Slept most the flight to Manila (4 hours) I met a missionary named Raven and two other men whom I talked to for and half an hour while waiting to get through customs. We got to the guest house close to 2 am exhausted and tired we sat around abed cutting up donkeys for the team running a vbs program.
Up around 6 and breakfast at 7, the days started with the samaritana team going out and the VBS team going out. My team went out for a two hour walk visiting the local markets and street shops. While touring the area we were greeted by everyone because they like to stop and stare at the white person. We caught a taxi which dropped us off near some squatter areas.The squatter areas were far worse then what I saw in South Africa. Shacks on top of each other man made caves where many families livid. The sewage flowed openly in some parts or just underneath you. We met some families and some children. We then went to get lunch at Mark McDowells house.
We then went out with 200 wordless bracelets in order to share the gospel with the street children. We went to many different squatter areas called communities and met the children and talked with them. Most kids were dressed very lightly some kids that were 3 and under didn’t even have clothes. We spoke with both the young and then teenagers and the adults. Very hard to communicate when we only know a few tagalog words and many of the children knew little to no English. Did some handstands and handspring with the kids who loved to play. As well as talking with some carpenters and complimenting their work. The city of Manila is covered in a layer of Smaug.
One awesome takeaway from today is these bracelets and how to use them wherever I am just giving them to someone and explaining what it means. Gave them to the kids, the gas station workers restaurant workers whoever.
-JR
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