This is Brittney! The past couple of days have been so great. Traveling to Santa Cruz, Bolivia was actually quite easy as far as getting to and through the airports. The overnight flight was a little rough for most of us and didn't come with much actual rest, but we made it!!! When we arrived on Sunday morning we were greeted by Danny, Vanessa, their son Isaiah, and Pablito- a friend from the church that will be helping the city team!! This group of people were so warm and welcoming, it was refreshing to get off of an airplane after long travels to such sweet people! We left the airport and went straight to Kairos Iglesias (the church that we will be helping with). Kairos (pronounced "ky-rose") is a German word meaning time. So the church name basically means God Time or Time with God. It was amazing to go to this church service and worship with this group that God has chosen for us to work with and for! The service was about how everything will happen in God's way in his timing. No matter what you have planned for yourself, God is going to make things happen that are for his greater cause. We have to be completely open to God and even though sometimes it is not easy, or not what we had planned, we follow his plan. We praised our Lord and worshipped. Just being in this church, the people there were so loving and grateful that we were there. I've never met friendlier people!! The rest of Sunday we went to eat and then to the house to rest and spend time together. The Pastors and their wives came to our home Sunday night. We got to know their stories and how they all came together and how they came to Kairos. We ate dinner together, shared stories, a lot of hugs, and laughter. Monday morning the City team went to the church to start getting some work done and the wells team left for the town where they will be staying (about 5 hours away from the city team). In the time we spent at the church on Monday we all got to know each other better, started to form some amazing bonds, and surprisingly got a lot more accomplished than we thought we would. We are starting to see a little bit of what God has in store for us and it is incredible to see a small piece of his great picture!!
We have more work left to do at Kairos, evangelism planned at the university, and we are leading the worship service on Wednesday night! Tons of exciting things happening. We can't wait to see what all is in store for this week and to share it with all of y'all!
Awesome!
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