After breakfast this morning we headed to Mrs. Arzu’s Girl’s School. Peggy and Kate met their friend Kate, a volunteer of another ministry called La Limonada, and spent the morning seeing that ministry. The rest of us all broke up into different groups and rotated between the 7 different classrooms. Some girls did recreation with the kids and played with the parachute, blew bubbles, and jumped rope. A few girls did the same scratch away cross craft with the kids, and they loved it because they had never seen anything like it. The other team explained the bible story and passed out salvation bracelets, with the help of one of our translators, Cesar. It was so great that we got to explain the salvation story to over 150 girls age 7-17.

Then we all had a very nice lunch with ChuCie, Mrs. Arzu’s spiritual leader of all four of her schools, and the program they do in the public schools. We were supposed to have lunch with Mrs. Arzu herself, but she called and cancelled because she had a sinus infection. Peggy and Kate shared with everyone their experiences from their morning before ChuCie arrived. ChuCie then shared with us. She is a very religious person, praying two hours every day, and listening to her speak was mesmerizing, and humbling. She challenged us to start each day asking Jesus to guide our day. She reminded us to keep Jesus close. The programs they do for the children are amazing.

After lunch we drove 45 minutes in the rain to Casa Alleyua, the largest of all orphanages we will visit, housing about 400 children. When we were there we focused on the younger children there. We brought our parachute, bubbles, and stickers and the kids were happy! After playing for a while Dotty, the “Mother” of the “children’s home”, not orphanage, gave us a quick tour. Everyone is defiantly tired tonight after two long days, and needs to get rested before our extra early departure tomorrow for Xela.