Day 6

Up early. And off to the village. The Lord really worked and opened the door-the mayor was getting cold feet about letting us come. When we arrived we split up-most of us started working and a few headed to the school and started handing out bags to the kids.

Then we all joined in the work. Even the mayor and several of the young guys helped with the work. Apparently we cleaned up what the local newspaper had named “trash hell.”

Amy, Patrick, and Chris-cleaning up "trash hell"

the mayor

the group heading off to clean

Once we were done we headed down one of the streets to take a look around. We met a precious old lady who wouldn’t let us take her picture. Her granddaughter was there and spoke some English so we got to talk for just a few minutes.

Then it was time for the ladies to leave and head back to the Blocks to prayerwalk. The guys stayed behind and cleaned up as much as they could along the road.

The prayerwalk was really cool. We walked from Heike’s Block to David and Katherine’s and then kept walking around the area for a while longer. When we were almost back to meet up with the group I told Amy that I wanted to sing-something specifically that repeats the name of Jesus. So we were kinda humming. I walked away from the group for a second and I heard Amy say, “oh, Amber just said that.” Turns out Sharolyn told her she wanted to sing something with the name “Jesus” in it. How cool. So we sang several hymns that just repeated the Name and marveled at how awesome our God is. A little boy was sitting with us watching us the whole time and Heike sang a song to him. Apparently he is Romani instead of Turk and everyone is really mean to him.

Then off we went to town to shop for souvenirs and chill out for a while. And back to the hotel to get ready for dinner-in other words. . . more chopska salad.

Back to the hotel for devotion and off to bed.