Wednesday at La Isla

I finally made it back to La Isla for the first time since January. It is the poorest of all the villages we work in, and I am so glad I got to go back and visit. On Fridays about 15-20 youth come from there, so I get to see some people, but not any of the young kids or over 25 year olds. This is Pastor Pablos community and we are really trying to get a church or organization in the states to adopt the community.

We walked around and visited with people and came across a 16 year old mother with a very sick daughter, 17 months old. The baby looked more the size of a 6-7 month old baby, and was in very high need for attention. She has some kind of leg disability, and is in pain all the time. She has hardly any strength, and cannot even support her own head at 17 months! We spent some time praying for the mother and child, and then Pinnacle and Tim got Oscar to make contacts and got the mother money for seeing a doctor later in the afternoon.
We also visited the house of 3 of the youth group sisters, and Pastor Pablo home. I got to meet his 2 sons and wife for the first time. I had some toothbrushes and toothpaste donated from my dentist in Boone, Drs. Mayhew and Conn that I got to give out in La Isla.





From there I headed to Candelaria to meet up with Leo and start our first April baseball practice, Leo’s first paid practice. We got mesh shorts and hats from 2nd hand stores in Leon this morning and now the whole team has the correct clothing for practice. We still need more gloves and tennis shoes or even better cleats. About 3/5 of the boys wear their school shoes for practice.

Pastor Heath led the evening service, and spoke on forgiveness. A message that the villages need to hear every day because so many people there hold grudges toward each other. The smallest things that they need to let go of and move forward they hold down inside and allow it to make them miserable. Daniel played some great praise music and the Pinnacle group got to say their goodbyes. Tim played Casting Crowns-Your Love is Extravagant on guitar and Big O sang followed by an upbeat song Pastor Jose did to close out the service.