Sporty tasks and Elephant masks

(i reread this listening to "Sweet Disposition" by the Temper Trap)

"While VBS is fun and all, obviously sports camp is at least twice as awesome. Pretty much all that we do in sports camp is walk a half mile to a park, yell "juega" (play) and toss a soccer ball into the air. Then we attempt to play witht the very talented 8-year-olds. After about an hour some of the kids start to get a littel bored or tired, so we change gears from soccer to either jumprope, frisbee, or my favorite, what we like to call "Children Attack". The "game" if thats what you want to call it, consists of giving a kid a yellow cloth and telling all the other kids to tackle whoever has the cloth. Lots of bruises, but more smiles." 

luke johnson

"Hola las Familas de Grace Point! (hello families of grace point)

          So, even though it sounds like sports camp had a blast, I'm pretty sure VBS had more fun. When we began, we gathered all the children into the main room of the pre-school and sang two songs, "Abre Mis Ojos o Cristo" y "Yo Tango Gozo (paz) (alegria) en mi corrazon" (there are supposed to be accent marks in there but this iPad doesnt have that feature, lo siento) :) and in english those songs are "Open the Eyes of My Heart Lord" and "I've got the Joy (peace and happiness) Down in My Heart". And after songs we have a bible story read by one of us, the gpc students, and today's bible story was "David y Goliat" (i dont think i need to translate that one) and the kids really enjoyed this. After the bible story is crafts. Crafts can be difficult because the kids usually need help, and in order to help you usually need to speak their language, but we figured something out and they absolulty love it! it puts the biggest smile on my face when I see how such simples things such as a song, or a sticker can bring such joy! From all of us here in San Pedro Sula, adios! (also I just wanted to say hi mom and dad love you<3) with soooooo much love"

Jordyn Stroobosscher 

After 2 days of VBS and Sports Camp, this week is rolling right along. It is getting to the spot where we are all getting a little tired and bodies are starting to say "no thank you" to the food. Last night after running through two sessions of sports camp and VBS, we got a nice little break in the form of an evening church service. 

The service took place on the outside patio of the church "cristo central la lima". Our 27 person addition was too much for the small building to handle. We sat in mismatched chairs and listened as the service started with a time of testamonies. Three or four people chose to get up and share about what God is doing in their lives. It was so pure and simple, and exactly what the church exists for. One of the sharers was our very own luke johnson, who shared for a few minutes in Spanish! I would share what he said, but as my spanish is limited to construction terms and mexican menus I will have to just share the gist. He spoke of understnding what the bible means about believing like children a little bit more since coming here. He said that the faith and trust of these kids was teaching him. He said that he was learning from these little ones. He said that God was working. 

The testamonies were followed up by a time of worship, prayer and then a message by none other than our very own Tom Carpenter. He spoke about the desert. It is a strange thing to talk about dryness in a place that gets so much rain, but obviously that was part of his analogy. God uses the dry times in our life to teach us. He did it with moses, he did it with israel, he did it with elijiah, he did it with Jesus, and he does it with us. God meets us in the harshness, because in the harshness we can start to trust that we need help. It was wonderful. I know that as we are starting to get a little sick and tired, that is when we as a group starts to rely on God more and more. I can't wait to see all the lessons that he teaches us now. We finished the night with some cinnimion rolls and sleep. Today is a big day, a big big day!

Kye Kerchner