Dios es Bueno!
(God is Good!)

Today was a success! Like I told you yesterday, we had 3 different locations we were all at today...the first was the painting crew. We painted some rooms in a school house up the road. It was a good time of fellowship with each other.

The second group was here at the Guesthouse doing some construction. They were building up the wall around the Guesthouse. The crew said it was a really humbling experience because they had never laid bricks before and the two men there to help could do in 2 seconds what it would take about 6 of them to do in over a minute.

Sorry, there were no photographers in the construction group today. ;)

The last group was at the Vacation Bible School at Brookside's sister church in Batista. They all came back with wonderful stories about all the Dominican kids they got to spend the day with, which totaled around 80. They started with a couple spanish songs with motions that the kids loved and then Conner shared about God's Creation. They then made visors with the kids for craft time. The crew there had lunch together as a team and then went back out and did it all over again- a couple more new songs and Luke then shared the same lesson again for repetition. After all that, our crew went with the kids to play in the river.

Tomorrow we are doing the same, only switching up the groups. We will appreciate prayer for good attitudes in hot weather the whole trip. But specifically tonight we're asking for prayer that we could speak with our actions since it is often very difficult to speak with language due to the barrier.

One more thing I will add each day is the scriptures that Phill gives us as a group to read...join in reading with us!
Yesterday was Proverbs 3 and Matthew 22.

The scripture given tonight that we will discuss tomorrow night is Psalm 37.

We love you all...
:)