making connections...

The culture and way of life in these towns of the Valleys of the North are very particular. They are very much small town ways of living. Its normal to leave your doors unlocked all the time and people are just trusted, bikes are left outside of the neighborhood grocery. There's a trust within the families as well, where the kids can roam free to all of the other houses in the town.

One of our daily walks to visit houses.

Along with that comes a curiosity when new people come to town. We would be walking down the street and meet new people all the time, especially the kids. They would come up to us and ask what we were doing, who we were, or why we were visiting their town. My favorite thing to do was to ask the kids who came up to come along with us to invite for the film projection we were going to do that day. They would come with us and of course knew everyone in town so they could tell us who lives where and how many kids lived in the house and all the details! It was a great way to have a mini tour guide!

 A few connections we came across, or the Lord brought our way were the son of the pastor of a church way deep in the mountains who got us connected with his dad, Marcelina who works in the Municipal center as the Secretary for the Council of Women, and the bakery's owner told us of a family in need who lives up in the mountain in tents.  They don't receive any help from the town because they don't support the government, so some of the guys on our team paid them a visit to share the gospel with them as well as leave them clothing donations.  The connections were just un-ending in all of the little towns.