Let the Work Begin . . . Well Sort of!!!

Well, I can see that we are officially here! I can also say that we are dead tired. Is taken as a couple days to get here, and for most of us that meant about three or four hours of sleep one night, and about two and half hours of sleep last night. So it is all we can do to keep our eyes open to enjoy the beautiful country of Guyana. Our plane left at a brisk 6:30 AM this morning, which means we had to be up and ready to go at our hotel at 3:20 AM! It is only about an hours flight to Guyana from Trinidad. That means we get to Guyana and through customs about 930 this morning. Our driver was here to meet us and we took the hour bus ride to our hotel. Many of us took just a little free time to take a nap in trying grab a couple hours of sleep just to try and get a handle on the sleep deprivation that we were all experiencing.

This afternoon we took a quick tour of our job site, and I am a little disappointed in myself that I kept my camera in my pocket and just looked at the work that had been completed prior to our arrival. However, I will make the same mistake twice! We also stopped at a nearby church and helped Shana and Kaitlin decorate the church's have basement for vacation Bible school, which starts tomorrow.

There were streamers to be strung, believes to be blown up and hung, and a variety of other materials that needed to be put in place to make for a fun environment. We are doing this vacation Bible school in cooperation with the local church ladies, so's been interesting to mix two cultures and two sets of personalities altogether to realize the vision of vacation Bible school as we had hoped to bring it to the kids. By the time we left this afternoon it looks like a pretty fun place, and I know the neighborhood kids who attend will really have a great time. I am always impressed with the creativity that people like Caitlin and Shana exhibit when you let them loose our project like this. Kids will have a great time, and the coming of Jesus is little better.

This evening there a couple kids swimming and getting cool off from the heat of the day. The most of us are hanging out in our rooms, basking in the cool of the air conditioner. We are thinking about the minimum set of tasks that must be completed tonight before we can go to bed and attempt to catch up on some that sleep that we have missed so badly, before we have to wake up at 6 AM for breakfast, and get ready to head for the job.

Tomorrow I will have more pictures and more stories to tell. Check back in each day for the latest on this mission project for which we have had the honor to participate.

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