Today the pastor in El Barro (the community where Faith Home is located has 33 families living in it - to give you some idea of the size of the community) moved 19 people from El Banano (a community close by where he has been preaching once a week) to the church in El Barro because the flooding has forced them from their homes. Marcial believes since he has been preaching at the church the people in the community should see the church doing something to help the people. Brad and Marcial went to El Progreso to buy more rice, beans, flour, oil, and salt for the this new group of people. Cindy remained at Faith Home to attend the weekly sex education class for the older kids. They were having a local doctor come and talk with the kids. Apparently it was, shall we say, very straight-forward. Cindy says she learned a lot.
This is contrasted with our evening. Our teammates Sid and Vickie Smith have started something new with the transition kids. The transition kids are our children that are 14 years old and above. Each month they take those with a birthday that month out for dinner at Applebee's in El Progreso (Yes, we do have an one here). We go to Applebee's because they have a buy one meal get one free. So tonight we went with them along with them and six kids: Dunia, Odalin, Josefina, Selvin, Alan, and Joel. This is such a nice evening getting to just hangout with the kids for a few hours without interruption. Watching them experience something they rarely, and some never, have experienced. Eating at a nice restaurant, watching the flat-screen television in the restaurant, and then enjoying an ice cream before leaving.
Between placing our orders and getting our food we went to the grocery in the mall and bought paper plates, plastic cups, powdered milk, and plastic spoons for the people back at the church in El Barro. Such a contrast in lives of the people now living at the church and the lives of our children at Faith Home.
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