Saturday, March 30, in we had a devotional in the morning,
and then split into what we would be doing for the day. Most of the guys went
to work on projects, while the girls and a few of the guys organized day camps
for the kids. There were some of us who stayed back to work on a skit for
Easter first. We practiced it in the church a couple of times before heading
off to where we would be working. Oh yah, so our team of almost 50 people slept
in the church, the girls sleeping in the sanctuary, and the guys in the back
room, all of us on the hard cold floor. But, it was better than the way it was
the year before, because now they had the doors and windows on. J
One
work project was wielding together a fence to go around the church grounds. Another
project was buiding a wall hear the house on the one side that didn’t have one.
Then the third work project was building a few stairs leading to the bridge
that goes to the church. I was in the day camps with the kids. We played games
with them, such as soccer, and had activities like drawing with chalk, blowing
up balloon animals, and coloring pictures. After lunch when the kids gathered
again, we had a Bible lesson, and then we played group games including elbow
tag and a game like duck duck goose, only there were two people running around
the outside. In the evening when the work was done, the adults played a game of
soccer until supper. Because there were so many of us, most of us ate sitting
on the high wall outside the house where our meals were cooked, leaving the
inside for the older people and leaders of our team. After supper we then had
another devotional before heading off to bed. It was very hot during the day,
and most of us got burned, but once the sun set it got dark pretty fast, and by
7:00 we were eating our supper in the dark. The stars were glorious though, and
made the walk from the house across the center of town to the church, a
pleasant walk. (With a lot of glances toward the skies at the stars.) J
Easter
Sunday we hiked up a hill around the village of Babicora. It was a beautiful
view, and we found a place to sit down for a mini service. There we sang lots
and lots of songs, and then had a devotional from Mark Brenner. The church
services down in Mexico there are held at 4:00 pm, so we ate lunch, practiced the
skit and singing some more, and then it was soon for the people to start
arriving. There were a lot of songs in Spanish that we didn’t know, but that was
okay. We did our skit of the Resurrection, starting where they took Jesus off
the cross, and ended with the women going to tell the disciples. It was fun
seeing the kids smile at seeing us all dressed up funny, and knowing who we were
from playing with them the day before. There was a message from the Mexican
pastor there, with someone translating it into English for us North Americans. J
After the
service a few of us spent an hour or so, playing instruments and singing songs
with a few Mexicans, who played along on their guitars. Overall it was a good
Easter service.
our view on the hike on Easter morning.
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