Reflections from Chloe:
Whoa, what a day. I literally have felt every emotion possible. We started the day laughing with the cutest kids you can imagine. Emilie (an elementary student), who is now my best friend, walked into the school today and immediately wiped her nose on my bare arm. After about half a gallon of hand-sanitizer and three packs of wet wipes, we became good buds. After school Emilie and I walked hand and hand to her home. The home visits. They were the maybe the most impactful thing I have ever experienced. I experienced the most real joy I have ever seen and also the most brokenness. I am now broken and yet full of joy. The best part of my day is now the team meetings we have at night. Tonight it was said best, “this is not a fun trip but it is a good trip”. I can confidently say that in the last three days I have grown incredibly close with my peers, teachers (who are seriously some of the coolest people I have ever met), and my Father.
Reflections from Lana:
To say that today was an emotional day for all of us would be an understatement. As we finished our day with our team meeting reflecting on the day there were few of us without tears in our eyes. Something that struck me the most today was watching one of my worst fears become a reality right in front of my eyes. As we were doing the home visits and praying with the families I was trying to take everything in. As I looked around the home that we were in I glanced out the window and saw a woman in distress and a man with complete ease and control over the woman pushing her in the direction that he wanted her to go. As I watched this man have complete control of this woman in distress I knew that this woman was being trafficked. This broke me because human trafficking has been something that I have been passionate about, but when you see something like this it becomes so much more real. Throughout my reflection today I have realized that I never want to go numb to the events that I saw today, and it is through these events that my faith in Christ is even more solidified because we can find our hope in Jesus. It is through what he did on the cross that we can find freedom in a hopeless fallen world.
Reflections from William:
Today many things came into reality which I have only seen on the News. I actually got a chance to visit several kids’ homes, and see what living conditions they have; more specifically, the limited materials they have. It was touching or even shocking for me that the place they are in, there are just so little people can do to make the situation better. Then I saw the faces of those kids, with nothing but joy and innocence, it evokes a strong contrast with the society they are placed in. Very surprisingly, the kids or even the adults living here always have hope in their hearts, they never get upset with their lives, and they showed gratitude for everything they gets. This made me reflect about our “normal” lives, where we are constantly disappointing and feeling ungrateful for the various things we have, which is far beyond what the people get here. I first came in with the attitude of pitying the people, but after seeing what they live by and the optimistic mindset, I felt ashamed. We are incapable of saving ourselves, and we need God to save us. But it is critical to think that whether they live in a insufficient or a “fallen” world materially, or we are lost, blind and fallen in the materials.
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