The Tipping Family

• amazing group of 19 from Midtown (would have been 20, allen we missed you).  I only knew a hand full of the group, so it was neat to get to know a lot of the others.
• bilingual worship is beautiful. The Sunday services we went to were in English and Spanish…both music and speaking…there was something very freeing about that.
• translating is fun! I loved getting to tell one of our folks what one of the kids were trying to communicate to them… like “are you coming back soon?”, “you have pretty eyes,” etc.
• We had never done this before really, but 4 people every night told their testimony/what God is doing in their lives, and wow, it was wonderful to be able to understand what people have been through.  Seeing God’s grace and love through all sorts of crazy things. We really bonded through this time.
• I broke as I talked with a mom of  3 in one of the villages who explained to me there was an extra little boy at her house that had been dropped off in the street the night before by his drunk father.  She didn’t know his name and he had no shoes on!  She asked if there was anything we could help get him, and we made plans immediately to bring some things back to her for him the next day. The shattering thing was the little boy never did anything to deserve this, and he was terrified. I wanted to bring him home.  But it was also amazing to watch a mom who could barely take care of her family, completely take this child in and love on him!
• I saw God’s perfect love over and over and over again.
• I saw God’s love through Delta, a 15 year old girl in Colonia Milagros, one of the villages, who I have gotten to know for 4 years now… I will share more about her soon…but we got to take her to Xel-ha on Saturday.  Xel-ha is an all natural water park that is beautiful, and I am pretty sure she has never experienced anything quite like that.

These are just a few things that stuck out, but I will be sharing more!