WELCOME TO SAN FRANCISCO
Wednesday, June 6th
CLINIC, BIBLE DISTRIBTION and a MOBLE CLINIC
Thursday, June 7th
It
is always fun to hear about the first night in their host homes. Everyone was full of stories as we gathered
at 8 this morning. One went to a wake,
another attended a birthday party and another saw a pig being butchered. One couldn’t find the shower, another
couldn’t find the hot water and another didn’t have toilet paper and had to
improvise. Last night was the coldest
night we’ve had and the students had to sleep in many layers. Their host homes don’t have insulation, there
are cracks between the board walls, and they have cement floors and tin roofs....all
of which equals pretty cold sleeping arrangements.
Today half the group was in the clinic with Jeff. They saw a variety of things. They enjoyed learning how to work the
ultrasound machine and did a couple procedures.
The other half of the group went door to door in another community and
handed out audio Bibles. They enjoyed
seeing the joy on people’s face when they realized that this Bible was free and
they could now listen to the word of God in their heart language.
This afternoon we went to a neighboring community,
Jataity, for a mobile clinic. Half
stayed and worked with Jeff and the other half went visiting with me. We visited the family that we did a 6 week
evangelistic Bible study with. As we sat
around drinking mate, they asked us to come back Sunday afternoons in order to
bring them more of God’s word. Praise
God!
When clinic was done, we started back home. When I had
almost reached San Francisco in the car, Jeff called to say that the mobile
clinic was stopped (his lights, engine and brakes weren’t working!). I turned around and met him on the road (he
was quite a ways behind me). Then I got
to do something I had never done before – I got to tow someone. It was slow going (we crept at about 5 miles
per hour or less) and a bit scary (especially since Jeff had no brakes and it
was all on pot holed dirt roads). What
should have taken 7 minutes took 45 minutes. We pray it can be fixed before
next Thursday’s mobile clinic.
Andy drinking mate and trying to stay warm. It was cold once the sun went down.
Jeff and Drew assessing the situation once the mobile clinic stopped working.
CLINIC, BIBLE DISTRIBUTION and CLASS
Friday, June 8th
Gracie, Jessica (Gracie's host sister), Tara and Liz
YOUTH, KIDS and SAN JUAN
Saturday, June 9th
The youth group met at 12:30 to make cabure, play volley
ball and ping-pong. A couple of the guys
ventured into the world of piki-volley (kind of like a two on two volleyball
but you cannot use your hands). Youth
group overlapped a bit with kids club which started at 3. It was a packed church yard with kids (and
adults) of all ages and I just loved it.
the girls helping make to dough
cooking the cabure
eating the cabure.
coloring at kids' club.
Jeff and Andy playing piki-volley (volleyball without hands)
Some of the students’ host siblings took them to a San Juan party. San Juan parties happen in every town (no matter how small) and multiple times all this month. Basically it involved young guys dressing up in disguises and acting ridiculous. There’s a lot of fire involved – a fire soccer ball, a fire bull, and a hung mannequin filled with fireworks. There is also a lot of alcohol flowing and dirty dancing happening. The students were quickly reminded that San Francisco needs Jesus!
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