The second day of our six day mission trip to the Malnutrition Center in Antigua, Guatemala dawned cool and cloudy, but didn’t dampen the team’s spirits as we ate an early breakfast and went our separate ways to serve the people in the city. Eight of us drove out to the Center, where seventy-plus kids were waiting for us with big smiles and open arms. We immediately split up all over the facility, some rocking babies, some bathing toddlers, and some playing with the older kids. One thing we soon discovered was the kid’s fascination with our cameras. We would go to take a quick snapshot of one kid, but his excited squeals of delight would quickly draw all the other kids around like flies to honey. Not only do they love posing with their friends, but they scream and laugh when they see their pictures and insist we take more. The little things they take joy in amaze us team members. They love when we just stop our busy schedule for a few minutes and roll around on the floor with them because, usually, they are left to play by themselves. Somehow they find happiness in even the hardest circumstances in life and, as I mentioned before, they are all age 12 and under. We look at them in pity a lot but sometimes, I wonder if they would pity us if they understood how shallow our perspectives are. Today, I think the team learned how blessed we really are and how much we take for granted. God isn’t just using us to touch the hearts of children, He’s using the children to touch our hearts.
(Written by Sarah Pappas)
Today the house building team built our second house, within a few miles of the first one, for a wonderful seventy-plus year old Christian lady. She told us she had prayed hard for God to send “angels” to help her out in her need and now there we were! Today we had two of our ladies with us, and although we kidded them a lot about their hammering skills, they were a great help to us and we finished the house in under 5 hours, even though it had an extra wall in it for a kitchen alcove. Tomorrow we will do house number three, and dedicate it as the “VBS” house. Everyone on the team has felt so blessed to be able to meet these wonderful people and to serve them in this way. They are so grateful to have such a “wonderful” house that to us is no more than a shed. We will never be able to take our own homes for granted again. (Lou Davis)
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