Sunday, January 28, 2007

Missionaries in action

We finally got some pictures (okay, over 200 at once - it's feast or famine here) of the girls' missions trip to Paraguay. This is a shot of most of the nearly 50 young people who served in the Paraguayan heat.


Summer was on a team that did dental care, including teaching the children how to brush their teeth and to give away free toothbrushes. Although this part of the ministry was not highly evangelistic, it was part of the overall effort to care for the person in a tangible way, not just to offer salvation. Summer's particular role was to hand out brushes and to play the part of a toothbrush in the puppet play about taking care of your teeth. Of course, adding to the challenge was the fact that Summer had to say all of her lines in Spanish.


Kilah got to be a part of the drama team, which thrilled her to no end. To think that one can do acting as a missionary... Her drama team consisted of (from back left to front left) Eve, Satan, two demons (Kilah is the one on the far right), Jesus (with the cross on his cheek) and Adam. Their skit had no words, but was set to some very moving music. On three separate occasions the skit had to be cancelled because it was deemed to be too intense for the younger children in the audience. Aparently the demons and Satan were doing their jobs a little too well.

This is the group of PACA students that went on this trip (and the only native English speakers on the team). In addition to Kilah and Summer are two girls from grade 9 & 10 plus Kilah's friend Emily (lying on the rest of them) and Mrs. Zuercher (Emily's mother) who acted as the chaparone for our group.