Day 5 - Tuesday

VBS

Hello everyone back in Minnesota! Today was our second day with the little kiddos. It was a trying one for all of us who were involved. Our headaches from yesterday have now turned into migraines. Although we are all very tired we try our hardest to minister to the students the best we can. Today the children were taught the fifth commandment: obey your parents. Today I was placed with the second graders, who we have been told are the most challenging in the group. They do not listen, scream constantly, and bite each other. This makes it hard to make it through the day, but I believe it has helped all of us to rely on God even more. The morning devotional we read was very encouraging. 1Peter 4:19 states “So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good”. This reminded us that while we may not be seeing instant results this week, we are fulfilling the call that God has placed on our lives. Something we have learned from the children is a game called Ninja (see video).

Around 7 we went to the Arabic part of town, we walked a lot of blocks! It’s been cool to see the different areas around the city of Brooklyn. We are hoping to have an early night tonight so we will be ready for another long day tomorrow.

Angela

Construction

Good progress was made today on both construction projects.

The guys upstairs got the edges of the removed wall fixed up with sheetrock patches and the first coating of drywall compound applied. This puts things in good shape for that to be painted or at least ready to paint by the time we leave. Also, they started and made major progress on the ‘snack shop’ that we are building in the newly-enlarged youth room. The structure is done and it is almost ready for the door and serving window details. Greg has really kept that project moving ahead.

On the flooring project, we have made it across the room in the shortest dimension, where the flooring meets a [curved – tricky edge] stage on the side opposite the entrance. Mike did a great job jumping in whenever we ran into a sticky situation. It is starting to look like something now. We are also sitting in a good position to have this job finished by the time we have to leave.

We swapped Strombergs today, and I switched from the upstairs to the downstairs, otherwise the crew was the same. We also great help from Josh, a young man from the church.

Ron