As I writing this I am literally sitting in paradise (El Nido, Philippines) eating the “Talk of the Town” cheeseburger. Today has been a very long and exciting day, so much has happened that I can remember anything, but I will do my best to give you the scoop. This morning after we had devotionals at ICM we piled into 3 tricycles and took a bumpy ride out to the countryside. My day is a little mixed up so I can’t exactly tell you what we did first but I think it was that we stopped to visit a church where we met the pastor. Then we drove a little further, got out, and hiked up a mountain to visit a preschool.  Here the kids sang us a song, but I don’t really know what they were saying because they were so shy and quite. Then as a team we shared a song with them, Father Abraham. Since we were there during lunch time the workers were very nice and killed a chicken just so we could eat lunch, it was such a blessing since we had not come prepared with any food. We then went down to the town and visited another church and met the pastor. Then we walked around the town with the nurse from ICM visitng her patients in the area. It gave us a wonderful opportunity to meet many people and pray over the sick for healing. After this we wentteam leader had the opportunity to pray over the entire high school. After this Erin and Andrew played some of the students in a game cipa-takraw which is kind of a compination of soccer and volleyball, you have a net and you can only use your feet or head to get the ball over.

One of the main things we have been doing is building duplexes so that families can move out of their homes in the slums into a safer and cleaner environment. So far we have only had two half days of cleaning, but tomorrow we will be there for the whole day. to the High School, where we shared with them what we were doing and who we were, then our