Tuesday February 16, 2016
Maria Hall writes:
The day started with an early morning breakfast at 7:30 am. After another beautiful and plentiful meal, Jill’s family group led our morning devotion. Naomi started the devotion by asking everybody to pass the peace. Following the peace with a verse from Deuteronomy 15:7-11, which sparked a conversation about the meaning of poor in the bible vs. how we define money in terms of income and resources. Rev. Joseph left us with the object to reflect and focus on what the community of Sacaba has, instead of what we believe they lack. After spraying enough bug spray and sunscreen, (which didn’t help and still burned) we headed towards the bus that brings us to the site.
The ride is about 40 minutes but we have such an amazing opportunity to see the growing and always expanding community of Cochabamba. Once at the site, we send prayers with the local construction workers for safety during the day’s activities. We started working again with rebar, the same one the girls helped straighten the day before. At first, the language barrier was difficult to overcome very much when figuring out how to tie the rebar together but after watching the man about multiple times, everybody started to pick it up fairly quickly. We took water break and got back to work. Next talk was to put up the rebar we just tied. The bust arrived around 12;30 pm to take us back to the hostel for lunch.
After our delicious lunch and re- application of sunscreen we headed back to the site for VBS and more construction work. Chris’ family ran VBS and taught the story of creation. Jill’s group worked on the rebar and solidifying the rebar with cement. After 4:30 pm we headed to Luz de Vida Church to purchase some of their hand crafts to support their ministry. I purchased a fit for my mother that I hope she likes. Once back at the hostel, everyone took a quick shower and headed to the main building for another wonderful dinner before a worship service at the Lava Lava Church.
Around 7:30 pm we headed back to Lava Lava for a worship service. The service was beautiful with lots of music and speaking in English, Spanish, and Quechua (the local language). Rev. Ewoodzie gave a great sermon about the common thread of Christianity that binds all of us, despite our differences of language, location, and culture. The serviced ended around 9:45 pm. Once back at the hostel we had a quick debriefing about the day’s activities and the plans for tomorrow. Everyone is very tired so we all went to bed instantly.
Today I saw the power of faith in bringing different people together and it was a sight to be hold to say the least.
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