Hey all ;)
Today marks our first day with the mission team from First Pres, from Huntington West Virginia, their church will actually be down here two consecutive weeks, this week they will be doing medical clinics, clean water/water purification education, and bible school... And next week their construction team and bible school sports camp comes down :) it's going to be really exciting because we're going to be spending a ton of time with their sister church, so we'll be working in the same place a little longer and we'll have time to get to know the pastor and congregation even better!
We work up early this morning for final prep, beds were made, last minute items were bought and a final clean sweep was given to El Jardin, then it was off to the airport to pick up the team... It was a pretty exciting trip to the airport, a professional soccer team was coming in to Iquitos today, from Lima, they played tonight at the local stadium against the Iquitos team... I don't know who won, but I'm sure I'll find out tomorrow :) once we had collected the team it was back to El Jardin... The group immediately started unpacking... And oh boy did they bring a lot of stuff, holy cow it was crazy... They had three army ruck sacks full of medicine, and two army ruck sacks full of bible school supplies... Their water purification buckets arrived by mail beforehand... It's crazy there is so much stuff everywhere...
The medical clinic will run Monday through Thursday... In three separate villages, this team will hand out vitamins, pain relieves (ibuprofen), anti-parasite medicine, antacids, cough drops... And that's just the stuff we bagged tonight...
As far as bible school goes, I'm so excited for it :) their theme is "God is Love" and how God shows his love for us!!! It's so well planned, we're doing
At least three crafts a day, their are simple and fun for all ages, and they all use hearts, we're making heart necklaces, heart wreaths, heart baskets, we're even making heart chickens :) it's so cute!!! You can totally tell that the women who planned out the bible school is a retired elementary teacher, she's so detailed oriented, everything's organized, yet she still managed to keep everything simple and fun, it's going to be a great week, and since this is the first week where the pastor's wife isn't really running bible school, I'll be spending a lot of time working with, translating, and even teaching bible school which I'm really excited about :) so stay tuned for pictures because there bound to be pretty cute lol
The Huntington team has a whole section within whose's only job is to Deal with water safety education and water purification plans, they bought fifty personal water purification systems that consist of two buckets : a larger plastic bucket with a spicket at the bottom, and a smaller clay bucket, which sits inside the other, which actually flitters the water, it seems pretty neat, I'm sure I'll learn more details about it this week. They also have with them some educational packets, about a new system for cleaning river water, the information comes out of a Holland based research company. They say that if you place 1L clear plastic bottles on your corrugated metal roof under peak sun, for six hours the UV radiation reduces the amount of bacteria present in the water, but only after the water has been run through cheese cloth to remove dirt particles and other impurities. They attest that it does not eliminate the problem, but it does reduce some of it, and let's be honest anythings better than river water... It seems really interesting and a lot of the men working within this section have backgrounds in water purification, for example one sells industrial grade chlorine in all forms, solid, liquid and gas. So I expect to learn a great deal this week :)
Well that's it for me folks, nightty night :)
Stay tuned...
Location:Iquitos, Peru
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