Bob and I woke up at 1:10am with the house shaking again! There was another quake of lesser magnitude, 4.3, but it hit in the same area and the houses that were still standing or had anything left no longer do. Also, there where several other smaller ones through the evening before the 1:00am one hit! Everyone is a little on edge. At times it feels like the world is moving like being on a boat! Our church is planning a meeting tonight to discuss what we as a church can do to demonstrate God's love to the ones who have lost all. please pray for wisdom, as it still is very dangerous in the zone and the main bridge is cracking a bit more every day and without it, it will be very difficult to enter the area.
The last two days I have gone to Tejarcillos, a slum community, to help out with a Vacation Bible School. The children are so precious. They have these big round eyes, which sometimes look so sad and empty. Many do not have any parent around during the day as the moms have to work and there often is no dad in the picture.When this happens an older child of 8-12 years is in charge of a younger one for the day. It is wonderful to just hold them and hug up on them. We worked there for two days and the first day had about 100 children and then today we had about 200.
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