November 11, 2012

Good morning to the team! I was in bed when they arrived at 1:30am. It was very nice to meet them over breakfast.

Charlie Brown is here with this team and will stay for 2 more weeks after. It was good to see him, too. He brought some Tshirts with the VOH logo on them for staff and translators to wear. They are the brightest orange that I have ever seen, next to glow-in-the-dark. You can surely see the staff when we are out in the neighborhoods!

There are 14 total in the team, so we are traveling to churches together today. We started out at the Rose of Sharon church in town. This is the big one that has such great music from their wonderful praise band. It’s always hot in there, even with the new wall and ceiling fans, but the worship is awesome and we always love going there. The team had an eye-opening experience seeing the raw, pure worship of the Nica people. It was great.

We came back to the team house for lunch and then Mike had an orientation meeting with everyone. We demonstrated the Sinbox Sally drama and Mary and I were the drunks. Mike forget to say not to get him wet, so Mary and I both made sure to dribble some water on him.

I spent the afternoon working on the computer to update last week’s blog posts. Some of the team swam and others rested. I did lay down to read for about 45 minutes and then we were off to 2 church services back to back. We stopped at the team house between services for the bathroom and I decided to stay at the house to serve dinner when the team got back. This way the cooks could leave at 7:00pm (since they had been here since 5:00am and were coming back at 5:00am tomorrow). Dinner was taco salad, so it was easy to serve and clean up.

While waiting on the team to come home from the second church service, I practiced the guitar. It was a nice evening! I also got the chance to talk with Mike some about the Feeding Centers records and the year end reporting. It’s always nice to get a little time for planning and reporting and catching up.

I went to bed a happy camper and was looking forward to going to the English class 4 mornings this coming week.

The team is having a great time here. It is way out of some of the people’s comfort zone. It’s always rejuvenating to see the ministry and the country and people through a new person’s eyes. Sometimes we take for granted the work that God is doing around us. I pray I never get blasé about it. He is worthy of praise for every little thing!