Whitefield Academy Ecuador Mission Team

Wednesday, June 19

Building Relationships

Wednesday was a very full day for us. We arrived

at the school and were greeted by some very happy faces on the school’s playground “patio” where we once again presented more clues in order to help the audience get closer to understanding or solving the mystery of who God is. 

Our welcoming audience was very responsive to the questions our Detective Do Tell (Kathryn Bracher) asked as our skit rolled on. Many of the kids talked about the clues in the skit such as the Bible, a crown, a heart, and the manger all pointing to Emmanuel. We hope and pray that on Friday we will see the evidence that many hearts were stirred this week.

Classes went on comfortably and the EMT members seemed to be in the swing of things as I passed by to check on who needed any help or resources. The story of the paralytic man was coming alive in classrooms via some very dynamic means. The kids were eager to act out the story and even complete short and long passages of the story which challenged their English vocabulary at times. On the playground I was blessed to see many instances of bonding taking place between EMT members and FAE children. It is wonderful to see how many of these kids connect with and look up to our EMT members. Frankly, I can’t wait each day to hit the playground with them daily. We are praying for these kids all week. We are aware of some of their needs and although we can’t make their challenges go away we are here, and we offer a friendship built on the love of God.

During the afternoon sessions we continued to impress upon them the importance of making the rig,ht decisions as it relates to respect for authority, dating and relationships and drug and alcohol abuse. Their questions in these sessions were very insightful and we made every effort to steer them right with practical responses and biblical references. 

We caught up with Janey Fugate (’11), EMT alum and sister to Alice Fugate (11^th) for dinner at Pim’s restaurant in the city. No one complained of any serious injuries before or after dinner. Grace did hurt her shin playing more soccer right after lunch so we took care of that as much as we could before dinner. She complained of some discomfort but being the trooper that she is she did not let that hinder her from making it to the bus on time for our ride to dinner.

Thanks again for your prayers, I can feel them. Until next time…peace unto you all!  

Opal