we had 85 people at our first night...when Linda and i went to get soft drinks and chips/cookies she said i was getting to much, but it was ok becasue we could use them next week...turns out we didnt have quite enuf but it was ok...we were thinking about 50Oscar got a taxi to run grrups in from and back to Santa Matilda and La Isla. They really enjoyed ti and we asked if they want to continue coming..they said they would love to come back every week.
I am using the first wire i got to cover food and taxi service...the food was 26 and the taxi was
21...this will be a weekly expense but i feel that the youth is my primary focus at this point and we will need a little more food and drink next time..so more or less $55 a week will go to friday night youth group...thanks to all that have already contributed to this fund.Last night and probably from now on, with a few changes to what they like better, we do games and contests, dance offs, schrades, other ice breakers from 6:30-7:30..at 7:30 i will show videos and pictures of things around the villages from the previous week...and some other fun things on the computer...7:50 worship
Our praise band is Tommy on drums, Herman and Nidia's dad on guitar, Daniel on keybaord and vocals, and 4 youth girls singing as well...Alfredo and Rigaberto run the sound board, and Scarleth and I run the powerpoint...i think Alex and Rigaberto are very interested in the powerpoint and other computer things...and i hope others will want to learn because int he future computer school is my ultimate goal...right now the band (Daniel and
Nidia/Hermans dad only know the 5 songs we did last night) but we are starrtin Sunday afternoon practice of new songs as quickly as Scarleth and I get the powerpoint lyrics translated to Spanish.Worship is abotu 20 mins and the youth is waving colorful flags singing dancing clapping along..very alive and great!
We follow the worship by opening in prayer, then a lesson...last night i spoke on teamwork and discipline with Scarleth translating...Then around 8:30 we asked them to get into groups of 7 and talk with each other personally for about 8 minutes and then have one person in each group pray for the rest of their group...Then I closed in prayer as a whole and we enjoyed snacks and drinks and broke down the front.
It was great, but it was our first time and we will learn from it and adjust in our youth leades meeting sunday at 12..it is myself sccarleth and 10 of our most involved youth (Joses daughters, Bismark, Saul, Alfredo, Rigaberto, Tommy husband of Maryuri)Leaving now to be back there from 11-3 today...youth soccer game for myself and Linda is teaching a dance class...hope you all have a great day..i will add soem youth photos soon and it will have a lot more content on the .info website soon
Have a GREAT weekend!
Diego
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