Wednesday, March 10, 2010

PCA Day 3 - Mission Trip - Amazon

Hello Friends and Family!! It's Lauren Kelley here and it is officially the end of day 3!! So far it has been such an awesome trip!! Today we were in the city of Parintins and we visited the school called Colegio Batista de Parintins where we held our VBS in the morning with the smaller kids and had a chapel service. After returning to the boat for lunch, our group decided to put on a skit for the afternoon chapel service for the high schoolers. In the skit, Kevin played the role of Jesus and the rest of the group played the roles of "sins" that people often struggle with. The main point of the theme was that each person acts out their sin and tries to tempt Jesus to get him to do the sin with us. Jesus refuses to be transformed to wordly things as each person tried to tempt him. At the end of the scene, Brittany played the role of a missionary and pretended to read in her Bible to be a model of Christ and conform her life like Him. Even through the language barrier, this skit had no words and we only acted to the music, which caused the students to understand much better what we were acting out. It has been so awesome getting to spend time with these children and play with them. It's so evident that they crave attention and love and it has been such a joy to share that with them!! We are leaving Parintins tonight and heading to the villages. Everyone is having a blast and we are so excited for the days to come!! Thank you so much for all your prayers and Mr. Green wanted me to tell his wife that he loves her!! AWW!!! We have had much joy making fun of Mr. Green the whole trip haha.

 

This is Mr. Green...I wanted to add just a little bit to today's blog. First, let me say that I have been so impressed with the students that we have on the trip with us. They have jumped right in and ministered to the children and students here in Parintins -- it has been very encouraging to see. It was really neat to see them perform a skit all together at the school today. Even students who are generally quieter and more "behind the scenes" participated, and the skit really ministered to the students at Colegio Batista. I anticipate that these next two days will be extremely eye-opening for them as we move to the village...this is going to be like nothing they have ever seen before! We are so blessed as well to have several adults with us who have been so helpful too...each one of them has been serving faithfully and enabling the students to do what they are doing. Overall, we can see the hand of God clearly as we work here in the Amazon. There is no other way that we could be doing the things that we are doing...we are doing this in HIS strength and not our own.

Pray specifically for God to renew us physically and mentally each day as we continue to work with these people. The heat can be very draining at times, and we always want to be able to give 100%. Pray, too, for the drilling of the water well over these next couple of days. I think it is going to be an amazing thing for our kids to see and participate in...I really believe it will revolutionize the way they look at the world. And pray for boldness in all of us, especially in our students. We will be sharing the Gospel with many people in the village over the next couple of days. Please pray that God gives us clarity and wisdom to speak His truth faithfully.

Thanks for your prayers and your support. We could not do this without you. And to Tara...I love you and I miss you! I can't wait to see you on Sunday!

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