Tuesday's adventures.

This morning we loaded up in the van and headed out for the jobsite. We noticed that our driver had among other things, a postcard hanging from his rearview mirror that read “Drive it like you stole it.” Very fitting for Sarafel (our driver); he definitely doesn’t waste time on the road! It takes special skill to drive the streets around here and we are glad Sarafel is handling that for us.

Things were a bit calmer at the work site today with just the Harvest team working and all the hellos and goodbyes from yesterday behind us. We spent the morning working on the wall and interacting some with the kids when they were on break or recess. Most of the kids can speak some English so we can ask each other questions and learn a bit about them.

We ate a quick lunch and headed over to Sammy’s church in the Cora district a couple of blocks from the school to serve lunch to a group of 50-60 kids. For many of these kids, it will be their only meal of the day. We call it Sammy’s church only because our main contact at the church is named Sammy. Just last night we had the opportunity to hear from Sammy and Pastor Antenue about their stories and what they are doing in and through their church. This helped give us some background about what challenges they are facing as well as what type of circumstances the kids are growing up in.

Now we have seen unending poverty on this trip, but walking through this part of town on our way to the church was witnessing a whole other level of extreme poverty. What a place – like nothing I’ve seen before. Yet, it was a great time at the church serving the kids lunch and chatting with them to and fro. This church is the only Christian church in this neighborhood of 130,000 and most definitely shining the light of Christ in a dark and hopeless place. Please pray for them.

We had to wrap up work early today because of the rain that cruised in around 2:30. We were bummed out by this but plan on getting to the jobsite earlier tomorrow to try and get a little more time in.

For dinner tonight we wandered over to a local establishment called Sister’s Café (I think). We went a little crazy with the bottled sodas and wracked up a tab for 17 pops! I guess we were thirsty. We are looking forward to tomorrow and seeing God work. Peace-

-Ryan