México: Loving God, Loving Others: Una Semana Loca

We’ve had a bit of a crazy week. Lots has been going on with so many people here, birthdays, and a few of last minute things. I’ll try to give the week in review for you all.

Sunday, I rode to church with the team of seven college students from New York that are here and afterwards we explored the city a bit. We ate lunch at El Pollo Pepe and then headed further downtown to the market. I managed to NOT buy anything while we were there, but was able to just enjoy getting to know the people from the team and also see what the market had to offer. In case you’re wondering what they had it was three stories packed full of shops, food, and gifts.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday were pretty chill days. Nothing too crazy happened and things at school went well. I am enjoying this schedule that we have and am hoping that it is really one that we will be able to keep for the rest of the school year…with limited interruptions.

Thursday, our 4^th-6^th graders went into the city with Jenny and Amber to take a practice test. It was a good, challenging opportunity for them to practice for the end of the year test. Though the test was challenging for them, they almost forgot about it by the time they got back to the house. I think their time out to lunch at Burger King with Jenny and Amber helped them forget J

While Amber and Jenny were in the city with our four oldest, I stayed back with the rest of the kids to have a semi normal morning of school. I had a couple of the team members help me supervise the older group of kids and I worked with the 5 youngest all morning. It cool to see how well the kids did with the schedule even though things changed a bit and they had substitute teachers (since they’ve never had them before).

We also had Kid’s Club on Thursday afternoon! The team that is here helped a lot with Kid’s club. We had a Kid’s Club back in February when the big team from LA was here. It is essentially a VBS. All the kids from the village are invited here and we do crafts, play games, sing songs, have a little Bible lesson, and then feed them. This time we had about 80 kids again, but most of the team members speak Spanish, so it was fun to watch them run the activities and share the gospel though their testimonies and a few fun skits that kept the kids engaged. I’ll post some pictures of it below.

This was also the week for birthdays. We celebrated three birthdays this week! That might seem a little crazy, but with so many people living under one roof, another birthday is never far away! One of our kids turned 10, our youngest turned 1, and one of our two new students turned 8. It was fun to celebrate with them all and to see how God brought them each here and is working in their lives.

Next week will be a bit different as we will have a shorter school week and be doing some other activities on the days without school. We are still working out the details and plans, but I’m sure you’ll hear all about it next week when I make my next post! J

Thank you for your continued prayers for me and the ministry as a whole here. It is so cool to see what God is doing and how He is using this fairly new ministry (4 years) for His glory.