Thursday, August 6th Journal
August 8, 2009
This morning my group of guys climbed up to the top of the rocks overlooking Creel behind our hotel for our devotional time. We challenged each other with what God has been downloading as we looked out over the city and prayed.
Today’s journey is pretty much set up to be a tourist-like day. We all got in a bus after breakfast and traveled together to the Copper Canyon. The canyon is estimated to be, in the least, seven times larger and deeper than the Grand Canyon in the United States. We stopped at two different look outs, did some of our last shopping on the way, stopped at a few more places of interest, and endured a bit of rain at places, but it was a magnificent “touristy” type of a day. My brief description is way over-simplified; it will just be way easier to just share pics in this case. It was a great way to wind down from a week of ministry and hard work.
After driving around and being tourists all day, our last stop was at the children’s home, to say good-bye…
Anabelle captured the hearts of us all…
Snapping pics for memories…
And one more set of group photos…
Here’s a highlights video from our time at the Children’s Home…
That evening we got together for our last sharing time. There were lots of tears and heart-felt sharing. This trip has been so much more powerful than many of us could have ever expected. Several of our students continued sharing in their rooms past the large group time, with many more tears and hugs. From start to finish, the “I Heart: MEXICO” trip has been a tremendous adventure.
Oh, and one more thing about today… I bumped my head leaving the “el bano” (bathroom stall)… OUCH!
