In Brazil children
only attend school for half a day, leaving many kids without an adult at home
while parents are out working. To fill
this gap for these children, and to provide opportunities for under-privileged kids,
Camp ABECAR runs a year-round camp for these kids aimed at keeping the kids off
the streets, out of trouble, and in an environment where they experience
Christ-like and loving teachers and
staff that share the Word of God with them.
Normally our team
has the opportunity to assist these wonderful teachers in their daily
activities with these children, doing games, crafts, music and just loving on
them. However, this Monday the bus
wouldn't start, canceling camp for the day.
After looking further into what it would take to fix the bus, the staff
realized that while the bus isn't running would be the prime opportunity to
replace the seatbelts to get the bus back up to city code, meaning there will
be no Making A Difference Camp for the remainder of the week.
No Making A
Difference program opened up a free day for our team to concentrate on prepping
for the program we were presenting during the week as well as working through
activities and plans for the upcoming English camp. We were all delighted when the Tarretaccas
suggested a break to go for ice-cream and coffee! Both the ice-cream and coffee were
AMAZING!! Some had pistachio, others guava,
and some stuck with traditional American flavors of strawberry and
chocolate.
And a day off
wouldn't be complete without a bit of sprucing up….so the team cleaned up the
remaining mess from camp in all the dorms and chapel.
The evening found
all of us rehearsing for the presentation at the local schools, putting the
final touches on the dramas. A theater
major was called in to help us beef up our acting skills!! Though intimidated at first, he was a GREAT
help in fine-tuning the acting skills of some not-so-professional-actors! (And,
he was a perfect excuse to order Brazilian pizza at 11:30 pm!!!)
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