Perú 6/11/2010: Second Work Day
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Hello all!
Today was just about a mirror image from yesterday. Not that yesterday was bad and today was good, or vice versa, it was just a lot different. After breakfast we went to the children's home and got the water tank up on the roof. After that I put myself on bunk bed detail to see how the other half of the group was faring. They had a pretty good system down for cutting, routing and sanding the different sized boards to build the beds. I got put to work staining these boards. A few had been done the day before, and it's not a stain color I would have picked, but it's what they had so we went with it.
"We" consisted of two Peruvians and myself. José was a former tenant at the Children's Home but now he lives in the town, along with his brothers and sister. He is teaching himself English, so we had a interesting time with him talking to me in English and me answering him in Spanish. We got all of the long boards done before lunch and finished the short ones after lunch. There were also medium boards but we only just started with them because they were the last to be cut by the others.
They discovered that the boards had been stained the day before had the grains sticking out - apparently that's pretty common - but it wasn't very acceptable for kids to use. Pastor Kimball decided we should put some lacquer on them, then sand that and put another coat on. They got the lacquer and I tried a coat, and something odd happened. The lacquer began to actually pull the stain off the wood. I don't have any experience with lacquer, but no one else had ever seen that before either. We tried some thinner in the lacquer and it seems to be better but still not exactly what we expected. In the end we decided to go with unstained wood.
After that I had to leave because they were doing a very important ministry with the kids at the home - an ice cream ministry. They needed all available adults to walk with the kids and hold their hands in traffic. Oh and we had to eat some ice cream, unfortunately. ;-)
Then a few of us went to the church to practice songs for Sunday with their team and work out the technical aspects. We ate dinner and went back out for street evangelism. We started at about 9:30 and the girls all went to the church for women's ministry. Believe it or not, 9:30 was too early. There was some sort of festival today and there were fireworks and other goings-on in other parts of the plaza, but once that ended we drew a rather large crowd.
We did the second skit we had prepared (only without the girls), then both Justin and I felt led to ask if anyone wanted healing. Two people came up and we prayed with them. Then we gave an invitation for anyone who wanted prayer and all of a sudden there were about 50 people in front of us wanting prayer. That was pretty amazing. I didn't bring my guitar to the plaza this time and I'm so glad because otherwise I would have been playing and missed out on some good prayer time.
Now we're back at the hotel and I'm looking forward to getting some rest. While we're not working at the children's home tomorrow, apparently we're digging a well for the Shipibo people outside of town. They are the people who many of them don't even speak Spanish - they speak Shipibo.
FYI - you can also check out http://www.justindriscoll.net/peru/ for other updates and photos. Stay tuned...
Today was just about a mirror image from yesterday. Not that yesterday was bad and today was good, or vice versa, it was just a lot different. After breakfast we went to the children's home and got the water tank up on the roof. After that I put myself on bunk bed detail to see how the other half of the group was faring. They had a pretty good system down for cutting, routing and sanding the different sized boards to build the beds. I got put to work staining these boards. A few had been done the day before, and it's not a stain color I would have picked, but it's what they had so we went with it.
"We" consisted of two Peruvians and myself. José was a former tenant at the Children's Home but now he lives in the town, along with his brothers and sister. He is teaching himself English, so we had a interesting time with him talking to me in English and me answering him in Spanish. We got all of the long boards done before lunch and finished the short ones after lunch. There were also medium boards but we only just started with them because they were the last to be cut by the others.
They discovered that the boards had been stained the day before had the grains sticking out - apparently that's pretty common - but it wasn't very acceptable for kids to use. Pastor Kimball decided we should put some lacquer on them, then sand that and put another coat on. They got the lacquer and I tried a coat, and something odd happened. The lacquer began to actually pull the stain off the wood. I don't have any experience with lacquer, but no one else had ever seen that before either. We tried some thinner in the lacquer and it seems to be better but still not exactly what we expected. In the end we decided to go with unstained wood.
After that I had to leave because they were doing a very important ministry with the kids at the home - an ice cream ministry. They needed all available adults to walk with the kids and hold their hands in traffic. Oh and we had to eat some ice cream, unfortunately. ;-)
Then a few of us went to the church to practice songs for Sunday with their team and work out the technical aspects. We ate dinner and went back out for street evangelism. We started at about 9:30 and the girls all went to the church for women's ministry. Believe it or not, 9:30 was too early. There was some sort of festival today and there were fireworks and other goings-on in other parts of the plaza, but once that ended we drew a rather large crowd.
We did the second skit we had prepared (only without the girls), then both Justin and I felt led to ask if anyone wanted healing. Two people came up and we prayed with them. Then we gave an invitation for anyone who wanted prayer and all of a sudden there were about 50 people in front of us wanting prayer. That was pretty amazing. I didn't bring my guitar to the plaza this time and I'm so glad because otherwise I would have been playing and missed out on some good prayer time.
Now we're back at the hotel and I'm looking forward to getting some rest. While we're not working at the children's home tomorrow, apparently we're digging a well for the Shipibo people outside of town. They are the people who many of them don't even speak Spanish - they speak Shipibo.
FYI - you can also check out http://www.justindriscoll.net/peru/ for other updates and photos. Stay tuned...
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