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Thursday, July 3rd
WOW, what an incredible ending to a fantastic
week! The day once again started early as a van packed full (16
people!) headed to the orphanage at 7:00 to start finishing up the
construction work there. The rest of the group arrived around 8:15
and we did one last day of VBS with the kids. Around noon, we went
to the church of a pastor named Felipe. This church was in the
middle of a very poor colonial. When we first got there, Evan led
the people in a few worship songs (in Spanish of course) and Pastor
Felipe preached. Then we had a cookout for a huge group of people
from the church and surrounding colonial. We served hamburgers,
french fries and water until everyone was fed. After lunch, we
handed out the food boxes, one to every family, and played with the
kids that were hanging out around the church. We then packed up and
headed to another colonial named "Blanco Navidad" ("White Christmas"
in English) and passed out the remaining 30 food boxes. Then we went
over to the location where the house was built for a family of
Felipe's church. Lydia dedicated the house and prayed over it with
the help of Anna, our wonderful translator! Finally, we headed back
to the orphanage, where we spent what was left of the afternoon
playing with the kids one last time. Then we all circled up and
dedicated the new rooms. Shaun prayed over the orphanage, and in
return Mama Lupita prayed over us. It was incredible to see how much
God can do in what seems like so short of a time period! All we have
to do is give him our best and completely surrender to his will, and
in turn great things happen. After leaving the orphanage we went to
Pollos Buenovistas, the famous chicken restaurant we eat at every
year. One word: delicious! One stop at the Soriano supermarket and 2
hours of waiting in line at the border later, we arrived back at
church around 10:30 for the night. Praise Him for a wonderful week,
as God has clearly worked in the lives of so many people not only in
Mexico but within our own group as well. Please pray for our safety
as we begin the journey home tomorrow morning, we are all very
tired!
Thank you so much for
all of your prayers and support along the way!
-Emily Bennett
DON'T FORGET to come to our "stockholders meeting" and hear more
details and testimonies of what our Lord has done. The service will
be 6:00 pm on Sunday, July 6th at First Baptist Church, FWB. You
don't want to miss out!
Wednesday, July 2nd
Today was a crazy day and a late night! We
accomplished a TON, though. The house construction finished their
project today and is ready for the dedication tomorrow. VBS was a
great and the orphanage construction team accomplished a lot as
well.
Monday, June 30th
Today we went to the colonials and finished all
the walls. We started on the roof but its halfway done, we met 4
kids.
Their names were
Danny, Jasmine, Rudy, and something i cant pronounce in Spanish. We
gave them water and Bibles in Spanish; we played games and had a
translator who would talk to them for us. They all pointed to were
the church was they said they knew Jesus.
-Lydia Phillips, House Construction
Today at the orphange we started VBS. All went well and everyone did
their job to perfection! The kids greatly enjoyed seeing all of us
and continued to ask if we were coming back tomorrow. The
construction team at the orphange continued to work by painting,
scraping ceilings, wiring, and doing other things to the rooms which
they are building for the kids. All in all, today went very well and
i can't wait to go back and see the kids smiling faces again
tomorrow.
-Matthew Stanford, Orphanage
Sunday, June 29th
Today on the house building team, we accomplished
a ton. We were able to finish the floor and put up the two side
walls. God blessed us with an extremely nice breeze and a semi
cloudy sky later in the day, about the time when it would normally
be unbearably hot. We hope to have the house fully complete by
Wednesday so we can get to the orphanage Thursday morning before
handing out food boxes.
-Brian Hambleton
Today a small team went out to get a little work done on the
ophanage. We did some painting and some wood cutting. We got alot
more then we thought we would, so it should be a great week ahead we
are going to have a great turn out stay tune and find out
-Tiphani Owen
Today at Primer Iglesia, we got the chance to hear a bilingual
sermon and worship service. It was a great experience to see how
worshipping and praising God is truly the same in every language. We
got to enjoy some of their music, as well as share our praise band
with them. After the evening service we had a cook -out for the
members of the church, and got to chill with them and tell stories.
Overall today was really fun, my favorite parts were watching the
ping-pong tournaments, playing patty-cake, and singing Shout to the
Lord in Spanish.
-Olivia Harrison
As you can see, many different things went on today. 12 paople
worked on construction at the orphanage, 9 people worked on the
house construction, and the rest stayed back at the church where
they prepared for tomorrow's activities, went to church, and
varnished 96 boards to be used for construction at the orphanage
tomorrow! Much was accoplished, but we've only begun scraping the
surface. Please pray that the rest of the week will go just as
smoothly as God continues to work in incredible ways!
VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE!!!!!
The 4th Annual Laredo Table Tennis Innovational is well underway!
First round matches started today and we're about ready to move on
to round 2. This year has a grand total of 34 participants. Players
to watch include Ryan Kirk, Logan Clark, Cara Clark, Emily Bennett,
Kenny Phillips, Matthew Stanford, and Matt Brown.
Saturday, June 28th
Last night almost everybody went right to sleep. Everything went
smoothly until the big bus blew two tires. We then had to double up
on the short bus and leave the big bus and a few of its passengers
to wait and help replace both tires, this of course delayed our
trip. We just chilled after breakfast at the rest stop until we got
word that the big bus's tires were fixed and they were on their
way. The people who doubled up drove on to "the land of milk and
honey" (buc-ee's!) to eat lunch and wait for everybody. The rest of
the day went well besides the air conditioning.
-Stephen Stanford
Last night I was sooo tired but I never really got to go to sleep
till like 3:00 AM. But the bus ride was pretty fun, and very very
long. But I am actually happy that we drove all the way through
instead of stopping for the night because I was very eager to get
here. As soon as we got here we unloaded all of the bags and set up
the air mattresses and everyone is exhausted!! But I am very excited
to be here and I can't wait until we go to the orphanage and I get
to play with all the little kids.
-Rachel Phillips
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