Thursday

It was back to work beginning Thursday morning. After breakfast and our time with God, we broke up into our 3 teams once again. Painting team, cliff crew, and the newly titled baseball field crew (AKA – road crew). There are 2 baseball fields at the center. Our field crew had to work on the pitcher’s mound to add more dirt and then take care of the overgrown grass around home plate and each of the bases.


Once again the complaint department was closed…mainly because students are keeping their focus on the Lord and not circumstances or surroundings. The morning flew by. We broke for showers and lunch and then off to a new site for VBS. It was Iglesia Bautista – Cana de Galalia. (Canaan of Galilee Baptist Church). This is the mother church of the church plant we served at on Monday and Tuesday. It’s also the church that we worshipped at on Sunday.

Although it was bigger than the home we were in on Monday and Tuesday, it was much more difficult to do all of our groups at the same time. It was loud and hot. Very thin walls and ones that didn’t go to the ceiling created chaos at times. The teaching team struggled because they were right next to the craft team and the rec team, and the music team was just over the wall, so they couldn’t be too loud. It was a great day with about 50 kids, but flexibility became incredibly necessary!

As we were packing up, the rain began to fall. This time it was a monsoon. Combine the traffic nightmare that Managua has with the monsoon, our travel home was crazy. Water was flooding the streets. Large puddles seemed to become small ponds in a matter of minutes. People were walking everywhere. They were darting in and out of traffic like the game “Frogger.” Many of the motorcycles and some cars drive without tail lights. I’m not sure driving would be fun. I am so thankful for great bus drivers and for Bruce, who gets around without seeming stressed.

Everyone was pretty worn out at the end of the evening. After dinner we jumped right into our share time. It never fails…tonight we went for well over an hour just sharing about what happened at VBS. Incredible stories of God moving!

Tomorrow is our last VBS day. Many of the students are dreading it.

Pressing On,

Dale