Monday In Santiago

The street outside our hotel is beginning to bustle with the sounds of Tuesday morning as I try to consolidate for you the events of Monday!

First, if your family member is on this trip... we are all well and we are all much more rested than we were when I posted a message on Sunday evening!

Second, we are having a great time!

Morning work was to wash the walls in the large room above the sanctuary that is used for the children's day care program run by Father Hipólito. While Denise and crew scrubbed, Padre H. drove Steve, Martha and Phillip to the paint store. We chose a semi-gloss in a lighter shade of blue than is currently on the walls. After lunch, and a song lesson from Poly, we headed down the stairs to greet the kids. The lesson for today was Moses leading the Hebrew people across the Red Sea and how that demonstrates that God takes care of us. The kids colored either Moses or Pharoah pictures attached to a headband. We distrubuted bandanas to wear under the headbands and the sound of staplers punctuated the general hub-bub of distributing crayons, re-distributing children in the pews and explaining that we only had bandanas for the kids who were actually in attendance!

Highlights shared at our evening meeting all included a reference to how much fun it was to work with the children at vacation Bible school (VBS). We will be applying paint today. I anticipate some photos of the blue mission group!