I know
I’ve been slacking on posting blogs-I apologize:) Here’s a recap
of my month in Peru.
For the
past month, my team was working to serve the children whose families
work in the city dump. We were partnering with IncaLink Peru, an
organization that is working to create a better life for the families
in the community of Trujillo. One of their main ministries is a
daycare center where children can come three times a week to get a
hot meal, learn basic hygiene, play games, get loved on, and just be
a kid. Our team got to go spend time with these precious kids once a
week, to love them and show them how valuable they are.
past month, my team was working to serve the children whose families
work in the city dump. We were partnering with IncaLink Peru, an
organization that is working to create a better life for the families
in the community of Trujillo. One of their main ministries is a
daycare center where children can come three times a week to get a
hot meal, learn basic hygiene, play games, get loved on, and just be
a kid. Our team got to go spend time with these precious kids once a
week, to love them and show them how valuable they are.
We were
living at an unfinished children’s home. This will be a place for
kids with no families or families that can’t take care of them to
live and have a home where they will be cared for and loved. We were
the first people to ever stay there, which on one hand, made us the
guinea pigs to find out what still needed to be done or what wasn’t
working, and on the other hand, was such an honor because we had the
opportunity to pray into and lay a foundation for what kind of place
that would be by the way we lived while we were there.
living at an unfinished children’s home. This will be a place for
kids with no families or families that can’t take care of them to
live and have a home where they will be cared for and loved. We were
the first people to ever stay there, which on one hand, made us the
guinea pigs to find out what still needed to be done or what wasn’t
working, and on the other hand, was such an honor because we had the
opportunity to pray into and lay a foundation for what kind of place
that would be by the way we lived while we were there.
We spent
most of our days doing work around the children’s home. We made
bricks and bricks and more bricks, which was a process that involved
shoveling lots of dirt, adding water, stomping in the mud, putting
the mud in molds, and dumping the molds out to dry in the sun. The
process may have involved some mud fights, too.
most of our days doing work around the children’s home. We made
bricks and bricks and more bricks, which was a process that involved
shoveling lots of dirt, adding water, stomping in the mud, putting
the mud in molds, and dumping the molds out to dry in the sun. The
process may have involved some mud fights, too.
We also
fertilized and weeded a huge cornfield and painted the inside and
outside of an entire building.
fertilized and weeded a huge cornfield and painted the inside and
outside of an entire building.
We also
visited the city dump, where the families of a lot of the children at
the daycare or who will live in the children’s home work. The dump
workers spend their days immersed in giant piles of trash, searching
for anything that could be valuable for them to sell. Trash trucks
come in, and people literally run after them trying to be the first
ones to get to the trash to increase their chances of finding
something good. We went there to pass out food and water and just
spend time talking and praying with the workers. It was such a
surreal experience, to see that this was their life-not just living
and working in the trash, but actually running after it when it came
in. Makes me think about how much trash we run after in our own
lives, and we just accept that that’s the way life is, when really
there’s so much more that God has for us.
visited the city dump, where the families of a lot of the children at
the daycare or who will live in the children’s home work. The dump
workers spend their days immersed in giant piles of trash, searching
for anything that could be valuable for them to sell. Trash trucks
come in, and people literally run after them trying to be the first
ones to get to the trash to increase their chances of finding
something good. We went there to pass out food and water and just
spend time talking and praying with the workers. It was such a
surreal experience, to see that this was their life-not just living
and working in the trash, but actually running after it when it came
in. Makes me think about how much trash we run after in our own
lives, and we just accept that that’s the way life is, when really
there’s so much more that God has for us.
This
month I’m in Nicaragua-more blogs to come soon about my time here!
Thanks again to everyone who is supporting me and praying for me! I
appreciate you more than you know!
month I’m in Nicaragua-more blogs to come soon about my time here!
Thanks again to everyone who is supporting me and praying for me! I
appreciate you more than you know!
