Team Dinner

Tonight we met for a team meal where the rice, beans, carne (meat), pollo (chicken) abounded! We were joined by "Jen" who has been living in El Salvador and has been part of the Alliance El Salvador church for the last several years. She filled us in more details between mouth fulls of fresh salsa and chips.

For example, we learned that we will have two times where we'll be hanging out with the kids in the orphanage. She warned the guys that the kids will flock to us as they are starved for good male attention. While we may not be able to speak fluent Spanish, we will be able to extend arms of love to these kids.

We also learned that our first day will be a marathon: flight arrives Sunday morning at 8:00 AM, we drive about 40 minutes to the apartment where we'll be staying and drop off our things and fill up our water bottles (yes it is purified) and head to a large church gathering where friends and family are invited for this special day. We'll help out with the kids and other things. After services we'll have lunch with the Salvadorians and then have an afternoon filled with hanging with the "youth" who are aged 13-27 and single.

At 4:00 we'll go on a prayer tour as we drive through and pray through the areas where we'll be serving during the week. We'll end up at the apartment for dinner and an orientation of the week, followed by a debrief of the team...and needless to say fall into bed exhausted at the end of the day!!!