Hello everyone!
Today was our last day of projects and Kids Club/VBS, and it was great! You can find the Day 7 Photos here. Groups washed hallway walls in the mission, assisted with rooftop gardening tasks, finished bolstering a deck of a treehouse at Fuente Church, and put on an awesome last day of Kids Club. Students helped with games and Easter egg races/"hunt." Mrs. Huber shared the Easter story, and the children made shrinky dinks where they traced their handprint on special paper, colored it, wrote their names, and then the papers were put in the oven for about 45 seconds to shrink. The kids loved them. We ended with a BBQ in the park for all the kids and families. We had 200 hot dogs, several trays of watermelon, bags of chips, and several cookies; all were gone by the end! We pray that families will come to know Jesus and will check out Fuente Church across the street from the park.
Several little kids came to the rooftop to play games and listen to music after dinner, which was unexpected and unplanned on our end, but our students enjoyed the time to play with the kids. We then had our devotional time in the chapel downstairs where we heard from Mrs. Lily. Most were present, but eight students actually were stuck on an elevator when they were heading down from the rooftop, so the fire department came to their aid. The students were fine. They actually prayed together and just talked and reflected on experiences this week! Surprisingly, mostly everyone still took the elevator on the way back up after our time together. Before leaving our devo time, though, we all wrote our names and the names of those who have made an impression on us this week on a wooden cross we brought from school. We will be praying for the people we met here in LA.
The night ended with ice cream for a job well done this week and a visit from the volunteer manager at the URM and her service dog (in the photos). We will wake up at 6am to pack up everything, have breakfast at 7am, and then head to the Griffith Observatory for a final look at Los Angeles.
