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VBS
Vacation Bible School continued on day 3 in Tita’s school. The kids were LOVING our team and our team was LOVING the kids. It was awesome to watch them play, teach, and love the kids. The previous day, the kids made a cross necklace out of beads. On this 2nd day of VBS, the students made the “salvation bracelet” with the 5 colors representing the different aspects of the Christian faith.
- Yellow/Gold: God in Heaven on streets of Gold. He is perfect pure and holy
- Black: We are sinful and separated from him.
- Red: Christ (God’s son) lived a sinless life & became our atoning sacrifice
- White: This cleans/purifies our heart and allows us to one day spend eternity with our Savior
- Green: Like a seed is planted in the ground, God’s love grows in our heart as we grow in faith until we are united with Him in heaven
Construction
We actually met with the president of the POA! Really. Some other residents did not approve of our construction methods because it was foreign to them. They wanted us to use sheet metal and rods to hold the soil back. We wanted to build a weeping retaining wall with water redirected away to decrease pressure on the wall. The whole grown was going to go. Sheet metal would not hold. We were very blessed to have a landscape architect and two other guys with incredible construction experience! We just continued to lay the foundation and build the wall.
Home Visits
During lunch, the VBS team got to do home visits on the “Other Side”. This was our first outreach to the other side and laid the foundation for the next two days!
They visited the home of two boys who have been living alone for over a month so far while their mom was at the hospital! They had no food and were living in and on their trash. The team brought them some food and visited with them, invited them to the “Other Side” VBS. Then they prayed for the boys and their mom.
They also met with a lady who make Tortillas and sells them to others in the area. They prayed for her as well.
More days coming soon! Thanks for reading!
