Hello Family and Friends!
We have come to the end of our first day of VBS and Construction. VBS was exciting, fun and very tiring. With many of us not knowing Spanish very well, we did a lot of hand gestures and used a lot of sounds to communicate. There were 55 children today and we expect to have several more tomorrow. Taylor and Ragan Trotter are working with the games and doing a great job. Each session they say gets easier, so tomorrow should go much better. They are working with another Mexican youth who translates for them when they need the help. Marilyn is helping in the craft room, Bethany, Kelsey and Lori are working as helpers with in school age groups and Jennifer and Jessica are helping with the preschoolers. Suzanne worked in the snack area. Crystal has been asked to step in as a “lead” teacher or guide for one of the groups. Colin was a spy today in a skit for the Bible lesson of Rahab and the spies. Travis and Don helped out getting things set up (Don mostly with snacks and Travis just all over). The other men (Bob, Glenn, Mark, Duncan & Scott)went to Cumbres del Rey for their major renovations of taking an empty space and turning it into 5 different rooms. They are working with another group from the States.
We were not expecting to have much time to just sit and “relax” but after lunch we found that it didn’t take that much time to empty out one of the storage rooms. So by 3.30 the ladies came back to the hotel while the men (Travis, Don, Taylor and Colin) stayed to help build some shelves and set up for the Bible story tomorrow (Crossing the Jordan River).
Please continue in your prayers for us. Here’s how:
- Pray that we will take advantage of the down time and talk to our Mexican friends.
- Pray that we will see what it is that God has for us to learn each day.
- Pray that we will not get frustrated when we can’t say the things we want to say because of the language barriers or when we aren’t able accomplish what we thought we would.
- Pray for the health of our team. We are all doing well but some struggling with allergies and headaches, etc. Not severe and very manageable but very challenging too.
- Pray for Travis and I to be able to lead the team members and guide them to look to Jesus.
Thank you for all your support and continued prayers.
Serving Christ,
Crystal (for the whole team)
