25th June Update

Hello. It has been a really good week this last week.

On Friday we ran the kids club at Cajepe. This was really fun and the children seemed to enjoy it. The craft we did was making a small box out of card that we put a Bible verse inside and we put a small chocolate football inside with it too, just to keep with the World Cup spirit. We also played a few games, including skipping, which is suprisingly fun. After that we showed the children a small drama based on Joshua and the Great wall of Jericho. We used rolled up card as trumpets, an idea that we took from the last Latin Link team that came to help this church. In the evening we had a short service at the Cajepe church instead of a evangelism service. After that we went to the Cajepe Church pastor´s house for pizza. His wife had made all of the pizza´s and they were really nice. It was good to talk to them more and get to know them a little bit better.

On Saturday, Me and Beth went to the pastor of Cajepe´s house to learn a couple of Brazilian songs. He taught me how to play a song on the guitar and how to sing the words. I already knew the song a little bit because I had heard them sing it in church before. We learnt the songs and then sung them at a church service at the church we live above. This was really nice because the church sung along with my singing, which i have not experienced for a while. A couple of the team did not attend this service beacuse they were helping to make food for a church lunch that we were hosting the next day. There were alot of church people in the kitchen when this was going on.

The Church Lunch went well on Sunday and soon after we watched the Brazil versus Ivory Coast World Cup game. It is fun when all the Brazilians come to the church and we watched it with them. Again, Joe, James and Andrias decided to support the other team, Ivory Coast, but this time they painted there faces to look like the Ivory Coast Flag. This was very funny and it made the atmosphere all the more exciting.

James and Andrias ran there second football club in Cajepe on Monday morning. They had a good amount of children to play and it went really well.

Tuesday was Joe´s 20th Birthday. He was woken up to a pancake breakfast and fresh orange juice. In the evening we had a really nice meal, steak and chips, and then we had a few party games, including pass the parcel and a game called beat the intro. We then gave him his presents and he was very happy with them. The whole day was really fun.

Wednesday was a day when we had all of the girls on domestics, we normally have one boy and one girl on but we decided to have a day of all girls and a different day of all boys. This meant that all of the boys went to work at Cajepe in the morning. This was quite different to working with girls. After lunch, we watched the England game and we were very happy with the result. In the evening we all went to the pastor of the church we live above´s house to see a different game in the afternoon and to stay for dinner. We watched a film too and we had a great time.

Today, Friday, some of us worked in the morning. I was one of the people who went to work. We started painting the window frames and we should soon be moving onto the walls. The church is very nearly finished and i am hoping we can finish it before we leave this project.

Here are some pictures of the last week:




It is only 9 days until we leave this project and travel to Rio de Janiero, then going back home. It has been really amazing being in Brazil and I have learnt a lot through all of my experiences. I really want to make the most of the last week or so that i have here and a really hope to enjoy it. I am looking forward to everything that is to come.

Thank you for reading

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