Things are finally starting to get rolling. Three weeks ago we started working on our first real project in the American Mennonite school here, and we're really excited! We are organizing the library for the school, which has been in a serious state of disuse for many years. For about a week and a half we organized books into categories and threw out the old, moldy books. It was quite a chore! Among the shelves we found communist propaganda, old mouse droppings, and cockroaches. Yuck! Now we are all five of us entering the book information into Excel documents so the school has an inventory of all their books. This next week we will continue with the inventory but will also start helping out in the English classes, which I am greatly looking forward to.
In the news: tomorrow is a big day here in Colombia. It has been declared a day to oppose the FARC, which in English stands for Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The FARC has been around since the late 1960s, when liberal guerrillas who opposed the conservative government didn't want to disarm after a treaty. Today they earn money from the drug trade and are associated with the deaths, kidnappings, and displacement of thousands of people each year. Over 100 cities world wide are planning to participate in peace demonstrations, parades, and marches tomorrow against this violence, including our city of La Mesa. We plan to march with the kids from the school in a city-wide parade. Please pray for this important event as the citizens of Colombia protest the violence happening in their country. If you would like to read more, try a google search, or the event has a website (viewable in English!) at http://www.colombiasoyyo.org/english.html. Thank you for your prayers!
