End of Day Four!!!

Hey everyone! It's Emily Karsik here. First-time blogger so excuse any errors. :D It's the end of exciting day four and I have the wonderful task of telling everyone what's happened. Today started off at 8 and by 9:30-ish, the team was packed into the 2 vans and off to downtown Stockton to explore our surroundings! Much of the team ended up at the park down the street after a morning Starbucks run. Yum! :) After a fun morning to our adventurous day, the team arrived back at the "house" around 12:45 and ate arroz con pollo (rice w/ chicken) & agua de melon (cantaloupe water) that one of the nice ladies from the church we're staying at dropped off. After we filled our tummies, the team packed up and once again headed out to get wet w/ water balloons and play fun games of soccer and basketball with the kids at French Camp (the migrant missions camp we're ministering at). Around 4:30, the team got re-loaded into the vans and went to Sonic, where we slurped on slushies and "ocean waters" with tater-tots on the sides, until around 5:30 where we once again headed into the vans and headed back to the French Camp to put on the fourth VBS. Once again, Josh lead us in a few praise songs and the kids dispersed into their various groups of monkeys, giraffes, elephants, zebras, tigers, or lions and did the lesson/craft and games. After snack time, many opportunities for fellowship were present and many of those opportunities were taken up for sharing the gospel with some of the kids we minister to. Once everything was packed up from the VBS (including the team), everyone headed out to our dear friend Gloria's son's house to have a nice meal of homemade tacos and cake (it was Gloria's granddaughter's b-day), where we at last said our good-byes and for the last time of the evening, we packed up into those white vans and headed back to the church. Now we're on our way to bed, after a wonderful debrief of sharing everything that God has done on this trip so far, and the prayers for His grace as we teach these children for the last time tomorrow. Please pray that God would continue to be gracious and give us opportunities to share the gospel more to others and also that our teaching times would be clear, and productive as we seek to teach these children the greatness of our great God. Like it is stated in Romans 10:1, "Brethren,my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation."