It has been hotter today. We did some tough and fast moving work this morning moving rocks and slinging buckets of cement. When we got to lunch there were several people setting up blankets of items for sale on the lay Pastor's land. We were surprised at first, but then Colleen told us that Solomon had asked her if we'd like to see some carvings and things. She said yes so he had gotten in touch with a few people from town who sell different things to come and show us their items. Many of us bought things. Josh and I got some cloth embroidered bookmarks and a really pretty deep purple embroidered table cloth.
The kids were already gathering around 1:45pm so Patrick told us to go ahead and get ready for VBS. It turned out that the work for the day was about finished so everyone from our team came to help with Bible school. I asked Rich if he would like to read the story and he accepted excitedly! Colleen and Chris working on making snack (PB&J on tortillas cut into pinwheels). Rich read and Patrick interpreted the story of the Good Samaritan. While he was reading, I thought "Oh, darn I should have gotten the team to act it out, but I didn't know the whole team would be here." Just as I was thinking that Mike threw himself on the ground being the hurt man. Then Gary, Josh and Don came up being those who passed by and the Good Samaritan! It was perfect and the kids loved it. You can watch it here!
After the story we practiced the alphabet. Jen showed the kids the big letters we wrote out and had them repeat each letter in English. Then she went back through them and they remembered almost all of them! Then they worked on their letter writing worksheets that we made last night. One of the moms came over and pointed to her three kids. Then she looked at what her son had done and told Patrick "Oh my goodness he's never been able to do that before." It was really neat. As they finished we had snack and then we taught them how to play duck duck goose. They had a great time with the game. Afterward we gave out a soccer ball and the jump ropes again and they played until dinner time.
Dinner was a delicious potato and cheese casserole, chicken, rice and fried plantains. I led the devotion for the evening. Now we are back in the church playing cards and reading. Tomorrow will be more work on the footer and foundation and our last session of Bible school. On Thursday we are planning on having a clinic of sorts for parents and kids--teaching healthy habits like washing hands and brushing teeth. And Colleen will do some teaching with the parents about vitamins, etc. and that will be how we distribute the vitamins we collected to the community. It should be a neat way to serve the community.
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