CCF Floodway

Today our journey took us to CCF(Christ's Commission Fellowship) Floodway Church twice! From 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., we participated with CCF and volunteers in a medical clinic for the community. The Filipino volunteers are such a blessing to us! As soon as we arrived, we were greeted with warm smiles, handshakes, hugs and of course, water and food. Once set up, the people began to fill up the church to receive medical, dental, optical and spiritual help. My "task" for the day was to help with the children. Coloring pages, holding babies, Paul, Paul, Silas (aka Duck, Duck, Goose), crafts, games, gospel story and visiting with Filipino moms filled my day. We then returned to CCF for evening worship. Church members greeted us with "blessings" from the children (they put your hand to their forehead), handshakes and hugs from the adults. The people are so grateful for our presence and could not say thank you enough. Worship with the CCF band rocked! Such joy in their singing and playing. Vince challenged us with a message: Are we ready for Mission with the Messiah? The church members passed out bags of Green Apple marshmallow treats after the service and the hugs and handshakes continued. And of course, the picture-taking! Make sure to ask Kaitlen and Derek about that...To finish our evening, we stopped at Jollibee, which is the Filipino equivalent of McDonald's. We enjoyed peach mango fried pies, zesty cheese waffle fries, coke floats and sundaes. It really rained hard today and just started raining again. We are planning on going to Trash Mountain again in the morning to do the Jonah story with those very impoverished people. It involves driving on very muddy roads, so please pray for the rain to stop and for us to know whether or not we should attempt to drive there. Thank you for all your prayers and support. It's been awesome so far! God bless, Liz Thomas