Finally........Costa Rica Pictures!
 

The place that we went to work in Costa Rica is called the Abraham Project. It has five facets: Day care, Church, Orphanage, Adult classes, and Community services (volunteer doctors, dentists, etc.). It started in 1997 with a Pastor and 7 praying women with a total of $20. They literally prayed in all the materials to build the project in the middle of a slum, or squatters' village. All the floor tile, glass, wood and everything has been donated; it's totally a project of faith.

There is a glass company in Costa Rica that ships big panes of glass all over the world. When the wood crates came back broken up, they were discarding them. The Abraham Project asked if they could have them instead. So they get the scrap crates and that's what all the buildings, furniture, fencing, and everything is build from. It's amazing when you see it! The women on our team spent a week pulling nails and staples from the scrap wood pieces, and then they are planed, sanded and cut to size. The men were actually doing construction on the newest building.

It was such a joy to see the third orphanage building completed and full of kids - that we were working on last year! It's turned out beautiful!!

They have a story about the wood, comparing it to the children they take in. The wood pieces are scraps that are about to be tossed on the garbage heap, full of nails and in a mess. We take them and pull out the things that need to be removed and then they are able to be formed into something beautiful. That's what they do with the children that were about to be thrown on the garbage heaps of society. The story always makes me weep!

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Not quite sure why some of these pictures are HUGE and some are small; it's the first time I've ever done PhotoBucket!!! Sorry.

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(Darci's husband preaching in Spanish)

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(Feeding the poor)

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(This house is literally sitting on a foundation of oil barrels!!)

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Wow, amazing story Sherri. Love the pics, hard to believe those buildings were built from scraps.