What does a day look like on a Shelter team?
It looks like getting ready to leave for breakfast at 7am.
It looks like sharing a meal and devotion with our team (a good reminder that we “get to do this”) and then getting ready to travel to the community by 8am.
At 9am we arrived after travelling down the highway, driving through the traffic of a small city, Santiago Nonualco and transferring everyone to the back of the cattle truck to drive the rest of the way, up and down the steep hills and valleys into the community where our first family was located.
It looks like digging holes and drilling walls together under the heat and humidity of a 40 degree Celsius blue sky day.
It looks like playing with kids, colouring with kids, painting nails, laughing as we build and celebrating the finishing touches.
It looks like sitting with a family and being moved by the palpable relief and release of emotion, knowing that they finally have a safe and dry home.
It looks like the reminder that God is merciful and is an abundant provider.
It looks like dirty, smelly, tired people making their way back to the hotel.
It looks like dinner together.
It looks like memories shared.
It looks like games played.
And it looks like we’ll be thankful that we get to do it all again tomorrow.
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