It is Tuesday today. Yesterday morning most of us were ready to go back to work. Two days off - one at the beach and going to worship on Sunday was just what was needed.
Sunday afternoon we enjoyed one more amazing lunch and then had a few hours to 'siesta'. Some visited, some caught up on emails to family, I did the blog and we all enjoyed an hour snooze. Sunday evening we were invited to Guido's home for coffee and to see his lovely home - just down the road from the Ministry Center. We enjoyed visiting with the family and seeing where Ezequiel and Emilio live. We watched Ezequiel play his electric bass guitar and just loved the little ones that were there. We have been shown such love and grace from all the people that surround us. The love of Christ is being shown to us at every moment and we are experiencing this love over and over again
Monday morning we went back to the school to continue working on the roof. It is all done and we began putting two layers of block around the perimeter. Some of the ladies sifted sand, others ran a bucket brigade for sending sand and water to the roof. The local workers also began pouring a finishing cement over the concrete roof, sloping it so that water will run off. After today, it is about a quarter of the way. It is a lot of work sending the sand and water to the roof and we took turns doing the hand off to the next person. Those on the roof had a long piece of re-bar that was bent at the ends to make hooks and they lifted the buckets up one at a time.
Today we continued with the bucket brigade and the work on the roof. After our coffee break, Ezequiel and Michele brought two full sets of soccer uniforms to the school. The kids were called into the office and they changed into uniforms. What craziness!! They immediately began to kick a ball around and eventually the whole school went up the street to have a soccer game. What fun. The older girls cheered their favourite team, Michele joined in for a bit and the community also came to watch as the noise made everyone curious as to what was going on.
After lunch, Ezequiel took us for a walk about Hato Nuevo. The children followed us with their toy cars and their desire to have their picture taken. We saw much and our hearts were touched by the obvious poverty but richness in culture, life, relationship and love for one another. There are so many things that they have and so many things we can learn from.
Tonight we had our devotions and we once again experienced such fellowship and sharing. We will be back at the job site for one more day and will probably continue on the roof.
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