Creeps and Waffles

Today El Camino had teacher development day so that meant no school for the kids (most of them), but there was more than enough work to do at the school.

The teacher's kids came to school today so Rachel helped watch them and do some fun activities with them. Nothing like balancing Oreos on your head (which you get to eat) that gets kids attention.

However, the morning started off with less traffic than normal because it was "No Car Day." Every year Colombia has one day where no one drives their car. Only commercial vehicles and some vehicles with special permits are allowed on the road. Our van has a commercial permit so we thought we'd be fine on the road this morning but the police pulled us over because we were supposedly going over the speed limit. But we did make it to school!

The staff at El Camino had a morning worship service which the team was invited to be a part of. What an experience to worship in English and Spanish.

Work at school today focused again on the alarm system, a variety of gardening projects, as well as Tino, Tyler, and Ronnie working apartment projects. It is crazy to think that tomorrow is our last work day at the school and it is only a half day. Everyone persevered through the projects and it is encouraging to see some of the immediate results from the work that's been done.

The girls had the privilege of going to dinner, after school, to Carrie Bergmann's apartment for dinner and discussion with Carrie, some of the other teacher's from ECA as well as two ladies who are staying at Carrie's apartment this weekend for a big education conference. They traveled by bus, 18 hours, so they could attend this conference!

Afterward the girls met up with the guys and had dessert with Carrie and the McCollums at "Creeps & Waffles," as Ken thought was the name for "Crepes & Waffles." We all had some delicious ice cream and good conversation. It has been fun to hear stories from different individuals on the team of what God is doing in their lives.

Tomorrow wraps up our work at the school. We appreciate your prayers greatly and would love prayer for:
*finishing up/testing the alarm system
*continued patience with each other and the work we are doing, which is all for God
*all the preparations as we leave back for the states on Saturday

Thanks for your prayers!