I have the
enormous privilege of being considered” family” here and so was asked to the
Baptist Church Deacons’ meeting on Saturday. It was a beautiful setting, sitting on a terrace
overlooking the town, with God’s presence there. After the meeting we visited some sick folk
and ended the morning with a great dish of chicken and rice, with chips. Wonderful.
Monday May 1st was Día del Niño,
Day of the Child, and the whole school had a trip to the park. Pastor Rodrigo
led everyone in some Christian choruses and a Bible story. Then our PE
teacher got us doing dance sequences, they call it Bailaterapia; thoroughly
enjoyed by staff and pupils alike. A special day like this has to include
plenty of food, and large quantities of chicken and rice, bread, cake and cola
were consumed.
We have been filming
the work of the charity, and on Thursday it was the school’s turn. Everyone
looked especially scrubbed up for the occasion; the teachers in their new
orange tea shirts, the children in their clean white ones. One of the teachers
was quite ill, but had come in for the filming. What you call a star.
The Freedom in Christ
course is in its fourth week, and the group is beginning to participate more
freely, something not really in the culture here. Well, someone else wants to
join, which is encouraging.
But for me the high
spot of the week is that all the children in our top class can now read simple stories
of varying lengths. I have been saying for ages that our children can read, and
now I have it on film to prove it. If
you could have seen the children’s faces when I congratulated them: it was something
truly beautiful to behold.
Jill Ball 5/6/15
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