Day 4: Update

Dear Friends and Family
It has been such a memorable day for Team God and Sin. We did brick and mortar on the side walls of the bakery and the distribution centre for Tabi. It took a while to learn how to use the plumb line, learning to "slap on" the right amount of cement so that the mortar will stick. A group of students also went to visit with the Mayan families living in that village. A Mayan Village Home is a stick hut, with just an opening to enter the hut, hammocks for sleeping, a stove to make tortillas, a wash basin at the side of the hut to wash clothes, and very barely furnished.

Praise report: a team of students during the house visits led Sophia, a young mom who is 17, to the LORD. Another student Dan, led a 14 year old to the LORD during our VBS activity. The VBS went well for God team, and we have a total of 62 young lives at this VBS. We pray that we are building in the foundation of these young lives, besides the foundation we are trying to lay for the village and community church projects.

Hocaba report: Team Jesus and Commitment wanted to complete their project at the Water Filtration Site. They were trying to fill the site with rocks, soil and gravel so that it can be cemented. It took a lot of team work to fill up a third of the site.

Seeing Jose at the work site was the highlight of the day for everyone on the team. Our teams met this 10 year old boy on our first day at Hocaba. We found out that he lived with his grandmother and was abandoned by his natural mother after he was born, and his birth dad was dead a few years ago. Jose has not gone to school all this time. Because of our friendship with Jose, a group of CCA students and Anya started to pray about the possibility of doing a "School for School Project" for Hocaba and Tabi next school year.

More updates to follow. God Bless.