Zapote Day Care Center

Today we were gifted to visit the town of Zapote. We began our journey in our van for an hour and then transferred into four-wheel drive pickups to traverse the rough terrain and four river crossings. This area of Guatemala’s country side is quite rural as we only saw people upon occasion as they also traveled this rough road. We were struck by the local people's incredible capacity to work this land. We saw some fixing the roads or carrying huge bundles of wood. Each one on their local journey…

As we arrived at the school we were greeted by cheers of gringo, gringo’s from behind the gates. Every sweet child was smiling and cheering. What a reception… We proceeded to inside the school grounds and were greeted with hugs and playful balls bouncing around. We saw two groups of about 40 kids and had a blast working through a craft with them about how God created the world in seven days. They sat intent waiting on our every word. What a joy to spend time with these precious kids. We left handing out some candy and then tossed some we had left to the kids along the way back to the Oasis.

Our day continued with more work till around 7pm and then a hot meal of chicken, salad and rice. God is truly at work here not only with these kids but genuinely in each of us.