Yesterday we had our monthly church service with our professional class friends at the Kienzles' house. Our time began with singing traditional Christmas carols, then Doctor (and missionary) Placido Mercado delivered a Christmas message to about 20 adults while around 14 kids colored nativity coloring pages out on the patio. Afterwards, the majority of us went out to Garaí, an Ayore village about 40 minutes from our house. Many donated money, others purchased dry goods, and all were excited to go share with the Ayore. For many, it was the first time seeing such abject poverty. Yes, poverty is all around us here in Santa Cruz. But many of them had never seen up close the living conditions of the Ayore. It was exciting to see how everyone, kids included, jumped in to help. Once we got there, we packaged bags for each of the 64 "houses" that included a chicken (which Bubba killed last week in Poza Verde - another blog post :), a 1 kilo bag of rice, a 1 kilo bag of sugar, and a bag of cookies. Then we set off to deliver the bags to each house. It was a great time for us to bless others with the message of hope during this Christmas season, and it was exciting to have our friends be excited about this kind of outreach. We hope to do more of this in the future.
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