SCENIC PICS FROM BEAUTIFUL GUATEMALA--OPERATION SHOEBOX DECEMBER 2008!!

Operation Christmas Shoebox Outreach Missions Trip December 2008--It was spring in Guatemala with nighttime temps in the 40's and daytime temps in the 70's!! This made for an adjustment coming home to Iowa snow, ice and cold!! Guatemala sports some fanctastic scenery with beautiful mountains and active volcanoes!! This is a beautiful country with beautiful people and beautiful weather!! Our trip was during the dry season--Geauemala has six months of rain and six months of dry season. Some of the mountain roads we traveled were exciting enough during the dry season--one wonders how treacherous they are in the rainy season!!

OPERATION CHRISTMAS SHOEBOX--GUATEMALA DECEMBER 2008!!

OPERATION SHOEBOX--GUATEMALA!! December 5-13, 2008. Pictured are kids and families at one of our outreaches--these are native indians located at 10,000 feet elevation.

Some 700 children and their families from seven villiages came to sing Christmas caroles, watch our Christmas drama and recieve a Christmas Shoeboxes filled with toys, clothes, writing material, soap, etc. During the week 2,039 children and adults recieved Christ as Lord and Savior and recieved the best gift we had to share on our outreach!! Operation Shoebox is a ministry of the Marion Zirkle Children's Foundation and Living Water Teaching. Our 11 member missions team from Eagle Vision Church in Des Moines, Iowa along with missions members from Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Ohio, Californina and South Dakota spent the week packing shoeboxes and distributing them to some 4,500 children during various outreachs at orphanages, hospitals, schools and communities. Our ministry team was based at the Living Water Teaching Campus in Xela, Guatemala during our trip which is at 8,000 feet elevation.

CIRCUITRIDERS COWBOYS FOR CHRIST--IOWA STATE FAIR PARADE ENTRY!!

Pictured above is the Circuitriders Cowboys For Christ entry in the August 6, 2008 Iowa State Fair Parade. Circuitriders Cowboys For Christ is a outreach of Fivefold Ministries International. The entry featured Texas Longhorn Tropy Steers owned by FFMI President Kent Krutsinger--the steer on the left is Special K Rio Lobo and the steer on the right is Special K Woodrow who sports a whopping 97 1/2" Horns tip to tip!! God does awesome work!! The top picture is the

Pioneer Club from Eagle Vision Church where Woodrow and Co stopped by for a visit following the State Fair Parade.