Plabras de espanol

basketball terms
Quieres jugar? - Do you want to play?
pasa -pass
bola- ball
ganas! - you win
ganamos! -we win
quidado!-watch out
rules- reglas
defensia- defense
equipo- team
bueno- good

Common words
buenos dias- good moring (or good day)
buenos tardes- good afternoon
buenos noche- good night
Inglesia- Church
amigo- friend
comida- food
cena-dinner
almuerzo- lunch
desayuno-breakfast
frio-cold
calor-hot
bano-bathroom
tienes- you have
hermana-sister
hermano-brother
Padre-Father
Madre-Mother
abula-grandmother
abulo-grandfather
primo-cousin
tia/0-aunt/uncle
Estados Unidos-United States
avion- airplane
maleta-suitcase
dinero-money
bolsa- bag
casa-house

common phrases
Tengo hambre- I am hungry
Tengo sed- I am thirsty
No me gusta- I don't like
quiero- I want
Donde esta el bano? Where is the bathroom?
necesito- I need
la sopa es delicioso!- the soup is delicious!
No mas sopa por favor. Me estamago es gordo y quiero ser delgado. -no more soup please. my stomach is fat and I want to be skinny. {compliments of Beth}
Tu hermano es como un pollo gordo sin cabeza- your brother resembles a fat chicken without a head:) - that's just an added bonus. Don't use it. :)
Also never use a "your mom joke" in spanish- it is very insulting to even use the phrase "your mom" or "tu madre" in spanish, it is comperable to our worst swear words in english:)

Letter from the Boyds

Here is an e-mail from Jon Boyd with more information concerning the trip:

I´ll give you as much as I know at this point. We are going to be hosting a basketball camp here in Chía, which is a bed-room community of Bogotá. Bogotá has about 7 million people, while Chía has about 100,000. We´ve been working at La Iglesia Cristiana Bautista la Gracia here in Chía for two years. It´s had a lot of up-and-downs, and evangelism has been sparse because of a number of church problems in the past. Fortunately the ship has turned around and we´re starting to see love, unity, growth, etc.

The plan is that the team will work together with James Oilar, a missionary with Fellowship of Christian Athletes, on the basketball side, and our church will be in charge of the spiritual aspect and the follow-up of the kids that come to camp. You´ll be involved in a 9-12 session in the morning with one group of kids, and another from 1-4 p.m. The camp will be held in the middle of Chía. Pastor José Alonso will also be helping us throughout the week (he speaks English perfectly).

Other than that, I´m thinking that we might do one youth activity of some kind (of you guys have great ideas let me know). We´re also planning to visit two interesting sites here in Colombia (Monserrate from which you can see all of Bogotá, and the salt cathedral).

The Alonsos can host some of you, we can host others, and a Colombian family will host the rest (at least that´s the plan at this point).

Keep in touch,

Jon

Jon and Holly's website

A plan to reach them

You may have heard bits and pieces of a plan to go on a short term missions trip to Colombia...

While there is still much uncertain on the details of the trip the structures are starting to come together. The plan is to reach South American teens by running a week long basketball camp. We will be working with the Boyds who are missionaries in Chaí, Colombia. (CBC is their sending church) They recently moved to Chaí area where they also have a Church. As you can see dates for trip run into the following Sunday after the camp. This is in hopes that Basketball camp will spark an intrest in these teens lives and that they will also attend the Church with us. :)

Please pray with us as we are still comming up with the team and details for this mission.