Mighty to Save

If you´re anything like my mom you probably want to know every single detail of everything we did today, but that gets boring to write. (I love you mom!) So here is a quick summary of the day. This morning Kirk, Heather, and Sam worked at the park in La Merced, planting thousands upon thousands of plants. (Ok that´s an exaggeration but really, it was a lot and from what I hear, they rocked it!) The rest of us went to San Andreas, another smaller village about 15 minutes away, depending on road conditions. We did a our Kids Club with them and then went on a home visit to Jack and Mary Mlsna´s sponsored boy Jerson. (Jack - He seems to be healthy and doing really well!) In the afternoon we did our second Kids Club with the children in La Merced. At dinner, David, one of our translators, bought a rooster (yes still alive and squaking) for dinner on friday. He tied it up and through it in the back of our car to take home. Not something we are very accustomed to but entertaining none-the-less.

Now for the good stuff... After kids club I was walking with a 10 year old girl named Estefita. I´ve connected with her and her brother Glauber, 13 years old, better than most other children the past few days. We were talking and she started explaining why she wasn´t at the Kids Club yesterday. She said her father had gotten drunk and wouldn´t let them leave. Glauber was there because he had been able to escape. As we got closer to her house she looked up at me and told me that she didn´t want her dad to see the music sticks that we had made and hid it behind her notebook. I had difficulty understanding her explanation but it seemed as though he didn´t like them spending time with us and going to Kids Club. This was a difficult thing to hear, as it is whenever you hear of abuse. Unfortunately there is nothing that we can do but pray. This is still something that is in the forefront of my mind and a difficult thing to process and understand but I take comfort in knowing the power of prayer and God´s faithfulness.

We read the letters from some of you earlier this evening. Thanks for all of the encouragement! Speaking on behalf of the team, it was much need and appreciated! As I was reading mine, one verse that gave me particular comfort after this conversation with Estefita earlier today was this-



The LORD your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing.

- Zephaniah 3-17