Friday

Friday morning in Leon, I got our fund raising DVD put onto Vimeo divided into chapters. We are hoping they will be on the NewSong website soon. I worked more on emails and ran some errands in Leon before our staff meeting at 10:00 AM. We talked about our upcoming week schedule and divided our work for who sees over each project when the Gables are gone to the states from mid December – mid January.

Sergio, Tommy, and I went out to Candelaria for the afternoon. I packed the entire truck bed with the rest of my stuff and put it all into 1 room of the clinic. We had planned to start Friday night youth services today, being the first Friday in December, but some of the youth thought it’d be better for us to have a pre-start back meeting to share their hearts with each other and get any problems they have had between each other settled.

Tommy and I shared our vision for a new, more impacting Friday Night Youth Service, not just babysitting, then Darling and Itzel led the meeting representing their groups. Carlos shared with them about his drama and dance goals. Two of the young men got in an argument and left the church building to fight, but we got settled down and Carlos helped our group understand that we must get along. He led a time of us praying for each other as a group and individually to close out the meeting.

Friday night I visited with Nubia and Kenia. We did not have any plans, just shared stories and talked. It was a good time to be relational and talk about serious things and also just joke around and laugh with each other, enjoying friendship. I laid a mattress on the floor of the clinic and slept in the back room.