Tuesday, Day 2 at the Children's home part 1

Our God is Awesome!

For what ever reason, the Lord is waking me up every morning at around 5:45 (which is almost 2 hours earlier than I normally get up) but that is just fine as there’s a lot going on and having a bit of quiet time in the morning is great. We’re leaving for the Mexico a bit earlier today as the trip on Monday took longer than Candi thought so there won’t be as much time after breakfast.

In Chapel this morning, Mark talked about how Jesus is the light of men and that we have that same light in us to share with others today. We had a sweet time of praying together and closed.

After chapel and breakfast, we have job assignments – our job this morning was to clean the men’s bathroom. Cameron wasn’t very pleased with that but it was a great opportunity to teach him that serving some times means cleaning toilets.

We had another uneventful border crossing today, praise God! We’ve been warned to not expect them all to be this easy but the team is hoping to “break the record” with five easy crossings.

Today, we went through the downtown area of Juarez – it seemed to save a bit of time in getting to the Children’s Home. I got lots of video of it; it was interesting to see things like Subway, Burger King, and Peter Piper Pizza.

We arrived, unloaded the bus, and set up the canopies. Then the games began! The team set up a couple of carnival games (ring toss, bean bag toss, etc.) while Mike with some help set up an AWANA games square. He did it in a little dirt patch but it was a big hit with the kids. The family kids came out and the others from the colonia started to arrive.

I noticed Jose (had a picture of him in my previous post) and his family coming and saw that the stroller his mom was pushing had a broken wheel. I asked her to let me look at it and could see that a plastic piece that attaches the wheel to the frame was broken. I asked several of the men if the had Crazy glue and no one did but Vern offered to look at it with me. We found a couple of cable ties and did the best we could to hold it together. We'll probably never know if it held or not but I pray it does.

I'll continue this when I can as it's almost time for chapel. It's now Thursday morning and we will be heading back to the colonia. I'll give more details when I can get internet access again but please be praying for us today. There were a group of young boys (10-12 years old) that started a couple of fights yesterday. These boys probably come from bad family situations (single mom's who may be involved in prostitution, abuse fathers, etc) and their anger and hopelessness was obvious. Pray that as we go back today that the Holy Spirit would open their hearts to hear the Gospel.