On Monday, we walked up the hill to the YWAM orphanage to lead their regular Monday morning devotional. Since the children attend schools with double sessions, there are only about half of the entire orphans home that at any one time during the day. The teams performed all three dramas. Ben, Kayla, Carla, and Amanda each spoke to the group and shared some scripture and some personal stories and encouragement. Ben, Gillian and Micah led five Spanish worship songs and Ken shared the story of the Titanic using cool pictures on a Keynote presentation.

After the devotional, we split up into three groups. Part of the team took all of the younger kids to do face painting and balloons. Some of our girls took the older girls from the home off to a section of the center to have “girl talk” (that’s as much information as I was allowed to obtain). Kevin, Ken, Ben, and Joseph took the older boys, a local pastor who was a refugee from terrorists, and a young man who was a member of that pastor’s new church into another part of the center to have a “Grace Talk.” This turned out to be a great opportunity to answer questions and to share encouragement. Especially encouraged was Jhoan, the young man who was there with the pastor. He was struggling with theological as well as personal issues and we shared together until it was time for us to leave for lunch.

We ate at a small cafe owned by a really nice Christian family directly across the street from the center (we eat there often). After this we walked back to the hotel and boarded the bus to the downtown shopping area to buy souvenirs. We then fought the traffic up to a mall in the “high-rent” district that has a breathtaking overlook of the city where we prayed over the city and enjoyed a fun meal at everyone’s favorite, Crepes & Waffles. We were joined by two of the three boys that we have sort of “adopted”—Oskar and Felipe (Estephen was sick) and Rosita (the Mother Theresa of Medellin).