Day 4 - Wednesday, March 19

 


Our day started with a visit to the Emmanuel School in Nazaret. The school started in 1992 with 23 students, today they have 338. The kids there were so happy to see us and we were just as happy to see them. In one of the class rooms I visited, I was impressed with the amount of English the students could speak.


From there we went back to the Iglesia Evangelica el Cielo church in Cielo. We helped the workers put cement down for a handicap accessible ramp. Some of us mixed sand and cement to make buckets of concrete and the others formed a bucket brigade to get it to the masons.


Today is Lacie’s birthday, so at lunch we sang happy birthday and had cake for dessert.

After lunch we were given a tour of Mission Emmanuel’s medical and dental clinics. These are great outreach opportunities for the community.


After that we went back to the church to continue working on the ramp. It was hot, sweaty work, but we had fun and a lot of laughs doing it. The masons were VERY patient with us!

We had dinner at Mission Emmanuel and then went to church service at Iglesia Evangelica el Cielo. Their minister recognized Lacie’s birthday and the entire congregation sang her Happy Birthday. Even though most of the service and all of the songs were in Spanish, we all could feel God’s presence.


In the children at the school, the masons putting down the concrete, the congregation at church, and all of the JK volunteers: I saw the face of Jesus. It was a great day!


- Barry White

 

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