Friday morning, June 5th, we we're privileged enough to have the opportunity to visit a local elementary school. The students are taught some English so they we're trying to practice the little bit they knew with us. It was an incredible experience! They also had a sing & dance competition that we we're asked to join in on. Its safe to say that their culture promotes public outbursts of dancing much more than ours. It gave us all an opportunity to loosen up and assimilate to our new lives for the next 8 weeks or so. Activities like this will certainly be the norm!
Upon leaving the school we were taken back by all the little voices that were yelling "Don't forget to come back and see me, don't forget to come back!" At that moment I believe the reality of why we are here was truly confirmed in our hearts. You can send money and resources but no amount of either can replace the joy those kids felt from simply seeing our smiling faces and I can confidently say that the joy we felt was equally as impacting on our lives as it was on there's. We were a people created for relationships and when you go to the other side of the world you find a people created for the exact same thing.
Our team has experienced supernatural unity and our bond continues to grow. Keep us in your thoughts this week as we split up into 3 separate groups to seek out persons of peace among the different islands of the area. Ask our father to use us as vessels to reveal truth to hearts that have been fed centuries of lies.
Its no small task but we can do all things through Him
who strengthens us.