Above and Beyond: Gone
So, the week with Above and Beyond is over. They left this afternoon, after a great goodbye party with the church. It was a great week, and we’re glad they came. We’re pretty tired, now, though. It’s time to rest.
Above and Beyond: Day I don’t know
Oops, I forgot to post last night about yesterday. It was a great day. We went to the University of the Valley of Mexico and presented to about 300 students. The team broke out the slam dunks again, and we had the chance to share a lot with the students.
In the afternoon, we went to Instituto Kipling, where we had a 20 minute presentation to about another 200 students. It went well, and the rain held off until after we were finished.
In the evening, all of the group and students from the church came to our house, where we had hot dogs and watched the videos from the week.
Above and Beyond: Day 4
Today, Ken spoke in my class, and he explained what ministry teams are and what they do. It was a great time of dialogue with the students, and then they had the opportunity to see it in action tonight at the church.
We went to the Politechnical University, but it turns out that they didn’t do anything about the permission we asked for, so we couldn’t get into the place. We made arrangements to go back on Friday, so all wasn’t lost. We ate some good tacos, and the group did another ministry at the church.
They broke out some new basketball stunts/dunks, which was cool. We also all got into it and tried dunking off the mini-tramp. I had so much fun I want to start a dunk team myself. No…really. I do. We’ll see. Who knows what the future holds.
Above and Beyond: Day 3
We had a great day today with the group. We went down to Parque Naucalli, where we had 2 opportunities to present the ministry. In total, I would say there were about 500 people there watching and listening. It was awesome the way that the crowd came to see what was going on, and we had the opportunity to share with them. The youth group from the church did a great job of translating and getting the crowd into it, and I could notice how they are really bonding with the group.
Later in the evening, we invited a man who is a 7th degree black belt in Tae Kwan Do over to the house to talk about the possibility of starting an Above and Beyond ministry team at the church with the young people. He and his daughter also shared in the ministry today at the park. It was cool seeing them with the group from the USA.
It’s late. I’m tired. I’m going to bed. I’ll put up some more pictures tomorrow.
Above and Beyond: Tourist Day
Today we went downtown with the group. We rode the tour bus, went to the zocalo, ate tacos, went shopping, got stuck in traffic, walked a lot, and had a great time with the group from the church. I’m tired. We got home really late. There was lots of time for the group sto build relationships with each other, though.
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