It's been a full day!! After lunch we prepared about 200 craft bags together. These bags have two paper plates, string, paper fish and loaves, and a coloring page with crayons. The story we are telling the children during the VBS time is the story of "Jesus feeding the 5,000." The kids will make a small basket out of the paper plates and be able to color it and have 2 fish and 5 loaves to put inside.
Around 2:30pm we left for La Primavera, which is a squatter settlement in Guatemala City. More than 100,000 people live on the side of this mountain, most without running water or reliable electricity. Hearts for Heaven has a three-story facility that includes a "gymnasium" style room, a room for classes, and a bottom floor where the feeding center takes place. About 80 children came tonight to play games, sing songs, and just hang out for a few hours.
The team did amazing. Two people (Chelsea and Kacey) went on home visits with Beth and Roger. They visited two homes and were given a glimpse at the inside life of the people of La Primavera, which consists of dirt floors, one-room houses, and extreme poverty. The rest of the team stayed in the facility playing games, which included a hardcore soccer battle between the Eberhart girls and just about every child on the block, and really difficult puzzle that Sam couldn't even finish!
We stopped by Pizza Hut for dinner, and then came home to share devotions and have a team meeting. We also put together about 200 hygiene/gift bags to give away to the children tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning we will do construction - mainly working on pouring concrete for the floor of Alicia's house. Then we will return to La Primavera for the feeding program and doing the VBS program. It will be another full day!
You can see all the pictures from our first day here. Or look at the slideshow on the post just below this one.
Thanks for the update looks like everything is going well. So proud of you guys. You're in our thoughts and prayers here.
ReplyDeleteThanks Zack!
ReplyDelete