Serving in El Salvador

Along with sharing our faith two days on campus, we also spent two days serving the city. One day was full of playing and loving kids in an orphanage and the other was spent painting a school in a very poor area.
The orphanage was incredibly sad. There were newborn babies to "troubled" teens, to 12-13 year old pregnant girls. There are only four caretakers that have 75-100 kids to care for at a time! When were walked in the little boys and girls just wanted to be held. The teenage girls wanted to dance to Justin Bieber (yes, he's the teen crush there too) and have fun. We made PB&J for all the kids and I've never seen someone scarf up their food so fast We were also told that 99.9% of these kids will never be adopted because EL Sal doesn't want to look like the government can't take care of their people.

El Salvador Highlights

In March, 35 students and 7 staff from Cal Poly and UCSD ventured down to Central America for a week long mission trip. Our time in San Salvador, the capitol of El Salvador, was full of various ministry opportunities. We worked along side our STINT team (CCC 1 year missionaries) to help them establish a CCC organization on a new college campus. The colleges in San Salvador are very strategic because the few young adults that go to college are motivated to change the way their country runs.
We spent two days on campus sharing our faith, using the picture survey, Solarium. It was a nice change from UCSD that students wanted to talk to us. We would share with groups up to 10 people and everyone stayed engaged. Towards the end of our last day, Katelyn (a Cal Poly student I was sharing with) approached two ladies in the cafeteria that were killing time before their next class, Taitana and Catherine. Catherine was also fluent in English and was able to translate to her friend and us. As we continued talking they both expressed an interest in wanting to know more about Christianity and how they can have a personal relationship with Jesus. I had the privilege of sharing the gospel with them and leading them through a prayer to receive Christ! At the end of our conversation Catherine looked at me as said "thank you so much for giving up your spring break to come here to share this with us".