Today was quite an interesting day. With an earlier start to the day than yesterday, everyone was tired. First we headed to Youth World, where everyone sat through an interesting presentation by Brad Miller (our missionary from Woodbury Lutheran). He told us about a place called La Roca or the rock which is a skate church we are heading to next.
At La Roca there were many different people. There was music playin while everyone skated and a very competitive soccer competition with our team and teens from La Roca. This skate park had many ramps and rails and between 30-40 teenagers throughout the day. We had an orientation with Brock who is the pastor at the skate church and helped us understand that ministry.
We were asked 10 minutes before we got to La Roca to do a message and testimony and asked Lindsay Ahlquist to share her testimony and she did so without hesitation. I started with a 5 minute talk on Jeremiah 1:4-5 and Lindsay followed with a beautiful testimony of how God was working in her life. She did a fabulous job.
We spent much of the afternoon in relationship building with the group including some of us trying skateboarding (with several smiles from the teens when we fell) Lucas, Ashley A and Rochelle jumped right in. We had a three team soccer competition as well that brought groups together. Brock and the staff cooked us a hotdog meal with chips and soda. Some decided it would be a good thing to put ketchup, mustard, mayo, crumbled potato chips and hot sauce on their dog (that was interesting)
The team than did some prep work for tomorrow including sandpapering the gate area for painting tomorrow. The other half of the team had to move building materials from one side of the property to the other. Un fortunately, Chris was on top of the roof of the church and he decided it needed some natural sunlight as he fell through it. It was an 8 ft fall and fortunately landed between two tables and was not hurt with the exception of his ego J He had a few scrapes but is doing great. Our team has been having a little fun with him.
We went back to our hostel and had a great dinner at a local place of steak or chicken shish-kebab with potato’s with cheese sauce, plantain and salad. Several ventured into trying a strawberry soda and it was a great meal.
We ended our day with more orientation on culture including the 5 F’s that people have when they come back from a mission experience: fun, flee, fight, fit (in), freedom. We ended with a daily debriefing sharing our high’s and low’s of the day. Impressed that our team is sharing willingly and often with each other and sharing their heart with each other. The last member of our team, Rowan, arrived safely today and we thank God for that.
God Bless,
Erin Schaefer (with some side comments from Derek)
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