Day 5

Alex Jane:
   What a great day today was! It was our considered day off but so much fun! Rosie and I took a trip to the Town Centre with some of the girls that we have been connecting with and it was such a good time. I got to experience for the fist time an Argos :) It was like a drive through amazon! You simply walked in and there were catalogs placed everywhere, you grabbed one, found what you were looking for. You then got the code typed into this giant calculator looking thing to see how many were in stock. It they had what you were looking for you filled out a piece of paper and wrote down the product code, took it to the cash register and paid. Then you waited. With in the next 5 min the item that you want slides down this shoot like thing, you pick in up and leave! How cool is that? I was definitely a tourist today. I was just so amazed of this store and the variety of things that you could purchase while there.
  We also stopped by the little store that we worked in while we were there in 2008. Wow... what a transformation that has taken place there. While we were there in 08 it was simply just an empty room that had a couple of Wii's, a play station, face painting and a hang out place. Today there is like a whole Gospel presentation. Right now it shares with you the story of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ as though it was a crime scene. It was so neat to see how this empty room has changed. It also warmed my heart to the the fact that it was still there and improved, but that there were kids running around all over. One of my favorite parts was the room with the Cross and hundreds of kids prayer or even problems that they had written on a piece of paper and nailed onto the Cross. How cool is that? The fact that kids are walking in there and giving things to Christ and symbolically nail it to the cross. I would like to just pray that this little shop would just continue to grow and that more and more kids would stumble upon it will walking around the Centre, that the Holy Spirit would just pull them into that story so that they can hear the wonderful story of what our Savior did for us.
   Please just continue to be in prayer for our team as we continue to work in the schools this next week. The kids are starting to know who we are as we walk up and down the halls with a some what lost look on our face. I just pray that they would feel comfortable enough to ask us the tough questions. Also please just pray that we will be given the words and that the hearts of the children that we will be teaching this week will be opened and soften to the teaching of "Who is Jesus?" This is a great opportunity to explain who Christ is and what He has done in our life as well as what he as also done for all that believe. This trip just keeps getting better and better with more and more opportunities to show the love of Christ with all who surround us! :)
Until Next Time