

To get the commentary that give these photos real meaning, you can visit our blog at www.bennettsonmission.com

Recent pictures

Sherry's BDay '08

Sherrys 37th BDay
The handmade cards from the kids were my favorites!

Sherrys 37th BDay
You know how many hours it takes to read over 100 cards?

Sherrys 37th BDay
Look at all of the birthday greetings!!

Sherrys 37th BDay
Neighbors Austin and Emerson brought over birthday goodies and a card handmade by Emerson

Sherrys 37th BDay
Emerson brought me miniature donuts that are just the right size for her mouth!

Sherrys 37th BDay
The handbag that Violeta and Angela Maria bought for me.

Sherrys 37th BDay
Mylee modeling the bag for me

Sherrys 37th BDay
Angela Maria, Violeta and me with cake

Sherrys 37th BDay
Yolanda made me the necklace and braclet for my birthday

Sherrys 37th BDay
Enjoying cake and coffee with Gloria, Violeta and Angela Maria

Sherrys 37th BDay
Birthday cake compliments of Gabrielle

Sherrys 37th BDay
Juan, Scott and Aaron

Yolanda's Party

Yolanda'a Birthday
The Huge pot of chicken and rice

Yolanda'a Birthday
Yolanda's sister (green shirt), Gabrielle and Yolanda's friend getting things ready for the party

Yolanda'a Birthday
Dancing to the Latin music

Yolanda'a Birthday
Scott with Violet (she made the chicken & rice), Cynthia, and Angela Maria.

Yolanda'a Birthday
More B-Day party attenders

Yolanda'a Birthday
Waiting for the party to start

Yolanda'a Birthday
Reading the Word and presenting Yolanda with a Spanish Bible

Yolanda'a Birthday
Francisco praying for his wife and the fellowship

Yolanda'a Birthday
Yolanda's request: White cake with chocolate icing!

Yolanda'a Birthday
Gabrielle and Yolanda lighting candles-not an easy task with 37 candles!

Yolanda'a Birthday
In english we say "Make a Wish", but in spanish you say "Ask a Wish"

Yolanda'a Birthday
Look at the smoke!!!

Yolanda'a Birthday
Yummy...Chicken and Rice (Arroz con Pollo)

Yolanda'a Birthday
Yolanda's friend serving the food

Yolanda'a Birthday
Yolanda's sister serving Arroz con Pollo

Yolanda'a Birthday
The birthday girl serving drinks

Yolanda'a Birthday
Making new friends

Yolanda'a Birthday
Party goers

Yolanda'a Birthday
How cute!

Yolanda'a Birthday
Yolanda's cousin (white shirt), Francisco and Yolanda

Yolanda'a Birthday
Francisco, Yolanda and Moises

Yolanda'a Birthday
Kisses for the birthday girl

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Group photo

Yolanda'a Birthday
Just the girls

Yolanda'a Birthday
Just the guys

Travels with Jason & Kathy

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Fresh Paint....Sorry, you'll have to wait two hours for it to dry!!!

Travels with Jason & Kathy
The long line of cars waiting for the road paint to dry.

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Taken at our hotel at Volcano Arenal

Travels with Jason & Kathy
The magestic view of Arenal

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Arenal up close!

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Spectacular view!

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Taking it easy on the balcony of our hotel room complete with a view of the side of Arenal where lava flows.

Travels with Jason & Kathy
View from our hotel

Travels with Jason & Kathy
The beauty of Volcano Arenal

Travels with Jason & Kathy
When in Macawland, do as the Macaws!!

Travels with Jason & Kathy
This one wanted the chicken sandwich in my right hand!! He was flying towards me, so I ducked thinking he would fly by,

Travels with Jason & Kathy
I guess since he couldn't have the chicken sandwich, he settled for ranch dressing

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Pretty Bird

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Arenal volcano in the distance

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Tabacon Hot Springs Resort where the water is heated by the hot lava from Arenal

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Arenal errupting at night - view from our hotel

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Hotel entrance

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Tree House restaurant in Monteverde

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Geared up and ready for some adventure!!

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Landing Platform - the highest zip line was 450 ft and the longest was 2500 feet. We traveled in speeds up to 60 mph.

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Riding the zip lines together thru the cloud forest in Monteverde

Travels with Jason & Kathy
On the SkyBridge Tour

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Jason found a sculpture of a distant relative in Monteverde!! That's a remarkable resemblance!

Travels with Jason & Kathy
On the Cafe Britt coffee tour where Jason and Scott were given these hats as a reward for their participation in the sho

Travels with Jason & Kathy
After the coffee tour, Jason & Kathy took us out for Outback Steakhouse; It actually tasted very similar to the one in t

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Volcano Poas

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Beautiful butterfly at the La Paz Waterfall & Butterfly Gardens.

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Look at the intricate details of these cocoons!!

Travels with Jason & Kathy
More cocoons

Travels with Jason & Kathy
This butterfly is in the process of being "born".

Travels with Jason & Kathy
It's amazing that something so beautiful can come out of something so ugly!

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Another beautiful creation

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Murals made up of butterflies of days gone by...

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Orchid garden - La Paz Waterfall Garden

Travels with Jason & Kathy
La Paz Waterfall Garden

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Poison Dart Frogs at La Paz Waterfall Garden

Travels with Jason & Kathy
Nocturnal Leaf Frog at La Paz Waterfall Garden

Travels with Jason & Kathy
La Paz Waterfall Garden

Our Apartment

Our Apartment
View of the yard from the front (2 other apartments share the yard and the driveway)

Our Apartment
View of the front

Our Apartment
View of the living room from the kitchen

Our Apartment
View of the kitchen from the living room

Our Apartment
A closer view of the kitchen

Our Apartment
View of the kitchen from the laundry room

Our Apartment
Closer view of the kitchen

Our Apartment
View of the bedroom

Our Apartment
View of the bathroom

Our Apartment
View of the laundry room

Market Day

Market Day
Market in Zapote

Market Day
Scott purchasing cilantro

Market Day
Trying to find the best tomatoes!

Market Day
Market in Zapote

Market Day
My personal favorite!!!

Market Day
This lady sells bread on Wednesday at the school. She makes some of the best wheat bread I've ever tasted!

Market Day
Market in Zapote

School

Language School
View from the back of the Chapel

Language School
Our classrooms (two-story building in the distance)

Language School
View from the back of the Chapel

Language School
The administration building

Language School
Admin Building

Language School
Teacher introductions at orientation

Language School
Orientation

Language School
Newbies at Orientation

Language School
Our grammar teacher, Maritza

Language School
Trying to look like we're working hard in class!

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Maritza loves to use drama to emphasize the grammar concepts which makes class really fun!

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Sherry's Phonetics teacher, Gabriela

Language School
Scott's Phonetics class

Language School
Scott's Phonetics teacher, Dixiana

Language School
New student fiesta. (L to R), Julie (school director), Scott, Matthew and his wife, Angela

Language School
New student Fiesta

Granada, Nicaragua

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
Touring Granada

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
Lake Nicaragua

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
Touring Granada

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
Touring the Islands formed by the volcano eruption

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Touring the Islands formed by the volcano eruption - Monkeys inhabit this little island!

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
Touring the Islands formed by the volcano eruption - This monkey is thirsty!

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
Touring the Islands formed by the volcano eruption

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
Touring Granada

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
Volcano Masaya

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Laguna at the base of Volcano Masaya

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Touring the city of Catalina, famous for its homemade crafts

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Clowns entertaining in Catalina

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Look closely...Do you see the bullet holes in the wall?

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Touring the city of Catalina, famous for its homemade crafts

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
Sights of Granada

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
Touring Volcano Mombacho-this is a coffee plantation on the mountain

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
Touring Volcano Mombacho

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
Touring Volcano Mombacho-view of Catalina below

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
Touring Volcano Mombacho-view of the Islands we toured by boat two days before

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
Touring Volcano Mombacho

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
While touring the volcano, we stopped to ride the zip lines!

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Geared up and ready to go!

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Stylin' and profilin'

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"I believe I can fly..."

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
This was a real workout for the abs!

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Mombacho Canopy Tour

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This is really a very exciting experience! We highly recommend it if you get the chance!

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Howler Monkeys in one of the trees our platform was attached to.

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More Howler Monkeys

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We made it out alive!

Granada, Nicaragua Dec 07
Pretty Butterflies

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Oxcarts on the main highway

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Horse carriage for a funeral

Manuel Antonio Park

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
One of the many Iguanas we saw along the way to the coast.

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
This is the crazy one-lane bridge we had to cross in our BIG bus! You can see the rusted beams.

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
This year Christmas was spent in Quepos on the Pacific Coast

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The view of our hotel pool

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
The catamaran tour we took to snorkel and see dolphins!

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Leaving the dock

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Boats in the distance

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More boats

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Fishing

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Coast

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
More boats

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Cliffs

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Relaxing on the catamaran

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Nice view, huh?

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
The birds that led us to the dolphins-they eat the same fish the dolphins eat

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
More cliffs

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Pretty view

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Waves crashing against the rocks

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
The sail of our catamaran

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Relaxing

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
The Captain of our vessel

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
A parasailor in the distance

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
They call this Large Island-they say the diving is good here

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Pretty sky

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
The sun was hiding behind the clouds temporarily-this was taken before we went snorkeling

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Sail boat in the distance

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
This was the moment we all grabbed for our life jackets!

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Crashing waves

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
A view back toward the mountains

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Beautiful Sunset!

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Magnificant!

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
After snorkeling we were served Blue Marlins kabobs and watched the sunset!

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
The view from our hotel room

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
The scuba divers on our tour

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
What a catch! Lobster for dinner anyone?

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Mornings: to enter the park one walks across in these boats. Afternoon: the tide is high & one must be rowed across!

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Spending Christmas in the jungle!

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Our tour guide Andre was very skilled in finding all of the wildlife for us!

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Iguana

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
A termite nest-they make good insect repellant!

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Iguana

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Check out these bats-four of them hanging upside down.

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
A toucan

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
This is called a Jesus Christ lizard because it has the ability to walk on water.

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
The lizard's long back legs and long tail enable it to navigate on top of the water

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Close up of the Jesus Christ lizard

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Manuel Antonio beach

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
More bats

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
A male & female iguana

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
An Iguana sunning himself

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Crab

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Manuel Antonio beach

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Monkeys invading the beach to steal food from visitors bags!

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Scoping out the landscape to see who isn't guarding their bags.

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Isn't he(she?) cute?

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Yes, they were that close!

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Monkey hanging from his tail directly behind Scott's head

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
The highlight of my day-seeing monkeys upclose in the jungle

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Finally, I found some lunch!

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
We found a green leaf frog rarely seen in the daylight

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
This plant buds new leaves that look like exotic flowers

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
We were walking along a trail in the jungle when this fawn came walking by us like we weren't even there!

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
A hummingbird rarely seen sitting still!

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
The Sloth only comes down from the tree once a week

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
A profile only a mother could love!!!

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Beautiful view of the sunset from our hotel room

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Beautiful view of the mountains

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
Wow, just think, God created this!

Our Trip to the Pacific Coast
More beauty of Costa Rica

Coffee2

Coffee2
Walking to Maria's house for Bible Study

Coffee2
Together in Maria's humble home

Coffee2
Cheryl bringing in gifts for the kids

Coffee2
Opening gifts

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Watching the kids open their gifts

Coffee2
The customary "hello" and "goodbye" greeting, complete with the AIR kiss!

Coffee2
Allen with a food bag

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Unloading the bags of food from the van

Coffee2
Alejandro showing off his gift

Coffee2
Saying goodbye to Stephanie

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Glenna made this wreath for Maria. She loved it so much she was crying!

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Jesus opening his gift

Barefoot Final

Barefoot Final
Taste testing the herbal tea. Mike's face says it all!!!

Barefoot Final
Sippin' some herbal tea

Barefoot Final
Yes, we all drank after each other!

Bible Study1

Bible Study1
Giving us a warm welcome at the door!

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Stephanie & her brother Mario in their house

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Maria (in the blue) opens her home every Wed so that we can study the Bible with them.

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Singing praise songs!

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Adolfo (playing guitar), the pastor of a Baptist church near the coffee plantation, spends his time w/us on Wed nights.

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The gang!

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Jesus (Stephanie's other brother)

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Stephanie & Paula (Stephanie's sister).

Visit to Mana

Visit to Mana
Men in the program at Mana

Visit to Mana
The director of Mana showing us one of the items they have created.

Visit to Mana
Trucks for Christmas!

Visit to Mana
Front View

Visit to Mana
Side View

Visit to Mana
Windchime made out of a coconut

Visit to Mana
Showing off his creation

Visit to Mana
Chairs for school classrooms

Visit to Mana
Bending the metal to make the body of the chair

Visit to Mana
One leg of the chair

Visit to Mana
Constructing the chair

Visit to Mana
The finished product!

Visit to Mana
Our host father, Noel (in red), supervises the work for specific projects

Visit to Mana
Henry, Crystal & Sarah teaching the cooking class

Visit to Mana
Reading the Scripture in spanish...way to go Crystal!

Visit to Mana
Sampling the Hobo Stew!

Visit to Mana
Scott & I teaching the budgeting class

Visit to Mana
Fielding questions

Visit to Mana
Sharing the Gospel at the end of the budgeting lesson

Visit to Mana
A view from the front

Ox Cart Parade 2007

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Evangelism Workshop

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Mark demonstrating evangelism with one of the participants

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Asbury - one of the missionaries teaching at the workshop.

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Workshop participants

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"But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him." Hab 2:20

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Some of the missionaries and locals during our break time.

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Tamales Costa Rican style which is much different than Mexican style tamales!

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Eatin' tamales and sippin' coffee. As they say, "when in Rome do as the Romans"!

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These tamales contained meat, yucca and green beans.

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Our team going door-to-door

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Door-to-door

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Witnessing to a man thru the iron gates.

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Some girls playing in the street

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They wanted to show off for us!

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Evanglism debriefing

Thanksgiving '07

Thanksgiving '07
Now that's a meal!!

Thanksgiving '07
Our first Thanksgiving in Costa Rica

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After cleaning our plates, we were stuffed!!

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Celebrating with Jeremy, Crystal & Sarah

Thanksgiving '07
This pilgram's costume also serves as a rain coat!! Faith's family will be serving in Mexico as well!

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Mark and Angie

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Eating in the Chapel at the Institute

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Missionary Kids

Thanksgiving '07
Our favorite baby missionary kid, Mark, was trying to sneak kisses from Ellie all night!

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Praying for the missionaries who'll be leaving in December.

Tastes of Costa Rica

Tastes of Costa Rica
Olga explaining the different fruits in CR

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Tasha & Henry sampling one of the fruits

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Oh yeah, that's sour!!

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Scott sampling one of the sour fruits...look at Angie's expression :)

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Angie grimmaces as she tries one of the fruits

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Olga gives an explanation about one of the vegetables used in stew here called Olla de Carne

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This is one of the vegetables we purchased at the market called Chayote.

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A sampling of the various veggies. Most of them tasted like potatoes and had a similar consistency.

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Scott preparing to peel the tough skin off of this cooked veggie.

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You boil this veggies first, then peel the tough skin off before you eat it!

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Jeremy & Crystal taking a sample to try

Sights of Costa Rica

Sights of Costa Rica
Look, we found Dave Ramsey in a local bookstore!!!

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Concrete soccer field

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This sink hole is about 3 feet deep!

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Items stuff in the holes in the road to keep cars from falling in!

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View from the Language Institute

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The Carneceria (meat store) we pass everyday on our way to barefoot class

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Rotissorie chicken anyone?

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The Admin building at the language institute

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"Gated Community"...

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Pops ice cream has been popular place to get ice cream cones and shakes!!

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"Gated Community"...

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The taxi landing near our house

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Hummingbird at our barefoot class

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Butterflies too!

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Security Guard in front of our house

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I just can't resist the pretty flowers here!!

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We saw this one day walking home from barefoot class

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Gringo Trap!

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More pretty flowers

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Another Gringo Trap!

Caroline's Family

Caroline's Family
Jonathan and Anabel at their church in Guadalupe, CR

Caroline's Family
Giving our testimony with Carlos interpreting for us.

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Congregation

Caroline's Family
Caroline's cousin Carlos with his friend Mia.

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Anabel cooking our lunch

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Supervisors..ha!ha!

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In Anabel's backyard

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Olla de Carne (Stew)

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Ready to eat!

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Lone Star Restaurant

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Posing in front of an Ox Cart at Lone Star

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Lone Star

Party Costa Rican Style

Birthday Party
Opening gifts as soon as they arrived!!

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Ariana opening her gift

Birthday Party
Tacos Ticos

Birthday Party
Diggin' in...

Birthday Party
...and the aftermath!!!

Birthday Party
Diggin in....

Birthday Party
...and it didn't all quite make it in my mouth!

Birthday Party
Noel was the chef for the evening

Birthday Party
Catching Roxana with her mouth full

Birthday Party
Lookin' good Noel!!

Birthday Party
Noel's mother....she's a pro at eating these tacos!

Birthday Party
Avery diggin' in to her taco!

Birthday Party
Lookin' good!!!

Birthday Party
Parker did pretty well not getting the taco on his face, but a lot of the cabbage was on the floor!!

Birthday Party
Ariana's birthday cake

Birthday Party
Spiderman birthday cake for Josue

Birthday Party
Waiting to blow out the candles

Birthday Party
Can we cut the cake now?

Birthday Party
Ariana eating cake with her hands

Birthday Party
Josue showing off one of his birthday presents

Birthday Party
Ariana's new backpack

Birthday Party
Ezra and Avery having a good time!

Birthday Party
Jaxson and Scott - he told his mom that Scott wasn't an adult, he was a big kid. Funny thing is...he was serious!

Birthday Party
Ally and Avery - missionary kids to Peru

Downtown San Jose

Downtown San Jose
Miriam and baby Mark asking for directions to our first stop

Downtown San Jose
Traffic in San Jose

Downtown San Jose
Street vendors

Downtown San Jose
Floral Shop...How pretty!

Downtown San Jose
Democracy Plaza

Downtown San Jose
A homeless man in Democracy Plaza

Downtown San Jose
Plant growing out of the side of the wall!

Downtown San Jose
The Welcome Bus!!

Downtown San Jose
View near the National Museum

Downtown San Jose
A view of the mountains

Downtown San Jose
Sights in San Jose

Downtown San Jose
Miriam, Steve and Soctt collecting information for our homework

Downtown San Jose
Asking for directions to the next stop on our list!

Downtown San Jose
On our way to the National Park

Downtown San Jose
At the National Park

Downtown San Jose
National Park

Downtown San Jose
National Library

Downtown San Jose
Sleeping on the sidewalk

Downtown San Jose
Pretty flowers in Spain Park

Downtown San Jose
Spain Park

Downtown San Jose
Morazan Park

Downtown San Jose
Spain Park

Downtown San Jose
Street Vendor near Morazan Park

Downtown San Jose
Local restaurant in San Jose

Downtown San Jose
Scott ordered steak and got this very small piece of meat. It was good, but it wasn't enough to fill him up!

Downtown San Jose
Sherry's meal was Arroz con Pollo (Chicken & rice).

Downtown San Jose
View of downtown San Jose

Downtown San Jose
On the bus ride home

Host Family

Life in CR
Noel, Roxana, Sherry & Scott

Life in CR
Scott playing with Josue and Ariana

Life in CR
Scott and Josue outside our house

Life in CR
Our living room

Life in CR
Dining room

Life in CR
Kitchen

Life in CR
Our bedroom

Life in CR
Bathroom

Life in CR
Our toilet that flushes toilet paper!!!!

Life in CR
Laundry room

Life in CR
Laundry room 2

Life in CR
Black bean soup (sopa negra). Just add rice and dip your toast in it!

Life in CR
They drop a raw egg in the boiling soup and it fries up. We were teasing Josue telling him it was eyeball soup!

Life in CR
Spaghetti

Life in CR
House church meeting

Barefoot Language 1

Barefoot Language Class
Olga teaching us about the seven provinces of Costa Rica!

Barefoot Language Class
A typical day of conversational spanish!

Barefoot Language Class
Scott practicing his spanish with the security guard of the supermarket near our house.

Barefoot Language Class
Talking with Timilda from Honduras. The objective was to ask Q's about CR facts, so the conversation was really short!

Barefoot Language Class
Scott buying milk from the small convenience store near our house. Look at the bars...you can't go in to shop around!!

Bible Storying Workshop

Bible Storying Workshop
Volunteering

Bible Storying Workshop
Missionaries in training workshop

Bible Storying Workshop
Taking a break during the workshop

Bible Storying Workshop
Small groups putting the Bible Storying method into practice!

Bible Storying Workshop
Training

Bible Storying Workshop
Time of worship

Bible Storying Workshop
Workshop leaders Steve & Paula King

Bible Storying Workshop
IMB Missionaries to Middle & South America

Scott's 37th Birthday

Scott's 37th Birthday
Arroz con Pollo (Chicken & Rice) a typical birthday dish in Costa Rica

Scott's 37th Birthday
Yellow Cake with Chocolate Icing that set up like Magic Shell-it was very tasty!

Scott's 37th Birthday
He doesn't look a day over 29!!

Scott's 37th Birthday
The only candle we had was a "9"...so, 9 times 4 plus 1 equals 37!!

Scott's 37th Birthday
October 27, 2007

Scott's 37th Birthday
Make a wish....

Scott's 37th Birthday
Wow, this cake is really good!

Scott's 37th Birthday
Noel and Roxana

Scott's 37th Birthday
Isaac (made the cake) and Pablo, Noel & Roxana's sons.

Scott's 37th Birthday
Cute plates, huh?

First Day in Costa Rica 2007

First Day in CR 2007
Mark Grumbles, Noel, and John Weaver

First Day in CR 2007
Aztec Soup - Native to Mexico

First Day in CR 2007
Part of our first lunch - Chicken

First Day in CR 2007
Juice from the fruit of Cas

First Day in CR 2007
Dinner with the Weavers at Otero's

First Day in CR 2007
Dinner with the Weavers at Otero's - Cheese Bread

First Day in CR 2007
Dinner with the Weavers at Otero's

First Day in CR 2007
After dinner we stopped by the Cook's house on our way home

First Day in CR 2007
Jan Cook, Angela Dunn, Pamela Weaver, and Tasha's lap...

First Day in CR 2007
...and the rest of Tasha

First Day in CR 2007
Fellowshipping at Jay & Jan Cook's house missionaries to Argentina

Goodbye US, Hello Costa Rica

Goodbye US..Hello Costa Rica
Our last dinner at Ruby Tuesdays

Goodbye US..Hello Costa Rica
Dinner with Angie, Mark & Chelsea

Goodbye US..Hello Costa Rica
We couldn't think of a better meal to have as our last in the States!

Goodbye US..Hello Costa Rica
Of course, we had to save room for chocolate cake and ice cream!!!

Goodbye US..Hello Costa Rica
Traveling light

Goodbye US..Hello Costa Rica
Making our way to the gate!

Goodbye US..Hello Costa Rica
Tickets in hand....We're ready to go!!!

Goodbye US..Hello Costa Rica
Settling in for a four hour flight.

Goodbye US..Hello Costa Rica
Flying over Honduras (see the coast?)

Goodbye US..Hello Costa Rica
Ah! Beautiful Costa Rica

Goodbye US..Hello Costa Rica
Safely on the ground in beautiful Costa Rica!

Goodbye US..Hello Costa Rica
Taking the bus to the Customs Area!

Goodbye US..Hello Costa Rica
Chelsea and me on the bus ride over to Customs.

Goodbye US..Hello Costa Rica
Mark & Angie on the bus to Customs to pick up their lugguage & get thru Immigration.

Goodbye US..Hello Costa Rica
Ah, at last....Immigration!

Farewell Oct 07

Farewell Oct 07
My co-workers at Cerner in KC - Amy & Tally

Farewell Oct 07
My co-workers at Cerner in KC - Amy

Farewell Oct 07
My co-workers at Cerner in KC - Carol, Suzie, Janece, Karen & Mary

Farewell Oct 07
My co-workers at Cerner in KC - Janece & Suzie

Farewell Oct 07
My co-workers at Cerner in KC - Tally

Farewell Oct 07
Friends from Antioch Church in KC

Farewell Oct 07
Hello I'm Evie. I'll be joining Scott & Sherry in Costa Rica in six months along with my parents & big sister!

Farewell Oct 07
A BBQ credit burger....Dave Ramsey style!!! Compliments of FPU chefs Richard & Bette Jo in KC!

Farewell Oct 07
FPU friends in KC, MO.

Farewell Oct 07
This is our buddy Andrew! Isn't he adorable?

Farewell Oct 07
Our great friends Dennis, Mayela, Andrew & Matthew in KC, MO

Farewell Oct 07
Having dinner with Savine & Karen in OKC, OK

Farewell Oct 07
Cookout at the Emersons in OKC

Farewell Oct 07
Our FPU friends in OKC-Gene, Tamra, Will, Brian, Brandie, Jacob, Tracy, Lauren, Aaron, Brandon, Heather & Baby Gavin

Farewell Oct 07
Our MBTS friends in OKC - Cory & Jennifer

Farewell Oct 07
Family in South Texas: Our nephew Andrew...what a cutie!

Farewell Oct 07
Family in South Texas: (l to r) Victoria, Danielle & Caroline

Farewell Oct 07
Family in South Texas: Scott & Andrew

Farewell Oct 07
Family in South Texas: Scott's brother Jeff

Farewell Oct 07
Family in South Texas: Victoria & Danielle

Farewell Oct 07
Lunch at Danielle's school

Farewell Oct 07
Family Dinner in OKC: Jessica, Dylan, Terry & Greg

Farewell Oct 07
Family Dinner in OKC: Ashley, Zachary, Brady, Cameron & Nicholas

Farewell Oct 07
Family Dinner in OKC: Grandma

Farewell Oct 07
Family Dinner in OKC: Uncle Sunny, Grandma & Mom

Farewell Oct 07
Family Dinner in OKC: Grandma Thelma

Farewell Oct 07
Family Dinner in OKC: Brady playing chase

Farewell Oct 07
Family Dinner in OKC: Glen, Zachary, Jennifer & Brady

Farewell Oct 07
Family Dinner in OKC: Cameron, Nicholas, Jennifer, John & Ashley

Washington, DC

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Basilica

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Basilica - Virgin of Guadalupe

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Basilica - Juan Diego seeing the vision of Virgin of Guadalupe

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Basilica

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Flowers at the Basilica - I couldn't resist!!

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Mike at the Metro station

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Elbert at the Metro station

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Mike, Angie & Chelsea at the Metro station

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Mexican Flags in celebration of Mexico Independence Day 9/16/07 - Viva Mexico!!

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Mexican Restaurant

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Steak Tacos

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Chips & Salsa

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Horchata (Very Sweet Rice Milk with Vanilla)

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Pork Tacos

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Chelsea

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Mark & Angie

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Scott

Washington, DC 9-14-07
Little Mexico in Bladensburg, MD

Cultural Worship

FPO
Cultural Worship Service

FPO
Cultural Worship Service Latino Style!!

FPO
Cultural Worship Service

FPO
How I would dress for worship if I was in the Muslim world

FPO
How I would dress for worship if I was in the Muslim world

FPO
Jim presented all the ladies in our Quad with this flower that he made. The petals are made from carved wood.

FPO
Showing off the flower Jim carved out of wood

FPO
Cultural Worship African style!

FPO
Cultural Worship African style!

FPO
Cultural Worship African style!

FPO
Cultural Worship African style!

FPO
Cultural Worship African style! Daniel being thrown in the lion's den. Aren't the little lions cute?

Special Meal Days

FPO
Team Mexico! Jim, Scott, Sherry, Angie and Mark (Mike & Sue taking the pic)

FPO
Bread - North African & Middle Eastern Special Meal Day

FPO
Meatballs - North African & Middle Eastern Special Meal Day

FPO
"Salad" - North African & Middle Eastern Special Meal Day

FPO
North African & Middle Eastern Special Meal Day

FPO
North African & Middle Eastern Special Meal Day

FPO
In keeping with custom, we ate with our hands for this meal!!

FPO
Hungarian Special Meal Day

FPO
Meat for Goulash on Hungarian Special Meal Day-at least they gave us spoons!

FPO
Noodles for Goulash on Hungarian Special Meal Day

FPO
Cabbage - Hungarian Special Meal Day-Thankfully they use utensils when they eat

FPO
Bread for Hungarian Special Meal Day

FPO
FPO Chef

FPO
Asian Special Meal Day - Curried Chicken with Rice

FPO
Asian Special Meal Day

FPO
Cooks preparing for the Asian Special Meal

FPO
Asian Special Meal Day

FPO
Asian Special Meal Day - sauce, tomatoes, peanuts, coconut, raisins, & pineapple

Mexican Food
Not served at FPO...Chilequiles (basically Nachos for breakfast)...Wow!

Mexican Food
Not served here, but s/be..Carne Asada Tacos (they taste better than they look!)

FPO
Steak & Baked Potato! This was served for dinner after a special meal lunch

Life at FPO, Part 1

FPO
Immunization Day - before shots....gotta make the most of it, right?

FPO
Immunization Day - after shots

FPO
Immunization Day

FPO
Immunization Day

FPO
Exercising on a hot day in August!!

FPO
Mike & Sue missionaries to Oaxaca, Mexico receiving their 5 year pin.

FPO
Cultural Worship Service

We've Arrived

We've arrived!!
Scott & Sherry

We've arrived!!
Studying in our Quad

We've arrived!!
Home Sweet Home

We've arrived!!
Living Quarters - Bedroom

We've arrived!!
Living Quarters - Study Area

We've arrived!!
Living Quarters - Kitchen

We've arrived!!
Living Quarters - Laundry Room

On the Road, Part 3

Family & Friends
Our favorite ice cream...Graeter's....Can't get enough of this stuff!

Family & Friends
Scott & Sherry with Brock, Kathy, Griffin & Graeme Dickerson

Family & Friends
Scott & Sherry with Stan and Ruth

Friends & Family
Ruth's doggie

Friends & Family
Doggie #2

Creation Museum
Entrance into Creation Museum 8/3/07

Creation Museum
Bookstore Entrance

Creation Museum
Moving Dinosaur

Creation Museum
Exhibit

Creation Museum
Dinosaur

Creation Museum
Dinosaur Running Exhibit

Creation Museum
Dinosaur

Creation Museum
Finches

Creation Museum
Chameleon

Creation Museum
Poison Dart Frogs

Creation Museum
Garden of Eden Exhibit

Creation Museum
Building Noah's Ark

Creation Museum
Noah's Family on the Ark

Creation Museum
Landscape

Creation Museum
Dinosaur/Landscape

Creation Museum
Landscape

Creation Museum
Lochness Monster

Creation Museum
Landscape

Creation Museum
Geese Landscape

Creation Museum
Landscape

Creation Museum
Dinosaur seen at Entrance of Museum

Creation Museum
Giraffe at Entrance of Museum

Creation Museum
Scott & Sherry w/Dinosaur Head

On the Road, Part 2

Family & Friends
Aunt Betty, Grandma Bonnie, Aunt Becky, Ben (cousin), Uncle Chris & Uncle Barry

Family & Friends
Scott & Sherry with Aunt Betty

Family & Friends
Scott & Sherry with Grandma Bonnnie

Family & Friends
Scott & Sherry with Uncle Barry & Aunt Becky

Family & Friends
Scott with Larry (lifelong friend of Scott's father)

Family & Friends
Mercy Rose having fund with our cooler

Family & Friends
What a cutie pie!!

Family & Friends
Who needs toys when you have a cooler and a camara bag to play with?

Family & Friends
Scott & Sherry with Aunt Becky

Family & Friends
Scott and Ben

Family & Friends
Scott & Sherry with Uncle Chris

Family & Friends
Scott & Grandma Bonnie with cheese curds in hand!

Family & Friends
Sherry and Grandma Bonnie at the dairy farm

Family & Friends
Dairy Farm....where the yummy curds are made!

Family & Friends
Painted Barn near the dairy farm

Family & Friends

Family & Friends
Taylor & Bryce DiGiacinto

Family & Friends
Scott & Sherry with Justin, Dora, Taylor & Bryce DiGiacinto

Family & Friends
Greg, Terry, Jessica, Dylan, Scott & Sherry

Commissioning

Commissioning
Village Baptist Church: Dr. Butler presenting German Bibles to Roger & Linda Rose

Commissioning
Village Baptist Church Commissioning Service

Graduation

MBTS Graduation May 2007
Sherry receiving Ministering Wife Diploma

MBTS Graduation May 2007
Sherry's Diploma

MBTS Graduation May 2007
Scott Picture on screen

MBTS Graduation May 2007
Scott receiving Masters of Divinity Diploma

MBTS Graduation May 2007
Scott's Diploma

MBTS Graduation May 2007
Graduates....yeah!!

MBTS Graduation May 2007
Graduation Kiss!

MBTS Graduation May 2007
Our Family

Mission Appointment Service

Mission Appointment Ceremony
May 9, 2007

Mission Appointment Ceremony
IMB President Jerry Rankin

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Mission Appointment Ceremony
Scott & Sherry under MAC Region (Middle American & Caribbean) Sign

Mission Appointment Ceremony
Scott & Sherry with friends and future missionaries to Mexico Aaron & Gabrielle

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