Ministry in Montevideo

Hola everybody, this is Jake. Today after a couple of hours at the clinic we decided to journey to the town plaza to perform some dramas. The trip was about a 30 minute walk from the church.

(Paul carrying the cross on our walk.)

When we arrived there was a big sidewalk intersection right in the middle of the plaza filled with busy people. There was a small stage in one of the corners of this intersection. We performed every skit that we had with the exception of "Sin Bucket".







The dramas went smooth except for the dog poop that "somebody" tracked onto the stage. I wasn`t affected, but uh Austin... ya she attracted some poo-poo along the way. After we performed we walked around the plaza giving stickers and balloons to every kid that we saw. We also passed out invitations to our clinic. We ended our quest with a few of us a bit discouraged but maybe a person passing by heard just the little bit they needed. Well need to get in bed, got another clinic tomorrow bye, oh YA when we get back; if your lucky, ill MOONWALK for you.

Ciao



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Hello friends and family!! This is Tayler! Today in the afternoon we visited a park that was right across the street from our clinic. This park was equipped with the usual playground things: swings, see-saws, and a small basketball court. When we first arrived we made some balloon animals for the kids and prepared for our first drama called the Chicken Skit.







In this skit we all pretend to be different things (mainly animals) and Jake, the chicken, perched high on a swing, making the whole audience laugh. After that drama, we did three others. Other than the girls and guys from the church, there were not many other people at this park. At the end of our dramas, Jerry and Leah decided to teach us the Doctor´s Office skit, in which everyone has different symptoms. Symptoms included itching, coughing, puking, sneezing, and laughing and screaming uncontrollably. I loved it!

Greg (Jesus) & Co. during the "In the Beginning" drama

Tayler is blind...in "Blind Lead the Blind" drama

Scene from "In the Beginning" Note the creepy guy in the back!

When we finished, we passed out flyers for the clinic and invited some people to church. Then we left the park and went back to the clinic at the church. There, a few of the girls from the church wanted to teach the team a dance that they had made up. So, our willing team (the girls and Jake) got in line and learned a part of the dance. It turned out to be a lot of fun and we were glad to spend a little time with the girls. We then had a service with worship, dramas and prayer. It turns out that although there were few people at the park that afternoon, one lady accepted our invitation to come to the service! Even when we didn´t really feel like anyone was listening at the park, the Lord touched someone´s heart and brought them in. He is so faithful! We had a wonderful afternoon spending time together and sharing God´s truth and love.P.S.: By the way mom, Jake and I did not ditch you... you guys just didnt come with us! :P(oh ya and I miss you haha)

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Well hello there, this is Angel here and I am going to be telling you a little bit about what we did tonight. Tonight after our church service we went back to to the plaza that we visited earlier today to do some more dramas. We decided to go back at night because in Montevideo, thats when the people come out. Here in Montevideo people stay out late, eat late, and commute late. Edi, our friend from the church who has been with us of the majority of our trip, decided to provide our crowd pleaser-gatherer for tonight. Among his many talents, including worship leader and interpreter, can also breathe fire!

It was amazing but the kerosine made the bus smell quite stinky if I do say so myself. After the breathing of fire we did some of our dramas. We did doctor's office, sin bucket, hats, blind, and In the beginning. Athough while we were doing our dramas the people in the plaza seemed more interested in what they had already been going about. Even though people in general weren´t very interested we still had a small crowd who were watching. We had to leave right after our dramas because of time constraint but we touched a few people and thats all that matters. So I would consider tonight a success!

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Hola, this is a blurb from Leah...

we want you to know that a few on the team are feeling under the weather, so please please pray for them to recover fast! (and that the rest of the team remains well and healthy).