Things have started getting busy here, and in a good way. Last Thursday, we started a VBS with the ~400 kids at the Camp 7 Elementary School. Due to their schedules, instead of a five day program with sessions in the morning, we ran 2 sessions each day on Thursday and Friday, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. It has been crazy, tiring, challenging, confusing, and a lot of fun! The VBS was organized by Pastor Eric, a pastor at a nearby church, and each of us are helping out in one of the classrooms. I am helping teach the grade 6 class, which has 44 students. They are great kids and it is cool to teach them biblical values. The theme is "Flying with wisdom", so we have all learned a lot about birds and what they can teach us about wisdom.
We have one more session tomorrow morning (Monday) before we are done this VBS. In April and May, we will be taking what we learned and running three more VBS's in different areas around the city.
On the topic of lice, as I briefly mentioned in my last blog post, it is not a concern any more. The girls meticulously brushed their hair and are lice-free (still up for debate whether they actually had them in the first place). Jonas and I initially thought about shaving our heads, but then determined that we didn't actually have lice, but then decided that we should shave our heads anyway. (The nice thing about hair is that it grows back.)
We have also been helping out with the youth nights both here in Dontogan (the area where we live) and in Ambiong (the other church that Pastor Sam preaches at). It has been really fun getting to know some of them, and today I had the opportunity to lead a Bible study on humility this afternoon.
This Friday, we are helping run an all-day youth event. We are hoping for 70 to 100 youth to show up at one of the big parks in the city, coming from different youth groups and an Alternative Learning School (ALS) that Pastor Sam and Evelyn teach here in their home. Many of the youth, especially from the ALS, are not Christian, so it should be a really good opportunity to present the Gospel. I wil be leading worship and speaking in the morning, so please pray that God will lead me to the right things to say and that God wold speak into the lives of those coming.
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| The youth at Ambiong |
Here are some more pictures of the last couple of weeks. Thanks for reading!
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| This is a better picture of the stairway we helped build last week |
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| Sunday morning church service in Balacbac, at the bottom of 209 stairs |
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| Lost in a cave at the Botanical Gardens |
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| The Baguio Cathedral |
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| The power was out all day on Thursday, hence the candlelight dinner. |
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| Tagalog lessons with Ate (AH-tay) Evelyn |
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| Team! |
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