Thoughts from Dave

After a tough week of leading Linda and I are finally having an opportunity to Blog :) My thoughts while typing this go back to the start of the week. It was a joy to watch our children playing with the Paraguayan children. Rachel, Sarah, and Amy know very little Spanish and the Paraguayan children knew very little english. With this limitation the the kids had a great time playing games by using hand signals and limited communication.

When we went to Kapi`i the same thing happened where the local children went out of their way to play with our girls and out daughters dived right in trying to figure out how to play a local game. It was an awesome experience to have a worship service basically right next to the barn yard and the woodshop of the local church planter Ramone. He and his family were amazing. His six children were all leaders amongst the children of the community. They lead singing, drama and many other events. It humbled me to think that we were worshiping in a setting similiar to the birth of our Lord and Savior. Dogs fighting, cows mooing, geese fighting, more people coming in all the time while others left. Elders of the church in Villarica helped with the service along with our worship and drama teams.

As a dad I have appriciated the comments from the other team members about our children. They can best be summed up by Adam, `Your children travel well`.

All for now as we prepare to head for the falls for our last day.

(written by Dave Breuer)