This is Manuel Antonio in Costa Rica, just one of the beautiful beaches here & we are very sad to leave this beautiful country. Not only for that reason, but the wonderful friends we have made. Of course, most of them are leaving, but there are many who have come in the last 3 months & we must say goodbye to them. This is the last week; Graduation is Friday. Saturday we leave for Guatemala so we are in the midst of some utter chaos in packing. Of course, we have more than we imagined we could accumulate in 14 months here.
New address is: Keith & Glenna Bartley
Apartado 1135
01901 Guatemala City,
Guatemala
Central America

Thought you might want to see all our M's in Costa Rica. The Lord has blessed us with a wonderful family. We had a great time with Calvin & Deborah Morris this weekend. They gave us much encouragement & good teaching. We are down to only 2 more weeks here. It will be somewhat difficult to leave this crew that we have been with for the last year and a half.

Man in Tierra Blanca.

I cannot help but be fascinated with the flowers here; they just grow wild & they are soooo beautiful. This reminds me of the verse in the Bible Luke 12:27 "Consider the lilies, how they grow, they neither toil nor spin & yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." Jesus said this & added - "if then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field & tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, of you of little faith?" Can you imagine!

Thought you might be interested in seeing the typical dress for Catholic First Communion. Average age is around 8 years old; and they celebrate all day long, it is quite an event here; we see many.

Pastor Oscar on the left & Francisco are the ones we worked with in Bocaron & Tierra Blanca; they have such a heart to take the gospel to the people there; it was wonderful to be with them & I wish you could have heard Francisco's testimony - abandoned in a field when he was 2 years old & a policeman heard him crying; took him to an orphanage; he ran away when he was 7 & was on the streets until 17; a pastor's wife began to minister to him & now he has such a heart to minister to others. Pray for them.

We were privileged to go with a team from Park View Bapt in Alabama to evangelize in Tierra Blanca de Cartago to help with translating from Friday morning through Monday the 2-5 of November. This is our first experience at translating for a team. Both Keith and I learned a great deal as well as having a great time and making new friends from the US and Costa Rica.