Philippines Continued

Sunday - July 26



- 7:30 am corn flakes and milk for breakfast

- 7:45 am Tagalog church service and 10 am English church service at Grace from Heaven CRC

- Lunch with deacons, elders, and pastor of church

- 2 pm HIV/AIDS presentation to about 40 adults and youth at the church (great response!)

- Hang out with youth at the church

- 6 pm pork, veggies, rice, and bannanas for dinner at church thanks to the fine cooking of the deacon ladies

- Hang out with 3 of the teachers who live at the church and the school

- 10-11 pm group devos

- 11-12 pm reflections on Philippines experience with teammates

- 12 pm bedtime



Monday - July 27



- 8:30 am peanut butter sandwiches, cereal, oranges for breakfast

- 9 am - noon tour of homes in a poorer area in Manila (85 families sponsored byZeeland Christian Middle school families in Zeeland, MI)

- Noon - 5 pm Mall of Asia (tour, 1 hour of ice skating in the mall ice rink, souvenier shopping)

- Cook pancakes for dinner at the church and hang out

- Play ping pong with school janitor

- We were suppossed to be picked up to go back to Laguna but our ride got stuck in traffic for 6 hours b/c of the holiday and ended up turning around

- group devos

-11 pm bedtime



Tuesday - July 28



(Often times in transition we only see what we are leaving behind and not all the potential that God has in store for the future - keep moving forward and be still in God)



- 6:30 am wake up

- 8 am breakfast at McDonald's in Manila (rice, eggs, sausage)

- ride river boat

- Horse drawn carriage ride (our driver had to have a college education to drive the carriage. Many fast food resturants require a college education to work in them. A relative of the carriage driver pastors a church and went to jail for 15 years of his life for bad behavior before he became a pastor)

- Tour of old fort in Manila

- Ride Manila train

- Lunch at Borgyos American resturant (P295 - shrimp penne pasta)

- Tour CRWM/CRWRC Manila offices

- Visit NuRock radio station where host brother worked for a year

- Drive back to Los Banos

- 7:30 pm dinner at guest house with host family and other church youth as a goodbye dinner for me - goofy games too

- Camp fire with youth

- 12:30 pm bedtime



Wednesday - July 29



- 9 am breakfast at guest house (avacados with brown sugar and yogurt, rolls, fried egg, rice)

- Day of goodbye's with host family youth and group

- Visit old Catholic cemetary

- Lunch at local resturant (shrimp soup, rice, chop suey)

- Blue Icy and curly fries snack at McDonald's

- 6:30 pm church prayer meeting at Calamba CRC

- Dinner at host families house (noodles, rice, fish, peanut butter fudge)

- Group watched Ice Age 3 while I talked with my host parents about Grace Community Christian School (They would like for me to look for support for them back in the U.S.) and heard some of their stories

- 11 pm group devos at guest house and sharing of farewells and words of encouragement for eachother

- 1 pm bedtime



Thursday - July 30



- 3:30 am wake up at guest house for 6:45 am flight out of Manila to back home

- Drive to Manila

- 6:45 am flight out of Manila

- 11 am land in Negoya, Japan

(12 hours time difference inserted)

- 4 pm arrive in Grand Rapids, MI

- Greeted by family and friend same at airport

- 8 pm back home in Kalamazo0, MI