Corn rows and Waterfalls [PHOTOS]

El Salvador Week One

This is just an update of the first week of ministry in El
Salvador. I did a pretty poor job of journaling this week, so the order of this
may not be the actual order of the week.

One day we went to a community where families were living
whose homes were destroyed by hurricanes. The homes in the village had been
built by USAID and other humanitarian organizations. There were about thirty
families in this community, and we prayed for them, gave them bags of food we
had prepared earlier in the day, and played with the children there. When got
back home, we had 17 bags of food left over.

That evening our team went to a village and invited them to
come join us outside one family’s house for music and a message from the Bible.
After walking around to all the homes and inviting everyone, we went back and
started playing and singing. Chickens, cats, and dogs surrounded us at first
but then people started showing up. Seth shared the gospel with them, we loved
on them, and asked them to write their families’ names down so we could bless
them with some food. Once each family put their name down, the number of
families on the list was 17, exactly the number of bags we had left. God knows
what He’s doing. We took the food to them a day or two later.

We had the opportunity to visit a school and play with kids
sponsored through Compassion International. I have found that tickling and
chasing is an international love language for most children. That’s what I did
with most of the kids. Goochie goochie goo.

We’ve been to church a lot this week, and we led worship one
night.

It was one of the first days we were here in Apastepeque
where we’re living and we were walking in the town square. One Salvadorian
teenage girl in her school uniform came running up to me and asked if she could
take a picture with me; she knew English pretty well. She said she loved my
eyes and said they’re beautiful. That was my Justin Bieber moment of the week.
Translate from Spanish: Me llaman Ojos… Ojos Azules…

On our free day we went to a sweet waterfall and I had corn
rows put in my hair. They fell out at the waterfall, but I got them again one
day later in the week. I doubt that’ll happen again. I can’t find the charger
for my beard trimmer either. I’m out of deodorant and shampoo, so I’ll get some
more of that today hopefully.

Those are the details of my life this week… I’ll talk to you
again soon!

Here’s a 360 panoramic spread flat…and the cornrows…