Sunday started with breakfast at the hotel and then a trip to the market to get the crew acclimated to the culture. The market is a favorite place to start our trip as the vendor's open air stalls have a very different feel to shopping than what we are used to in the US. It's closer to a swap meet than going to the mall.
Outside of the Mercado Obregón
So many colors and textures
Julie being attracted to all the shiny toys
After picking up some fresh mangos and avocados for our next few breakfasts, we drove to the Instituto Adonai. This is the school where all of the kids in the Grupo Amor orphanage system attend school. The outdoor gym holds about 300 seats and has plenty of room at the later 10:15am service. Stephan, the foreign mission coordinator, says that the busier service is the 8am service. But none of us in the group are that great at early mornings if we don't have to be up.
Church service held in the school gym
After church, we invited the whole Grupo Amor head staff out for lunch. It isn't often that all the lead couples of the group homes get a chance to be together as an entire group. We've become quite fond of hosting this time for all of the house parents to sit together and have a large meal together.
It takes a long table to seat 40 people
Julie loving on a very pregnant Carmen, house mom of Golandrinas
The Entire Lunch Group
And after lunch, we took the group to tour the main house, Matriz. There were lots of happy embraces and impromptu singing and games. It was exciting to see the kids again and get ready for the week ahead of us.
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