El Salvador

Leaving for El Salvador in less than 24 hours!!!!! The excitement is in the air....Thanksgiving feast is complete...it's just time to wait until we fly! I'm looking forward to seeing the kids at the Children's Home and Pastor Ben and his wife Daisy.

The team has taken the last three days to rest, unwind, and get some packing in order. It has been very good for us since we haven't had many days off in the last 3 or 4 months. We have traveled from church to church to church. to church.

We've been to
Berrien Center, MI
Flushing, MI
Wabash, IN
Poplar Bluff, MO
Marion, IL
Olive Branch, MS
Slidell, LA
Rome, GA
Milton, FL

9 different churches that we were able to serve in from September to November. We literally go from church to church. It is a crazy life when I really think about it. In the last 3 and 1/2 years the longest I've been in one location was 10 weeks and that was this past summer. I never would have told you that this is what I would be doing. :) I love teaching the kids. Also being the lead Base Camp teacher it's been fun to be able to help our new Base Camp teacher how to improve in his lessons. The main thing I've continually tried to remind him was to make the lessons his own and not to try to copy what someone else does. He's done a great job and has improved by leaps and bounds since our first two churches. I am blessing with the co-teachers I have this year.

After El Salvador I'll be waiting in the airport for about 12 hours until my flight home for December. YES! I'm going home for December and am really excited about it. I haven't seen my family since December last year. Although Kira (my big sister) won't be there I'm hoping to see her during our spring break. We will be heading out west and I'm going to look into plane tickets or train tickets to get there. It would be really neat to see her. I haven't seen her since our first year on the road.

Well...I need to get going for now. Please pray for me as I'm in El Salvador. Oh yeah. I'll be teaching through an interpreter on Sunday and at the Children's Home sometime next week. Please, please pray!

Shawntay

Chapel

Elementary Chapel! In Brownsburg, IN our team of Children's Ministers (9 of us) we able to lead chapel for the school connected with the Church. I was able to narrate a skit and Emily applied it at the end. We also taught them two songs. Below is a picture of all of us leading the kids with the motions.

This morning a girl in Base Camp shared that she was almost done looking up each one of our rules in a concordance. Our rules that we explain is Obedience, Respect, Determination, Encouragement, and Reflection. She said that there were 50 some verses on Respect...and explained how she realized that if there were that many verses on respect....God most think it's very important.

It was so encouraging to me to hear her say that.