Josh Numero Dos

Well, our second day is finished, and it was incredible. We started off by painting two small little dorm rooms, which ended up taking the entire morning.  After lunch,we went for a nice short little swim down at the beach, and I was quickly reminded just why I enjoyed it so much the last time I was here.  Today was a local national holiday called Fisherman's Day, so the government school that we will be helping at was closed, and all eight of us had the opportunity to help run a smaller Bible club at Choppins Fundamental Church, which is where the Edwards' attend.  We had 37 kids there today, and the pastor's wife later told us that only 2 or 3 of them were church attenders, so it was a real blessing to see how much of an outreach this little tiny church had in their community.  It was also a little eye opening and convicting, because this little church with probably 50 or fewer members brought in so many outside people to one of its functions. What if our much larger American churches had that kind of influence in our own communities, that we would be able to minister to basically a second congregation that had no ties to the church or knowledge of Christ.  Just a little food for thought.  Another thing that really opened my eyes happened at the end of Bible Club.  As we were singing some closing songs, some of the Vincentian boys that i was sitting with noticed that my hair was "spiky", and they kept wanting to feel it and they were all asking me questions about how i made it like that.  When I told them about hair gel, they were astounded, and I could tell that they had never even heard of it before in their lives.  It really just goes to show how truly blessed we are in America.  Even something little and silly like hair gel that we can go to walmart and buy a whole container for like $2 was totally new and foreign to these boys.  It just amazes me that we as a nation can have so much, yet still take it all for granted and be totally uncontent.