Thursday, August 21, 2008

Mission Impact Day 3

On day 3, we went back to the Baptist Children's Home and got to hang out with the international kids. We played soccer, (actually we ran around in circles chasing the ball as the kids dribbled and passed around us with such ease that you would have thought they were playing with walruses). We finally split up our teams so they had some of our kids with their kids. Then the games were a lot closer.
We also played some water baseball with them. That was a game I learned at Camp Tejas and it's basically baseball with the bases being kiddie pools. It was so hot that day that everybody liked jumping in the pools to cool down.
We ate hamburgers and hot dogs with everybody and had a fun time trying to speak Spanish to their guys. Again, all of our kids did great with talking and playing with these guys. They were so happy that we were there and gave everybody hugs as we left.
Then we went to the San Antonio Food Bank in the afternoon. Did you know that San Antonio has the largest population of people who don't know where their next meal is going to come from in the United States. The food bank feeds 25,000 people a week. It's a huge job, and it was great to be a little part of helping them out. We had some people sort food and check to make sure it was o.k. We had some others who put food in boxes to feed a family of 4 for a week. The people who sorted had a hard job. They went through boxes and cans of food that might have maggots in them. One girl picked up a box and a rat jumped out. Everybody ran around screaming. It was hilarious.
Zack and Issac took out trash. They would take the bad food and weigh it, then put it in a compactor. When they turned on the compactor it would shoot out this horrible liquid and a smell that no one would ever hope to enter their nostrils.
By the end of the day, we had boxed about 7,000 pounds of food. Issac and Zack threw away 2600 pounds of bad food. And there is no telling how much food the others went through and sorted. We basically helped feed 600 people for a week. I think this was our best day.

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