Today we woke up to a wonderful morning, and Froot Loops. We took off around 7:30 and traveled to our destinations in time. We have decided to break up the day by the groups we were divided into.
Group 1 (Andy, Clar, Kendra, Nicole, Jordan C, Gerco, Emery, Daena)
Morning started with ESL, English second language classes and we were divided into groups of boys and girls to teach English to many different people from many different cultures, from Bangladesh to Tibet and Thailand we had students from all. We braked for lunch and went for Tibetan food, we had a kind of meat or vegetable filled dumpling along with some fried beef and some bread thing. We were going to order 6 momos, but through the language barrier, the guy thought that we ordered 6 plates of momo, so we wound up with around 48 momos. After lunch we prepared for an after school kid's club which usually had games, snacks and some bible teachings. We spent hours preparing and acted out the story of david and goliath, the kids loved it and we could really connect with the kids by playing games. After a pizza supper we were informed at the soulth asian community center that group 3 would not make it for the evening english class and that we would have to teach it. So we taught english again and were able to encourage the people in the classes to stick with it and keep learning. half of our group took one van back to terrytown and four of us had to wait at the center for the other van. We got home safely and are pumped for tomorrow. Hi mom- Emery
Group 2 (Seth, Jeremy, Justin, Rachel, Anthony, Jordyn, Patrick, Nikki)
Our day started off with our group heading down to Rockaway Beach were we continued to do reno's at the beach house. We've been painting, moldering, putting in a window, and putting in trimming. We worked until lunch time so we headed off the the Spanish restaurant to grab something to eat. We had a little bit of spare time so we walked down to the beach. A couple of us (Nikki, Patrick and Justin) decided to go for a dip in the freezing water. After that we headed down to the African Friendship center were we taught African Muslims English. It was a blast. Then we headed back to Tarrytown. We had a very fun day. We've been driving all over the place covering long distances and we have been blessed with great traffic conditions and lots of green lights. Thanks for your prayers. Justin
Group 3 (Scott, Joy, Nick, Hilary, Aly, Sydney, Sandra)
We had a really busy day today, we started off doing some evangelism in a park. We spent most of the time cleaning and picking up garbage looking for people to talk to. Unfortunately today we were placed in a park where there we basically no people. We then spent some time in prayer and worship with Pastor Boto. We had lunch at a Mexican resteraunt which we all enjoyed. We then started our trek out upstate where we spent the afternoon and evening cleaning/organizing a couples house. We all couldn't believe much stuff was in the house and how badly it needed organizing. After we were done Pastor Boto shared the gospel with the lady and her kids and then we spent some time in prayer with them. We finally made it back to the ministry center at 9:30 when we finally had a chance to eat supper. Probably the highlight of the day was spending time with Pastor Boto because he constantly is breaking out in prayer or song. We spent a good chunk of our time upstate and back worshiping. Turns out Pastor Boto is a pretty good guitar player. Over all that, it was a very good day, and were looking forward to more adventures with Pastor Boto.
