Spring Break - take 2!

The week is off to a GREAT start! Just Saturday we received 16 team members here in Mexico City to help us continue to serve the poor and needy here. Over the weekend, we oriented the team, took in some sites, and prepared for this week of serving. Today we visited our first site :). After a morning worship and devotional, we loaded up the bus with the many supplies needed to provide medical, optical, hair and children services for the week. The team worked very hard and made loading the bus EASY! As we arrived on site, we gathered together to pray for the day and receive instructions. After unloading the bus, we set up four different tents under which we were able to set up areas for children, optical, and hair care. The medical area was housed inside the local community center. Today we were able to help over 70 people in the optical area and over 30 people in the medical area – for the first day this was amazing! The children’s area was full with coloring, face-painting, and some soccer games. Several of the young people serving with us also presented an educational program on dental hygiene. This has been so important to the community here and it was such a blessing to watch the children learn how to correctly care for their teeth. After packing up (in record time!) we stopped for dinner at a local restaurant for delicious, family-style fajitas. It was truly a beautiful (and yummyJ ) day!