Michigan Mission Team Visit - part 1

A team of 9 people from Lakeside Bible Chapel and Dunning Park Bible Chapel traveled to be with our church in La Calera for 9 days. It was a great time of fellowship and serving the Lord together. 

The main purpose of the visit was for the team to help our church hold a vacation kids' program. The children in our town all had school holidays for the last week of June and into the second week of July. So it was an ideal time to feed them a hot lunch, give a Bible lesson and shower them with love. Most of the adults in our congregation work full-time, so it would have been difficult to pull off without the outside help! 

(we went with a world cup theme!)

On one of the outreach days local barbers gave the kids free haircuts!

 

Here are some of our local people who helped in a myriad of ways too:

 

 

The team participated in all our church meetings, we all enjoyed the bilingual worship and prayer times together.

 

 

 

We had a special day with our local youth and the team treated them to lunch in a nearby town at a fancy mall!

 

With the young adults we had a game night.

 

 Colombians and Venezuelans show their love through food - so there was lots of it and a good variety of specialties from both cultures. The team stayed in homes of the church people and so each group experienced different breakfasts, often with arepas and tropical fruit. (There were also breakfast soups and tamales on some of the menus!)

 

For the longer drives between Bogota and La Calera we hired a mini-bus with driver to get us around. 

 

And for the shorter drives we used any available cars (ours was in the shop most of the trip!) or the local public buses.

 

 

 

 

Before we knew it, it was time to say goodbye to our new friends!

 

 

See next blog posts for:

• the meaningful visits we made to the homes of the outreach families

• the work we did sprucing up a nearby Basketball court