Our team experienced a good ol' gospel worship night, some inner-city spiritual warfare, multiple prayer walks through a very run-down neighborhood, a large fire near our home, our first team trips to the grocery store, LOTS of card games, and other random service projects.
On our second day, our team handed out flyers on a 4 mile loop for a fundraiser walk. On that walk, I took several interesting pictures. See for yourself:
So... since Practicum, a LOT of things have happened.
World Awareness Week left us with only rice and beans for every meal (including breakfast), cold showers out of a bucket, washing our clothes by hand, and a night with no mattresses or electricity. As inconvenient as it was at times, it's sobering to know that our week-long project is a daily reality for a lot of the world. We ended our week with an enlightening world awareness meal in which 2 REACHers represented the wealthy population (they ate steak dinners), 3 REACHers were middle class (they ate Chinese food), a handfull of us were the working class (we ate our normal rice and beans, on the floor, with 1 spoon each, out of a large container), a few more were the lower non-working class (they ate only rice, and dirty water, with no utensils), and 3 beggars, who could only rely on the generosity of others.
We've also been doing some fun things as well: a day of cold sand volleyball, the talent show, a large breakfast (featuring lots of bacon) to bless the guys of the house, and other crazy shenanigans.
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