Day 1 of Work

 Good evening to those following our journey.  Today was filled with lots of work and many connections.  The VBS and construction teams both worked in Batey 106 today.  The VBS team had approximately 60 children with them for the day.  The construction team did lots of sifting sand that was used in a stucco coating for the house and loading wheelbarrows to build up the floor in one of the rooms of the house.  Adeline led our lunchtime devotion.

Our translators did a great job of helping us to communicate with those we met while other communication was done with our own language skills and "doing our best" approach.  After getting back from work we cleaned up quickly and went to the Jumbo, which is a large store that sells just about anything you could want.  

Dinner was another amazing meal and our team had a great team meeting.  Everyone is now playing games or catching up on showering.  We know that we will be working on two different sites tomorrow but will be able to have lunch together.  

Here are our God sightings for today:

Liam: group of kids playing basketball with them, saw batey kids being patient with us

Zachary: bus didn't break down

Elyse: kids being patient

Lincoln: batey kids helping with construction projects

 Adeline: kids sharing about their lives with us 

Annalise: kids fighting over tools in order to help out, able to communicate through Lincoln, got to meet the cat

Meara: George was good with the kids and awesome at Spanish. His communication skills and he is awesome and we are blessed 

Chad: the translators, talented and committed 

Daleen: Lincoln and Luke being kind and firm through interactions with difficult kids, the eagerness of kids to come into the church

Sami: connecting with teenagers and Frendy

Mckenzie: the baby chicken and the 4 y.o. girl, cloudiness in the morning 

Megan: everyone on the VBS team

Gretchen: VBS

That's all for tonight.  Pictures continue to be posted on the SMBC Youth Ministry Facebook page.  I haven't had time yet to jump them to the Flickr page but will at some point.  

Pray for rest and recovery each night.