Church and the Children

​We had the opportunity to attend two local churches in Chel. There we sang a song, a few people shared their testimonies, and Pastor Rocky spoke. It's always interesting to me to see how church is like in another part of the world. I really liked how much prayer there was during the service. Unexpectedly we also got to play with the neighborhood kids after visiting the churches and everyday! So it did take me a while for me to get my mind around this because I hadn't expected it and I'm not great with little kids. But I came around seeing how enthusiastic they were about playing simple games like Duck Duck Goose, tag, and relay races. They were still very excited even though the games we were coming up with were iterations and variations on games we were already playing. We also learned a couple of games from the kids too, kinda. One was a Simon Says like game and another was a Ring Around the Rosy Tug of War hybrid. They seemed really happy just to play. They would ask us when they saw us if when it would be time to play. They would wait for us outside where we were staying to come back from work to play with them! Special thanks goes out to our friend and coworker Javier for translating our instructions into Spanish. Thank God we were able to come up with games simple enough because some kids didn't understand Spanish (they primarily speak Ixil, a type of Mayan language).  Gordon Mark