First Mission Trip of 2016

Mexico Orphanage Trip 

Day 1:

I can't believe I'm on a mission trip back to Mexico! Last time I did this was in 1991 with Sammash Lutheran Church.
Today started at about 6:00am. I got ready to go and head out the door at 7:00am. I met up with the Reaching the Hungry group at Pastor Carlos and Lisa's house. There I met Raul as I was walking up the drive way. Next I met Carrie, and Chloe (Carrie's daughter) inside. We got word that the church we were meeting up with was going to be about 5 hours late so we decided to pick up our van and get some breakfast while we waited. Once the other church was close to Escondido we Headed down to the boarder to pick up Mexican insurance to the churches van. We finally arrived at Door of Faith Orphanage about 3pm. Our original time was supposed to be 10am.
The weather was overcast and a bit drizzly but everyones spirits were high. As we pulled up we saw several of the volunteers greeting us. One of them happened to be Laura our host while we stayed. We unpacked and were treated to a short tour of the orphanage from Laura. Since we arrived so late we were not able to do all the things we were supposed to do (full tour and meet the children).
The orphanage was amazing! It did not look like what I was expecting at all! It almost seemed like Disney Land. Long buildings with different shaped styles of fronts distinguishing each section from another. There was a wide main street with building on both sides and colorful signs pointing you to places like the barber, dinner hall and more.
After the tour we went back to our campsite, ate dinner and prayed. Then headed back down to the cafeteria to host a movie night for the children. We had to move chairs and tables. Put together bags of popcorn and red licorice to be passed out before the movie. While setting up I met my first few kids. The first one was Jesus. I was able to talk to him since he knew english. The second child, Raul, only knew a few words in english. Raul taught me how to say popcorn in Spanish which unfortunately I quickly forgot.  The third child I met was David. I wasn't able to speak much with him so our conversations was more like... David handing me an empty bag of popcorn (more, please?) So I respond "of course! then pointing to where all the full bags of popcorn were.
The movie we saw was really good. It is called Hero 6. The church that meet up with us brought that down to use to show case how Jesus loves us and is with us where ever we are. I think they did pretty good. At first I had a hard time of seeing how they could compare. But, by the end of the movie I understood.
Once the movie was over we cleaned up, ate dinner and went to bed.