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Get news and updates sent to your cell phone via text message.| Belize Update - June 21 |
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| Written by Tim Schmoyer | |
| Monday, 23 June 2008 | |
 Belize Update - June 21 No thunderstorm came through this morning, but we STILL did not get to work on the camp building this morning. We were all out there ready to go, but another equipment setback meant that we stood around and played some VBS games together to kill time. Eventually Kevin showed up with some machetes and we trekked about a mile back into the jungle to go swimming in the river. The river felt wonderful to our hot and sweaty bodies, especially since we literally walked through the most densely populated mosquito infestation we've ever experienced. We were swatting three or four at a time, both on ourselves and whoever was around us, despite wearing bugspray.After lunch we went to a Mian Indian village and did a day of VBS with those children. We were really able to bless one family in particular that Kevin knows there with a monetary gift that another teenager in Minnesota had graciously donated specifically for the Belizian people. This Christian family will use it to run electricity to their hut and help him be able to go to a doctor for his back. We also purchased many of their trinkets in order to support them even more, since most of us were going to buy a lot of those things from a random person at the market later next week anyway. We figured we might as well support them instead. By the time we left, their faces were glowing with gratitude. They definitely felt blessed. Oh, and I also saw my first real banana tree and Kevin even picked a banana cluster off of it, which we ate on the bus on our way back home for dinner. This evening we went to youth group at Hattieville Baptist Church and joined their teenagers for their weekly meeting. We had a great time meeting some of them for the first time, playing games together, singing and sharing testimonies. Tomorrow morning we're actually taking over all the teaching at church, including Sunday school classes and the service! Since it came up at the last minute, this isn't really something we prepared for ahead of time, but I know our kids will do a great job nonetheless. Thanks for your prayers and keep 'em coming! Pray that we would become unified as a group, that everyone would see and appreciate the various individual roles that each member contributes regardless of the "value price tag" they may place on it. |
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