This morning, the team woke up at various times ranging from 6 to 7 AM, before heading to our morning devotional over Psalm 1. Afterward, we had a short bit of downtime before breakfast at 8 where we enjoyed some cheesy eggs with chiles, sausages, refried beans, and toast with butter and jams (the mango one was amazing).
After breakfast, we loaded up and headed to St. Margaret’s village. When we arrived, a missionary family named the Weeds joined us as we got set up and bagged 24 sets of food items from masa and rice to peanut butter and bread and went out in three groups to pass them out to people in the village. We got to meet families with kids who would be coming to day camp in the afternoon, as well as some elderly village citizens. This gave us the opportunity to pray over a wide variety of households and people. We got to see first hand how different the lives of people even in the same village can be, and even saw a child playing games on a phone while in a house with no other power.
When we headed back to eat lunch at 12, the meal was rice, beef and potatoes in a pineapple-curry sauce, and salad. The Weeds had made two different dessert bars for us (both were fantastic!). Once we finished eating, we grabbed all the supplies we needed and headed back to the village at 1.We brought stuff for crafts, games, and our first bible drama! The Lord kept the rain at bay most of the afternoon. After an hour or so of playing kickball, throwing around a frisbee, and making crafts and paper airplanes, we gathered the kids together in the pavilion and started the bible drama. The rain started coming down HARD right as we started, and Caleb had to yell the narration, followed by translations by Marlon. Marlon is from St. Margarets and works at village school. We will be telling the story of Joseph, and we finished Genesis chapter 37, ending with Joseph being sold to Potiphar.
After that, we let the children know we would be back tomorrow at 10 AM and headed back to Samuel’s Sanctuary. We got back just before 4 and so most of the team headed down to the river to swim, slide (and slip and fall), and just cool off before dinner, which was a delicious spaghetti with meat sauce and garlic bread! We followed it up with continuing our evening devotional from Matt before discussing activities for tomorrow.
Please pray for us as we run both morning and afternoon activities, including archery, sports, crafts, and much more! We are excited, and the children seem to be as well!
Goodnight from Belize!- Caleb & Rex
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