Wednesday update from Peru

A brief lesson that we learned first hand on the job site yesterday:  On Tuesday the girls were taken from us to work with the Girls Club that meets on site on Tuesdays.  The older girls in the morning and the younger girls in the afternoon come on site and have a devotional, play games, eat, etc.  There is a group of students from Azusa Pacific University who have been working with the Girls Club and the Boys Club on Wednesdays and doing a lot of the programming, and our girls were able to work along side them for the day.  That left us short handed even while we did have some of the guys from Azusa helping us.  Needless to say, we didn't get nearly as much done as we had hoped, nor did the work go as smoothly; we were missing an important part of our team.  The Bible talks about the Body of Christ not being all ears or all noses.  Some of us have to be those parts, but there are other needs in our body.  Our team consists of people who are brains, muscles, organizers, hole diggers, perseverers, fine tuners, etc.  When we are all present, we are complete and we function as God intends for us to function.  We were missing key people during the build that day. We had the muscles to get the pieces in place, but most of the guys have large hands and can't get their fingers into all the places that need nuts and bolts.  There are several of the girls who have smaller hands and are able to do those jobs, but they had gone missing for the day, and as a result, we lacked the production we had experienced on Monday and that we experienced on Wednesday when the "body" was complete.  Just as the Body of Christ doesn't function optimally when we all try to be the nose or the hands or the feet, we can't do the build efficiently if we are missing body parts.  If the body of Christ were all feet how would the mouths be able to go out and spread the Good News (plus we'd look like Dufflepods).  If the Body of Christ were all thumbs, nothing could be accomplished.  We have two more days before our scheduled inauguration party for the swing set and as long as our Body isn't dismembered again, we will be able to have something special for the kids to play on (and we'd like to have it finished so the Azusa team, who've put in a lot of sweat equity, can see the finished product as well).

Ciao,

Charlie Walker 

All is well with the team. We are working hard and should be done tomorrow with the build (we hope). Rob