The first day of Escuelita de Verano (ESV) began at 8:15 am. We had a plan to invite 300 kids each day. On a normal "club" day we have three vans to pick up the kids in the neighborhood route I was assigned to with a teammate, Jonathan. The total number of kids on our route to pick up with our 15 passenger van was about 60. The roads on our route are not paved nor are they gravel; they are some rough, rough terrain. We drive 5 mph on these "roads". Let's just say at 10 am (when we start ESV) we had not even gotten to half of the houses. We returned with the intention to form a new plan for the next day; however, Jonathan went back for as many kids as he could get in 15 min. for the day. He stopped at one more house and brought back 8 kids!
The following day we decided to start picking kids up at 8:30 with me on foot and Jonathan going to the rest of the houses, making a trip to the church and then picking me and my route up. This worked so much better--Praise God! The third door I knocked on, by door I mean there was a cloth hanging down, rather than children or a mom first coming to the door two roosters walked out. Let's just say this freaked me out at first because I don't think that roosters are the most attractive, but as the week continued this made me laugh.
"La frase" as we say here for the week was "Con Dios tenemos la Victoria" or With God we have the victory. We taught about the parting of the red sea, crossing the Jordan, and the walls of Jericho coming down....and who was the victory in each story ninos??? Dios!! That's right. This led into our last day when we taught about Jesus victory on the cross and His victory in our lives.
The week went great and we had 188 kids learn more about the victory of God the last day after we finally got our routes straight. Thank you for your prayers. They are powerful!
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