Sunday with Angie & Eliza

Reflection from Angie:

This morning, we were up for breakfast at 8 o’clock, which per usual, was delicious. We then began our church service, which we put on for ourselves and the staff at Camp Calvary. We began with worship songs, then continued into reading Philippians 2:1-11, then Afton gave her testimony in English and I gave mine in Spanish. It was really cool to be able to give my testimony to the staff in their native language. We closed with a song, and then had a meeting with the teachers from the school. It was very touching to hear what these teachers do every day to support the kids here; they devote their entire lives to the education and well being of the kids. After the meeting, we began the walk to go see the lava fields at the base of the nearby volcano. We walked down closer to the volcano, but we weren’t able to go all the way to the lava fields. The hike was still very beautiful, and it was interesting to see different areas of the land and different views of the volcano.

Reflections from Eliza:

This afternoon, after some much needed rest, we went out into the community and did more home visits. We had previously put together food packs to give to the families of different kids from the VBS. Today we made the hike to their houses and got to talk and pray with them. God showed up in a very cool way by providing a bus for us to ride on the trip there. One of the adults from the school donated their time to drive us up the mountain to hand out the food packs. This was very much appreciated as the houses were on the other side of the mountain and we were all worn out from our hike to the lava fields in the morning. It was really cool to see the joy on the families faces when they gave us tours of their homes. Later, once we got back to the camp, we got to rest for a little bit before a couple of the community kids asked us to play soccer with them. It did not matter that we could not fully communicate and that we didn’t have a translator with us, we all had the time of our lives playing and getting to know those kids. After dinner and a team meeting we got to end the day by staring at a beautiful sky full of stars.