On our first full day, Sunday, we attended a local service...Pastor John spoke and our youth team sang praise...it was awesome. Then upon our return to the school, our room for the week sleeping on the floor, some of the men noticed their wallets stolen. Quickly the local law enforcement was on the case...(note only 300 people live on Great Harbor cay). This is where Mario comes in...he was the thief. A 13 year old boy, Mario had been getting into trouble for a while. He spent the night in the local jail and then the local law decided to do something out of the norm...they gave Mario to us to work off his sentence. Our team gave him jobs, and cool drinks in the hot summer and by the end of the week we all got to know Mario better. We hope our love showed to him even he robbed us showed Jesus....who tells us, love one another as you love yourself.
Please check out the pictures http://web.mac.com/melissa_jenkins
The other success was the quality one on one time with my son Dominick. We slept on the floor in our sleeping bags, worked, and throughout the day prayed...side by side. No TV, cell phones, intenet...just our group having fun and working hard. Dom really enjoyed the local kids, teaching them his back flips and racing them up the street. Dom reminded me several time what Pastor John told us the first day..."we are not here to build a building, we are hear to touch the local people of this island, show them that God love us all"...he use this as a good reason to go play and handout with the local youngsters.
Thank you Lord for giving g us the ability to travel and meet such great people, the are all precious gifts.
Next mission trip...Cuba in September...Keep on praying and thank you all!!!
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