This morning we attended the church service at Salama First Baptist. On the way to the church we stopped by the children’s home to pick up the 4 children and the adults. Two of the children sat with me. One was an 8 year old boy and a 4 year old girl. The boy, Estuardo, was doing his best to communicate with me. He was showing me his Bible and then I showed him mine. He flipped through it and said ‘Wow’ because it was big and pink. He then said ‘cantar?” Since I did not know what he was saying, he sang ‘holy, holy, holy’. He was telling me that he was going to sing at church. It was amazing to know that the different cultures, languages & location did not change the fact that we were all worshiping the same God. Listening to the pastor and others sing songs of praise in Spanish was not a barrier to feel how God was moving. His presence was there and it was an experience like no other. During the service birds were flying through the building and a skinny, mangy dog ran through the building but none of these things interfered with their worship. The pastor was so appreciative of our group coming to work at the children’s home and in the village of Pacux. Gratitude was flowing out of him.
After church, we headed out to Pacux. The drive is a little over an hour. I saw a lot of damage from the landslide that was much worse than yesterday. Our bus had to drive all over the road at times because of the giant rocks in the road. There were a few spots that part of the road was gone. We thought we were not going to be able to make it because the road was almost fully covered from a landslide. There was just enough room for our bus to make it through.
In Pacux, we saw the wonderful children. It was so exciting to see some of the same faces from last year. A few of them remembered me & gave me some of the biggest hugs ever. We took about over 100 kiddos to the park and made a craft that represented the verse John 3:16. We want them to know that God loves them. Once it began to rain on us, we had to rush to the busses to get on the road. The rain causes the landslides. We had to get through the mountains before it got worse. Luckily it only rained for about 30 minutes.
Thank you for your prayers and your emails & texts. I cannot tell you how much it means to me.
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