Comments from Rebekah Haynes, Vice President of the Joshua Squad, Belhaven College chapter:
Wednesday, May 21st
Today we woke up around 7 and had breakfast at Karen Hill’s house (where the girls are staying). I gave a short devotional, mainly sharing Galatians 6:9 which says, “Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not grow weary.” This was especially encouraging because every one of us were exhausted and some of us were even discouraged about not getting to spend more personal time with the people we were trying to witness to. This verse just really helped us remember to keep our attitudes right and not give up becuase we were doing God’s work – and that’s exciting! So, we left for Corozol Community College and preformed for our biggest audience – about 700 students. They responded very well to our performance and were very interested in tlaking with us afterwards. We talked for a few minutes, but soon had to leave for our next school, Orange Walk Elementary. The kids enjoyed the performance and were eager to be involved in our workshops following that. They were all very sweet and overall the Squad did a great job of interacting with them. Next, we had a short afternoon break, followed by supper and traveling to our third performance for the day – Calcutta Missionary church. We arrived quite early and no one from the church was there yet, so the Squad had some fun taking group and individual pictures in a cement construction zone attached to the church (soon to be their new sanctuary). We had a blast just hanging out and taking many wonderfully silly pictures. The whole time, we were joking with each other about how funny it would be if the cement construction zone, with its rocks and rusty nails and cender blocks all over the place, was where we were performing. Well, what do you know? Tha pastor showed up and informed us that it wsa indeed where we were performing – how funny! Once, it was swept it wasn’t too bad – no injuries or anything. The church members seemed to really appreciate us coming and we had a great time talking and hanging out with the afterwards. Then it was back to the clinic for bedtime – yay! What an exhaisting but utterly fulfilling day.
Friday, May 16th
After our flight was cancelled yesterday, our next option was to fly out of Monroe airport (about 2 hours away) the following day. So, we all woke up bright and early and left from Belhaven at around 5:30 a.m.. Former Joshua squad leader, Jonathan Lowery was nice enough to take us in his van to the airport, giving us “words of wisdom” from his past experiences with J-squad mission trips – Thanks Jonathan! So, we check in to the Monroe airport adn play the movie quote game for almost 2 hours until its time to board the plane. Everything goes according to plans, and we land in Houston with plenty of time to eat and shop until our plane leaves for Belize. We land safely in Belize, get though claims with only a few questioning looks and comments ( mainly…”I wonder whats with the purple hats?”) Then we find Deanna, her father, and Lupe (in charge of mission teams that come in to Belize). We load in our “tour bus” (a big white van that we used throughout the trip) and head through Belize city to chack out the church that out final preformance at the youth rally will take place. We meet the pastor, who was so very friendly to all of us, and then continue on our bus ride for about two hours to Lupe’s house. Lupe’s wife, Gloria, had so generously prepared burritos for all of us. We all ate – a lot. the boys actually had a contest to see who could eat the most. I think Brandon and Lex tied. All of us were fascinated by the oversized Coca-cola bottles they had there. Little did we know then that we would drink one with almost every meal in Belize! We then headed to the clinic and settled down for the night. We were in another counrty, and the adventure was about to begin!
On Wednesday, Kristi Colvin’s notes will grace this page.
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