National anthems and amazing dramas.

Hallo! It's Sabado!

So, I skipped out on internet time last night in favor of sleep again. But it's okay, cause I'm here now.
Hmm, so, yesterday. Yesterday in the morning we went to the World Vision storehouse in the Bronx and volunteered, something we will be doing every Friday. It was tons of fun. The people who run it are fantastic people. We unpacked a lot of boxes of medical stuff and toiletres and organized it on shelves. I tell you what, if you have even the itty-bittiest of an organizer in you, it sure does come out doing that kind of work. And it's very satisfying. The Bronx is considered of the poorest communities with the condention of people that are there, which is why there is a World Vision storehouse there. They place storehouses where the need to greatest. It was awesome seeing what all World Vision does, just in America, not to mention the rest of the world. It's cool to think about, because usually when you think of World Vision's work, you think about their work in third world countries and in helping with disaster relief, but they do a lot in the U.S too.

We were going to go to the Spanish church last night, but they ended up not having it because they were having a big youth jubilee thing today at 12, which we went to! It was super awesome, because it was in mostly in English AND Spanish, because it was to youth, who often speak English as well as Spanish, and sometimes don't speak Spanish fluently. We learned some Spanish worship songs, which we sang in English too. The focus was on missions, so that was convenient for us to be there. Pastor Judy and Pastor Margie are co-pastors of the Canaan church(the Spanish church), who partner some with Priority 1 Ministries, so we helped them out where we could. They did an AMAZING drama. Seriously, it was awesome. It depicted the spiritual warfare that goes on along with what's happening in the physical world, which is something that Mike and Carlos talked to us about when they were here. It also exemplified the making of disciples, and then of those disciples making disciples, which is so cool to think about--how your discipling and leading one person to Christ can create a domino effect. We ate a delicious dinner, and got home around 4:15.

One thing we have been doing, because of our international team, is learn the Canadian anthem, which is pretty awesome. Melanie started teaching it to us during our entirely too long Phase 10 game last night. I admit, I needed to relearn the American anthem, and since we have been teaching it to Mel, I've relearned it too.
Something funny about Mel and her Canadian-ness: She helps with the kindergartners at Operation Exodus, and so also helps with homework and such. On Thursday one of the teachers, being swamped(they have a LOT of kids), put a piece of paper in her hands and said "just have them repeat after you!" It ended up being the pledge of allegiance! So, our Canadian taught a bunch of kindergartners the pledges of allegiance. :D

Soon we are going to watch a movie, Sherlock Holmes. I'm off now so Ben can get on here. I can't wait til I have my computer so I don't hold anyone up.

Love always!