Wednesday. Hump day.
We are over half way through our trip.
Our work finally is showing progress.
We are working at Mauvreen’s house. She is a member of Open Door Church
and works at the Bible Society, where we have done work on past trips. We have replaced boards on the outside of her
house, tore off the old roof and put on a new roof, and only came down through
her ceiling once, right, Anthony? J
We added railing to two staircases, working on plumbing, and only broke one
pipe, accidently, of course, right Zach? J
and began painting yesterday. It is such
a blessing to work on the home of one of our friends, and even more so because
she helps us when she isn’t working. Our
work team, Chris Liebsch, Zach Chaplin, Darlene and Ryan Foust, Kaitlyn Dew,
Kendra Newell, Anthony Chilton, Cody Miers, and myself, is awesome! It seems
like we are all just an extension of each other. We all get along fabulously, including our
brothers from Belize, Wellington, Germaine, Jarod, Randy, and John. What a joy it is to work alongside brothers
and sisters in Christ, in order to accomplish a good work for the Lord! God has
blessed us with cooler weather this year so far. It has rained a couple times, which is
unusual, but not enough to keep us from our work.
The church services here on Sunday and tonight, were very
uplifting. The people are on fire for
God and the singing part of their worship service is fantastic. On Sunday, Caleb, Madison, and I led them in
a couple songs. They really enjoyed it,
but not as much as I enjoyed them. We
were running on empty when we arrived in Belize, after losing our teammate,
Ashley. The church here just poured love
into us and made us feel so welcome.
They prepared us to do our work this week.
Julie Daugherty
Every morning we start our day by visiting the Grace Primary
School. We teach the kids lesson about Jesus and living our lives according to
his word. On Monday Darlene did her lesson. It was about the Good Samaritan. I
(Chris Liebsch) Was Vic Tim (haha did you catch that?) Anthony and Ryan were
the thugs that beat Vic Tim up and took her money. Julie as a passerby too’
worried about her new jeans to help poor Vic Tim and Sonjia was too busy on her
new Walkman (showing our age lol) to help either. Zach played the good Samaritan to finally
stopped to help Vic Tim and got her up and some place she could rest. Troy made
donkey sounds because the good Samaritan had a donkey with him, Zack grabbed a
little boy out of the audience to be his donkey and Troy was in charge of the
sounds.
Tuesday was my devotion and I told the story of Zacchaeus.
Zach played Zacchaeus and Anthony was the tree so Zach had to climb Anthony.
The kids found this hilarious!! Sonjia always leads us in a few songs and the
kids love it. They know all of the songs and several of them they sing in
different languages which is a lot of fun for us. Today it was Julie’s devotion and she talked
about “Your Heavenly Father Loves You.” Troy and I played a husband and wife
who took their little boy to the park. We grabbed a little boy out of the
audience and he was our son. We picked him up and were swinging him like he was
on a swing set and then Zach pretended to go down the slide with him because he
was afraid to go by himself. That was showing the kids that if we are ever
afraid Jesus will come and help us too we just need to trust and believe he
will be there when we need him. The kids love it when we make them apart of our
story. Everyone has done a great job with their devotions and have had a lot of
fun doing them.
Going to the school is one of my very favorite things to do.
The kids are always wanting to give hugs and high fives and are so happy and genuine.
It always starts our day off on such a positive, happy note. I wish I could
bring one of them home in my suitcase. Lol!!! Chris Liebsch
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