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July ’20 in Pictures

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Another month of photos coming at ya! July was… hot. Our team spent a lot of time in the villages over the past 4ish weeks as “village school” and modified VBS programs continued. The new school year at Freedom should start come the end of August. Stay tuned for updates on that front!

While we plan on waiting to take our normal month-long furlough until 2021, we’ve made a quick, 2-week trip back to the States to see our families. It’s been good to soak up a little time with them. Thankful!

Enjoy these 31 pictures of our July!

  • Krista delivered sponsor letters in Cabeza de Toro
  • Tree-climbing cutie
  • VBS in small groups
  • Jump!
  • I knelt down to take a picture, and these guys came up. Quick switch to selfie mode!
  • Say cheese!
  • Jeyson
  • Abraam
  • Kite repair
  • Ball-catching fun
  • Leyton and Noah were helpers at a VBS station each week.
  • Lizards galore
  • Hugs from my buddies
  • Little cleaning helper
  • Games with friends. Can you spell any words with this crazy hand I was dealt?
  • Caterpillar Caleigh
  • Saying goodbye to our summer interns!
  • The masked bandits hit the skies
  • Caleigh got creative so she could still suck her fingers and comply with mask regulations
  • Treehouse sillies
  • Dentist trip
  • The kiddos enjoyed a supervised session of shooting with Grandpa
  • Homemade slip ‘n slide
  • Noah
  • Leyton
  • Bonfires are a fave
  • Sweet gifts for the kiddos!
  • The Man. The Griller. The Legend.
  • Love our Awesome Abby!
  • Happy Birthday, Memaw!
  • The Tree House Trio

We’re ready for August!

June ’20 in Pictures

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We’ve crossed the halfway point of 2020! This past month, our team was excited to get back out to the villages as restrictions have begun to lift oh.so.slowly. I personally spent most of my time behind my computer screen as lesson planning continues, but the boys have been in the bateys each morning helping with school – social distancing style, of course. Here’s our June in 30 photos!

  • My 3 masked bandits
  • We finished up MK school a few weeks ago
  • Sad to see Josiah and Sydney head home!
  • Noah and Leyton made maps of Germany in class
  • I’ve been on a cookie kick recently, but very little dough actually makes it into the oven… Oops!
  • Some of our Dominican teachers returned this month!
  • Leyton in Piñones with Jade and Isabel
  • Hermes with his small group in Lima
  • The Ramon Santana crew
  • Kris continues his carpentry project for the new apt. building
  • The Hilgemans’ 10-year-anniversary in the DR happened this month!
  • Becky planned a fantastic potluck for the team!
  • The soup/bread/pasta salad bar was delicious!
  • The littles performed a song they learned in school.
  • We love our Freedom fam!
  • Just one of the new cuties that will join the PK3 class for the new year!
  • This guy’s leaning truck could stand for a trip to the mechanic…
  • Caleigh with her buddy, Bacon
  • Scott had a birthday! Abby cooked her amazing rice and carne, and Rach hosted a fun, at-home escape room!
  • This little one is loving her “nature walks”
  • And this little one visited me one morning in my office!
  • Becky snagged this amazing shot of one of our 4’s, Marilianni
  • Happy Father’s Day!
  • More nature walk fun with Rach
  • Our watchman has some baby bunnies!
  • These kids would kill for an indoor pet.
  • Hoppity!
  • We’ve been putting together some resource packets for our Change a Life Champions!
  • Mixing cookie dough. Training up a child in the way she should go. 🙂
  • Cuddles from Dad while he practices for church.

Looking forward to July!

May ’20 in Pictures

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Is quarantine over yet? We’re missing our students something fierce! Can’t wait ’til we can all be together again. Until then… here’s another month of isolation pictures!

  • Rachel threw a princess party for the little Freedom gals!
  • Rainy trampoline fun
  • We continue to introduce the boys to new board games. They aren’t fans of Carcassonne… yet.
  • New recipes during quarantine!
  • The view from our camp fellowship building. Breezy and peaceful!
  • My Mother’s Day coloring page from Cal!
  • We think Leyton will always be the cuddler and caretaker of the fam.
  • Walking home from church!
  • Proud of our growing girl!
  • Didn’t capture photos, but Leyton and Noah wrote me stories for Mother’s Day! Thanks for helping them, Mia!
  • Eight more apartment units going up!
  • Caleigh learning how to tally in preschool
  • Making germs!
  • Estaylin is growing up! Hard to believe I taught this little man back in Kindergarten!
  • Leyton with his brain project
  • The 4 Amigos
  • What awesome kiddos
  • Everybody has pitched in to teach during this time! Abby with the younger boys.
  • Adding another ground-level classroom that will be the new battery room for now.
  • Jade is awesome! She joined the construction crew for a day to help meet a deadline.
  • Hauling slurry buckets up four levels is a workout!
  • Sweet flower gal
  • Dishes crew
  • Somebody has stolen momma’s cup!
  • We defeated Pandemic – during the pandemic!
  • We’ve loved joining some MD friends for online games!
  • Noah is really enjoying cooking dinner with Mom
  • Pineapples can double as decorations, right?
  • Jade treated us to a coffee drink on a recent Capital trip to pick up some medical results and do some car maintenance.
  • Ang has been making lots of Spanish worksheets and lesson plans for teacher training!

Thanks for your continued prayers and support! Until next time!

April ’20 in Pictures

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Has it been scientifically proven yet that time moves faster the older you get? Either way, April 2020 is in the books – just like that. Have these 30 photos of our month in quarantine!

  • Leyton is the cuddlebug of the fam
  • Freedom work day!
  • Our MK’s got in on the workday action
  • Eliangel’s cheesy grin melts hearts!
  • By the end of the day, the tarantula count was somewhere around 12!
  • One of our bigger friends hiding under the grass piles
  • Learning new board games
  • Katie teaching the littles all about butterflies
  • Reading the Easter story together
  • Cal’s got two handsome bodyguards
  • Jason and Pam fixed us another scrumptious Easter breakfast!
  • Happy Easter!
  • Little Gracie took some selfies for me
  • College pals celebrating Easter on a tropical island during a global pandemic. Times are strange.
  • Coloring in the rock garden
  • Testing Newton’s laws of motion
  • Bubbles!
  • Noah absolutely loved his class on Ezekiel
  • The Hilgemans surprised us with iced coffee one morning. Day made.
  • Just 4 girls trying to do a 2-week grocery run for our families. It took 5 hours!
  • That’s a lot of groceries! Our bag boys graciously posed after all their hard work.
  • Spirograph fun
  • Feeling proud of my first time regrowing green onion
  • Pretty avocado colors.
  • Making cars
  • Swinging sweeties
  • Heather’s getting married! I think our team should’ve won the “Design the Dress” competition with our Corona veil.
  • Testing flight patterns
  • This little guy decided to visit my classroom one afternoon.
  • Mia getting in a workout and helping out the construction crew all at once.

March ’20 in Pictures

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Not sure how to describe this last month – bizarre, perhaps? While some events were unexpected, the last few weeks have also been full of incredible blessings! Here’s our March in 31 pictures!

  • Mery with 3rd graders at their first weeklong camp!
  • Love that these kiddos can dig into God’s Word!
  • Elementary art show!
  • Students judged their classmates’ artwork!
  • Neat to see their creativity coming out.
  • Ms. Lizzy reading to 2nd graders!
  • A 1-day VBS in Lima, where it all began.
  • Miguel and his older sis Miguelina attend school with us!
  • Proud pre-schoolers!
  • Becky captured these fun colors/textures on the construction site.
  • Everybody loves “Baby Ana” who is growing up fast!
  • A team did some landscaping around the apartments a few months ago! So nice to come home to this!
  • Ang continued to spend mornings with teaching staff in training sessions.
  • Olga, Lillian, Marielys, and Jane working on an assignment.
  • On the way home from the store, we saw these guys putting up a mosaic.
  • Bummer – one of Mom’s new plates broke!
  • All smiles as we head over for our rabies vaccinations!
  • Waiting in line at the local hospital
  • Despite Scott’s face, this lady did an excellent job!
  • Noah likes to take a turn at drawing – here’s his attempt at the Celtics’ logo
  • There are just some strange creatures around here.
  • Noah working on his homework packet now that school’s out
  • Our kids are really beginning to enjoy board games! Yay!
  • Learning about gravity with Ms. Rachel!
  • Leyton and Mo enjoying some dino crafting!
  • Noah’s favorite class of “new school” is Ezekiel!
  • Caleigh-gal is loving her new routine!
  • One of our sweet cleaning ladies
  • Learning lots!
  • So happy to have our intern Sydney with us!
  • Say cheese!

February ’20 in Pictures

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One sixth of the way through 2020! Here’s a small peek into our February!

  • Happy 8th birthday to this big guy!
  • Our newly completed fellowship building/camp area
  • A few of our sweet teachers in an AM training session
  • Happy Dominican Independence Day!
  • Headed out for a march/parade!
  • Onlookers
  • Marching through Ramon Santana
  • Teams are helping us build the next apt. building
  • Happy birthday, Jade!
  • Love having this college pal around to help pave the way for our new camp program!
  • Weeklong camps this spring – each Friday, the campers were prayed for in chapel.
  • Rachel and I have been jogging a bit – this little friend put a spring in my step one afternoon!
  • Cherries on campus!
  • Always good to get out to the villages.
  • Scott talking to Memena, Yuleisy’s mom
  • Perfect smile
  • A little Daddy time
  • A few of us went out for a Saturday AM run
  • Exploring near campus
  • The Carmel team blessed us again with COOKIES!
  • Proud of his homemade toys
  • Don’t know this little gal (yet), but she was awful sad when no one picked her up for a walk around Lima. We remedied that, though!
  • Daydreaming
  • The back of a house in Lima
  • Weigh station
  • Krista is always hard at work delivering letters to kiddos from their sponsors!
  • Mery has worked with us since we were doing school in the villages
  • Some of the smarties in 4th grade!
  • Caleigh got ahold of my phone in one of our English classes!
  • Selfie time

Thanks for continuing to pray for us! See ya in a month!

January ‘20 in Pictures

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While these photos certainly don’t capture everything, here are 31 pictures from our January in the DR!

  • Starting off Jan. 1 with a rainbow on the way home!
  • Jacob and Mia made the big move!
  • Teams always begin their week here with a tour
  • Field Day fun!
  • Caught this grin from shy Cha-cha
  • Water slide giggles!
  • Leyton smiles
  • Can’t be too serious on Field Day!
  • Moises was one of our Field Day helpers!
  • Good morning, Freedom!
  • Kindergarten helpers!
  • Gabe captured this drone shot of the camp fellowship building
  • A cookout without ice cream? Never!
  • Our teams start each morning in prayer
  • Chapel songs!
  • Flat tires happen
  • Friends to the rescue!
  • Our fantastic interns!
  • A front view of Yuleisy’s new house!
  • The back
  • Careful, Yohan! That ladder looks a little sketchy!
  • Painting pals
  • I will never not take a rainbow picture here.
  • Teams with our cutie pies
  • One of our Dominican teachers made homemade domplines ahogado en queso!
  • Rain.bow.
  • Miss Jane giving a mock lesson in a training session
  • Amy and Gabriela in a math center
  • Where the learning happens!
  • My two little afternoon work buddies
  • Birthday hugs from both of my wonderful daughters. 🙂

November and December 2016 in Pictures

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Another end to another year! How I pray that the Lord was glorified. I hope that our family looks to Him for strength and joy as 2017 begins.

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Our students visited the zoo this year for their field trip!
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Checking out the flamingos
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Our team enjoyed another Thanksgiving together as a group
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Thanksgiving getaway! A great time of fellowship for the weekend.
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We’ve been trying to battle a serious mold problem! Gross!
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We finally took our new desks and cabinets apart and painted all the areas where the pressed wood was exposed. Yeah, it’s humid here.
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Miss Rachel and Miss Emma planned a 100th Day of School party for their kindergarten cuties
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Silly Jesús with his 100 Days crown
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We had fun putting our tree up a little earlier than usual this year!
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Caleigh tested out our new LED lights for us
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Scott confirmed that he was NOT pregnant. He battled some scary abdominal pain for a few days!
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We thought for a moment that we may have had a case of appendicitis! Caleigh helped take care of Dad while he was on the mend.
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God is so good. Katie brought us dinner one evening while Scott was sick!
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Parent-teacher conferences in the villages!
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One of our families in  Cabeza de Toro made a Christmas tree out of green pop bottles!
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Our two-night Christmas program was a success!
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Noah helped his teacher Miss Mery pass out papers to the parents one evening at the program
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Our Freedom team! So thankful for these people!
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Staff Christmas party fun!
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A church back home sweetly sent our family an entire suitcase of goodies for Christmas!
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So blessed!
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We loved spending some time with Memaw and Pepaw over Christmas!
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Piñones cuties!