A Day of Worship and Preparation ( a.k.a. Day 1)

Two girls from the church singing a song

Brenda and the interpreter Louis

Joan blessing the congregation with a lovely song

Hello all! We had an excellent day of preparation today, our first full day here in Leon! We started the morning off with a nice breakfast and some relaxing down time before heading to church. We attended church at the Evangelical Methodist Mission church just down the road from our campus. The cool thing about this church is that it was founded by the team from Norcross, GA who are also staying at El Ayudante with us this week. The service was an awesome 2 hours of worship, with Brenda from Norcross preaching an awesome sermon on David and Goliath (she is one of the associate pastors at Norcross UMC). After church we came back to campus to enjoy a delicious lunch of chicken kabobs, rice, and fresh fruit (yum!).

After lunch we split into our 2 teams (Medical and Dental) to get prepared for the week ahead of us. The medical team labeled and packaged medications and separated everything into bins for each day. The dental team spent their time discussing procedures and protocol and packing supplies. After the packing and preping we spent the rest of the afternoon just hanging out and fellowshipping. After a lovely dinner of Nicaraguan spaghetti and fresh fruit, we had a team meeting with Dr. Medina (a local doctor who will be working with us some this week and who also set up our locations for us) to discuss what we should expect this week. We are very excited about what the Lord has in store for us. We are going to some awesome places and are going to get to see alot of people.

Be in prayer for us as we start out our week tomorrow in the village of La Cieba!

God Bless,
Laura