Today is a rainy, rainy day.
It is the end of the rainy season here in Guyana and it seems to be
squeezing in as much wet as possible!
Fortunately, our plans for the day are all inside. We are continuing with painting and repairs
at the missions house and later on in the day we will visit the children’s home
again to do some more crafts. Looking
forward to another day of hard work and challenges!
On Wednesday, we worked some more in the missions house in
the morning and then we spent the afternoon at PAL in Plastic City. With more kids this time, we had little hives
of busy bees all around. I think we are
all again struck by the children’s eagerness to learn. How many kids do you know who willingly and
joyfully come to an afterschool tutoring session to work on multiplication
tables and geography? They ask for
nothing else but our presence and involvement in their lives. We are all praying that our brief time with them
will help them to feel God’s agape love and that Angie and the Vreed-en-hoop
church members are able to explain that love to them someday.
Wednesday was Independence Day, which of course is only
celebrated by Americans! Still, we were
able to celebrate in a distinctly American way…eating a lot! We were privileged to have much of the staff
of Vreed-en-hoop eat dinner with us, so Angie and Amber had a great idea to
share our foods and cultures with each other.
Since we couldn’t have a traditional Fourth of July cookout, they opted
to go the Thanksgiving route with turkey, stuffing, bora (instead of green
beans) and corn, and potato salad. The
Guyanese contributed ginger beer, sour (a spicy mango sauce), purri (a layered
pastry type of bread), channa (a chickpea dish) and white pudding (cow
intestines stuffed with rice). I would
definitely have to say that neither group has ever had a Fourth of July like
this one! The time spent with our fellow
believers was so wonderful and we look forward to deepening our friendship in
the coming years.
