Thoughts from Wednesday

It was a busy day today, and we are very tired, so here are a few of things that we did today. This morning 6 or 7 members of our team left at 6:00AM to go finish building a house that was started yesterday. The rest of us loaded 250 food bags onto the bus and headed out to distribute them under a bridge in Teguc. All 250 bags were sent home with hungry families. After finishing that we went to Nueva Oriental which is a feeding center that feeds 300 kids per day in a room that is about the size of half of our fellowship hall. Some of us helped feed the children, while others sorted clothes for the clothing distribution. Part of our team built a house for a family who desperately needed a dry place to pillow their head every night. This family of 7 children, ranging from teenagers to one year old, was sleeping in a “house” {made of pallets nailed together, with plastic lining the inside “walls” in attempt to keep water out.} There was one mattress that was on the ground, and when it rained the water ran straight in and covered the mattress that these 7 children shared. The youngest of the children has been in the hospital fighting pneumonia from sleeping on a wet mattress. So our team did an Extreme Makeover on this house, we completely tore down the old one, and built a new one that would keep the water out of the house, and the family off the wet ground. We also bought two sets of bunk beds and a hammock to put in the house so all 7 children wont have to share the same bed. Tonight it is POURING the rain, and as we lay down tonight, we know that there is one more family that won’t be sleeping on a wet mattress, and one more baby who won’t be in the hospital with pneumonia. In the afternoon as some of our team was finishing the house, the rest of us were working at the clothing distribution where there was nothing left to give at the end of the day, and a few of us did a VBS with all the kids whose parents were shopping for new clothes. Around 6:00PM we headed back to the mission house where we had a devotional, and ordered in pizza. God has blessed all of us in so many ways today! Please keep us all in your prayers as we visit some orphanages tomorrow!