Second week coming to a close

Hola! Second week of school is already done! Only 10 more weeks of classes! It’s going by quickly! This week the topic we studied was relationships. On Tuesday we discussed that God made men and women equal. God made the genders different but that is so they can complaint each other. One of the guys ask if all the girls would stand in the middle with all the guys surrounding us, as they song of our beauty and ask God for forgiveness for anytime they may have mistreated a woman. It was a powerful moment. We were reminded that as women, God has may us beautiful and worthy of love and we need to allow guys to treat us with respect. Our relationship study started with studying the beginning to understand the purpose of relationships. As a side note we learnt a tiny bit about the fall of man. One part that didn’t relate to the relationship theme but was really interesting to learn was about Genesis 3: 14- 15. Adam and Eve have just eaten from the tree and God is confronting the serpent. God tells the serpent that he will be cursed to crawl on his belly. Then God goes on to say, “ And I will put enmity between you and the women and between your offspring and hers: he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” God is telling the serpent that an offspring of the women (note nothing is said about the man being involved) will crush him. God is foretelling of the coming of Jesus! Exciting hey! At the fall of man, God already promised to give His own son for us. Class has really been going well. But something that became of a concern on Wednesday was that not only Paola but three other people still need all their money for DTS. And the money is due by the sixth week of class. In that moment I felt called by God to help. I listened to the call of God and started a fundraising committee. We have decided to write a team support letter for all the team to send home, even those who have their money, because we are all in this together. Also we have made a power point to take to local churches and are in the middle of planning a Fun Day type event. We are planning on having a ‘football’ tournament lead by our own British football expert, along with a local band playing music and an ice cream sale. Planning is difficult because most of the team is not use to planning anything. But I am enjoying it anyways. It’s keeping me really busy! Also this week on Thursday we had our first local outreach. It was in this very poor area in San Jose that is filled with drugs. We had to dig and move sand from a dirty river bank to a near by church to level the ground to protect from flooding. The work was hard but we got a lot done. While we were working, drug deals were going on right in front of us. In this community people are not shy about flashing drugs around. I did feel safe at all times but it was scary seeing little kids playing in the same area as people dealing drugs. Please pray for this community and the young kids growing up there. On Friday we did a pray walk through the community around our house. We prayed for people we saw and anything else God put on our heart. The community is a middle class community, not too much poverty and fairly safe. After our local outreach the day before we all feel very blessed to be in such a good community. This weekend I have a lot of work to do with fundraising and schoolwork so I am spending my time work on all of that. Please pray for me that I don’t get distracted by other social events, and that I stay focused and get my work done. Also please pray for my parents who are in Europe for the next few weeks celebrating their 30th anniversary. Ask God to keep them safe and away from pick-pocket –ers.