Shelter: (Psalm 91)

When the official trip blogger becomes the official van driver  all of her creative juices quit flowing due to sheer exhaustion.  Please give me grace and bear with me.  This may be a really boring post.  We arrived last night and I was too beat to let everyone know we were safe.  Sorry about that.

We are here and we are safe.  Praise God!

Today we walked to church at Casa Hogar Douglas (one of the children’s homes near the campus).  It was fantastic!  The band was rocking and the people were on fire for the Lord. 

After lunch we headed to Casa Hogar Imperio De Amor.  We split into two teams.  The guys painted this thick, white, paint-stuff (I’m sure it has a technical name but I don’t know what it is) on the roof.  And the ladies cleaned, played with kids, and built concrete molds. 

I have a few pictures of the day…

The first one is Leah playing Legos with 3 boys.  When I walked in and saw this I couldn’t help but think that this same scene plays out in her home with her own 3 boys. 

The second picture is Andrew Dixon.  He is the intern down here that attends HCBC NW.  He is so unbelievably sunburned!  I told him to make a tough face since he says it doesn’t hurt.

And the final picture is of some of us at a little store.  We were waiting out a small rain shower, drinking some Cokes, eating some Salsa Limon Doritos.  Yum, yum!

 

The theme that B2B has us focusing on this summer is “Shelter”.  What does it mean?  Where do we find it?  How have we been called to provide shelter to others (Matthew 25:31-46)?

I know that us waiting out a rain shower under a metal roof while eating snacks isn’t the kind of shelter that is described in Psalm 91.  But I think the body of Christ can be a shelter for us.  It sure feels “safe” when you are with people who have the same heart for the orphan child.  The same heart for serving Jesus and the same goal of living a life that glorifies Him. 

Goodnight.  I better get some sleep.  The roads we are driving have recently been paved and they have not painted the lanes lines on yet.  It’s pretty wild! 

~Heather