Highlights From Brazil - #2

I know it has been almost 2 weeks since the last post I made about Brazil. Since then, both Zach and I have started school. I am so thankful that I was able to go on the trip right before school started. It has helped me to see my job as a mission for sharing the gospel in Orlando.

This journal entry is about the favela we went to for VBS, the City of God. In the past two years this favela has seen amazing amounts of restoration. It was very exciting to hear about from the missionaries who have lived and worked there for so long.

"The kids were so excited to see us today. Several remembered our names: Annie, Vivian, and Estella. We focused on the story of the feeding of the 5,000 today during VBS. It is still so heart breaking to see these kids in bare feet and dirty clothes. There is so much garbage in the 'streets'. The homes are made of broken down shakes, several don't even have doors. There was a very little girl, probably no older than 2 and 1/2 who was coughing pretty badly. She wouldn't talk to me, so I just held her for a while. Her head was very hot so I talked to one of the missionaries about her. He said he would make sure that she got medicine tomorrow. Ana told me later that she had a very sad family history, but didn't elaborate any more than that. It was hard leaving her, not knowing what or whom she was going home to."

I unfortunately do not have any pictures of the favela we were working in yet. But here is a picture of one that was near where we were staying.