Dear family & friends,  Thank you for your prayers for the special Christian Heritage Academy group that met us at the border on May 27th.  They spent ten great days with us in all including two days of travel time plus traveling out to Wirichiqui Mountain. There were 25 of them and twelve or more of us including other missionaries and friends from WY and people from our church!

Praise God With Us For:

1. Two days were spent on the new school property, painting the last coat.  The town workers finished the large cement pad between the two buildings and now we begin the tile in the bathrooms and fixtures.  The group also painted in pastor Antonio's house and helped Josh Rose put the tin on his roof.

2. Some of us went right out to the mountain ahead of the rest to begin work on the walls for the construction of the airplane hangar.  My what a big job that was! The Indians had most of the about 3,000 adobes ready and Steve Barbour from WY and Josh Bullard, who is the director of the school drove the tractor every day with loads of brick to the building site. Steve filled in the airstrip with the dozer and our pilot friend, Mark was happy with the smoother landing!  The guys along with Ellis McMath of BTM mission cut down more trees too!  There was a welding crew who worked long hours too!

3. The Lord answered prayer with a good supply of the spring water, the kids were very thankful that they could at least hose off all the mud splats!  There was a great group of guys welding the metal trusses, 52 feet long, and they would come back to the cabin every 

day totally black! Ed could hardly believe that the walls are up and the trusses are built!

4. We can't thank this great group from OK and WY and NM enough for their willingness to come and work together in the heat and the dirt and accomplish in a little time what would take us much time to finish!    They each gave financially to the school project, what a blessing! May their work be rewarded in this life and in our heavenly home! 

Thank you for your part in this ministry of the Copper Canyon!                                                     Much Love in Christ, Ed & Debby Capps

Its hard to keep this updated, when we are not actively involved planning or on a work team, so I apologize to those that follow this blog.
The January trip never materialized, as Ed and Debby were busy with to many other things to really fit in team at that time. My hope was that Ed might get to work on his airplane during that time, but that wasn't possible either.
Wonderful things have been happening since last summer. Josh & Candice Rose have decided to stay long term in Guachochi, so that has been a huge blessing to the Capps. The Roses have their own ministry, and have been a tremendous asset to the new school project......impossible to document all the hours of time Josh has dedicated to that project, besides outreach to adjoining towns, and spending time at the 'Ranch' working with Joel.
The Oklahoma group are planning a trip to Guachochi, May 28-June 6. At this time, myself, Stephanie, Chloe & her brother Luke are planning to go along with them. We will be spending time at the Ranch, building a hanger for aircraft.

Just about a month ago, Ed and a fellow pilot flew in and landed on the runway we built a few years ago. Very exciting to know it's useable and to see that first plane sitting on the strip... Wow!!!
.... now to just get Eds plane finished so he can have it out there too.

Talked with Ed;  his wounds from the motorcycle accident are finally healed enough that he can get out and do things.....thank you for those that have prayed for him! Temps have been very hot in El Paso, and today the air conditioner fan motor has quit working on their home (travel trailer). Ed is working on repairs.
I see for whatever reason that the blog keeps deleting videos.....I don't understand what is happening, but will try to repost from a computer instead of the iPad.
Work continues in Guachochi, so if anyone is interested in helping financially or physically,  please contact me.....planning is in progress for fall of 2013 or 1st week of Jan 2014 for a work team!

( From The Christian Heritage Academy Facebook page)
Following a school year where "change" was the new normal, what else could you expect from a mission trip but the same. This year's trip was full of changes such as: smaller group of CHA kids, picking up 2 non-CHA kids from New Mexico, no canyon, spending the whole time in Guachochi at the school property, and finding more time to build relationships with our brothers and sisters in Christ from the local church there in Guachochi.

Our work consisted primarily of finishing jobs that others had started. We had the privilege last year of seeing the first set of classrooms being built on the new school property. Between last years trip and this years, 2 other groups from the US came out to help further the work by finishing out the classrooms we began and by building 3 new classrooms, a storage area, and the foundations for the bathrooms. Our task was to take those classrooms to a near completed stage. In our week in Guachochi we cut out the windows and doors, mounted the metal windows and doors, put up dry-wall and insulation in all 3 rooms, taped and mudded the drywall, installed tar-paper in prep for metal siding on the outside of the building, textured the interior walls and painted 2 of the 3 classrooms. We also helped start the roofing structure on the bathrooms and completed the exterior cinder-block work. For such a small group of students, the work that was done was excellent and far exceeded what was expected.

Our students had a wonderful time this year really getting to know the local people. Everyday we had at least one or two workers that students worked along side and we enjoyed fellowshipping together through Sunday School, meals at the church and school, soccer games, and sharing testimonies. Both our students and the local believers there were able to have a tangible understanding of what it means to all belong to the same body of Christ.

From what I have gathered from new comers as well as those who have been on this trip multiple times, this may well be considered to be one the of the best we have ever had! God is good.

 These two videos are some of the school students singing in Spanish and English.....what an amazing group, and you can see the joy and fun they have!

 Mrs. Leslie and her girls.....Oh yeah, with Stephanie, Candice, Debby, and Marlen as the other adults/kids!

We were privileged to stop work early one afternoon early and the group went to Sinforosa, a popular overlook at the edge of the 'Canyon'. Chloe and Blanca are perching on the railing of some 8000' + of elevation difference out in front of them.....what a beautiful sight....the scenery and the young ladies! :)

It was very dry in Guachochi, as they have been in a drought condition. The rainy season starts in July thru September, but abnormally dry weather has also prevailed the rest of the year. Everywhere we walked outside caused little puffs of dust, and of course was constantly 'tracked' in on the floor. Constant sweeping and cleaning are a must to keep ahead of it!
Ed has 'imported' these two pieces of equipment (payed the tax 'duty fee' ) to bring them into Mexico. Here he was moving this dirt to fill in between the two classroom buildings. The area in this picture will become a playground...dirt rocks and all. Different than our playgrounds 'Stateside'.

Enough slope in the property necessitated building a deep foundation on this end of the newest building. Basements are not the norm here because of all the rock that has to be removed (usually by hand with a pick, shovel and wheelbarrow), so it was nice to see they could utilize this space for and extra room. It should be cozy...cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

A fence is required by the government to 'identify' all properties and was needed for security of the school. Most property lines are established with rocks walls. You can see some of those in previous pictures that have been posted in recent trips on this blog.
It was going to cost some $50,000.00 to build this, but the local government is putting in the majority of the fence, only requiring the school to install the lane portion coming into the property. It is quite the process in building this fence, all by hand labor, mixing, carrying the cement in 5 gallon buckets, pouring the foundation, then putting up forms for the small wall, and then again; mixing, wheel-borrowing and pouring by hand. This is a huge blessing for the school....I think the 'powers to be' realize the value of the school and the teachings that come forth from the walls. 

Looking in from the West property line at the property.
The two classroom building on the left, what was going to be a home in the middle (now going to be administration and living quarters), and a house on the right. I believe the Pastor of the Church/Head Master of the School, Antonio and his family will eventually live in the house.

Home now, and partially caught up on things......including sleep. I fully intended to get pictures uploaded right away, but found our phone line had been cut just recently..... so once again, no internet. The phone company did get it repaired yesterday, so maybe we'll eventually get these posted.
Ed is progressing very well on his recovery from the motorcycle accident, with his nursemate, Debby, being his bandage changer and chauffeur.
Stephanie and Chloe have managed to be accepted back into the fold at the Haas residence, and hopefully they can do some posting now that they are home too.
I'm writing this in the morning, with a full day of work and projects. I will do some picture updating tonight.  

Hello everyone, this is Chloe! 

This trip has gone by so fast! Too fast actually. I was not ready to leave Guachochi when we did. I just wanted to stay all summer. Anyway, this trip was amazing! I had a blast, but best of all, God worked alot in my heart. I'm so thankful for everything He has done for me. I'm very blessed to be able to go on this trip year after year and I can't imagine stopping! I had a ton of fun and I can't believe it's already over, but can't wait for next time!