The Adventure Continues!

I had a meeting with Pastor Roman and the mayor yesterday. We decided that the best place to work with the children would be the Bible institute that we built with Friends of El Salvador. It's actually pretty exciting to be able to use something that we've built in this way! I walked down to the institute this morning with Pastor Roman to meet Pastor Emilio who is the director of the institute. He certainly has his opinions about everything, but he was happy to let me use the institute and told me to have the children decorate the walls how they want. We'll have fun with that on Monday when we get started! This was the first time I've seen the  institute completely finished and it's very nice! It also has a beautiful view, pictures to follow.

I met with the parents of the children today. We have reached our limit with 15 children signed up! The parents were very sweet, but they had a lot of questions. This is a little bit of a new concept for them, a ginga coming in to set up  Bible school with the children for 2 months. : ) Please pray that there are no accidents and that no one gets hurt while they are under my care.

I am going into Gotera (closest town) with Trini and Sandra first thing tomorrow to purchase some supplies. We need some tables and chairs for the children and we will probably purchase some of the food for the week while we are there. Pastor Roman is going to clean out the classroom in the institute to get it ready for us.

I am starting to get a little nervous and am feeling underqualified. I'm not sure what I think I'm doing here! Who says I can do this anyway? I know that God put me here for a reason though and I am looking forward to what He will do here. I have a new favorite Bible passage right now: "But He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. " 2 Cor. 12: 9-10 I know that whatever comes out of this will be God's doing because I certainly don't know what I'm doing! Pray for wisdom for me and that the children and their families will be blessed by this program.

This is some of the view from the institute. The picture doesn't come close to doing it justice. It's just absolutely beautiful!