Friday, June 25, 2010

Posted by pam.morgan on June 25, 2010 under Updates | Be the First to Comment

Today we went back to Blanco Navidad, the small very poor communnity in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico to do the second part of our Vacation Bible School (VBS).  Today we had over 80 children come and participate. We did a Bible lesson, craft, games and taught them a new song and movements.

It was great to see so many of the kids come back that had been there previously on Wednesday.

We purchased items for Pastor Pedro’s church members (who struggle with obtaining the basic necessities) and delivered them to pastor Pedro.

In the afternoon we went to Pastor Pedro’s other church located in Los Artistas, another very poor community with no running water, electricity or phone service and did a VBS with a Bible lesson, craft and song.  Because of the time we were not able to do games.  We had a great time with all the children who were very poor, but beautiful and ready to learn and participate.  ”They learned the scripture in Romans 5:8 “But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.” We had about 5o children attend this VBS and many parents also heard the lesson in spite of the 100+ degree heat in the church with no roof or windows (see below). The other structure (shack) below is the previous church which is now used for there children’s church. It has a dirt floor and holes in the roof.  Also below you will see the water tank for the community where water is shipped in.  You will see people chatting in the shade of the water tank.

For dinner we went to a local Mexican restaurant to celebrate the days success and honor Pastor Pedro and his wife Lourdes for their 25th anniversary.  It was a wonderful time to get to know them better and hear his testimonial as to how he came to pastor the church in Blanco Navidad (White Christmas).  There of course is a story for another day…

We came home at around 9 p.m. to a special treat by our hosts of an ice cream party.  The picture below is the host families daughter Becca and Barbara from our team.  Vaya  con Dios (Go with God).  Until next time…