Band of Survivors Team Update 15 - Monday, July 7



Today was our Sabbath Monday which to me was well needed after a very hard working Sunday at East Chicago. It’s very exciting for me to be at a corps on Sunday morning and experiencing the holiness meeting with the soldiers and see how they worship the Lord. I also crushed my big toe with heavy drum equipment that day which thanks to some ice and some Advil I was fine and could walk. But enough about Sunday, I’m updating about Monday. I woke up and went straight to my prayer shift at 10pm. There were rumors of pancakes but I decided to skip them and sleep and then go to my prayer shift. I was blessed and then I joined the rest of the group for our morning worship. We sang songs and then prayed the bible. It was a nice change to one of my prayer shifts and it was good to worship and pray with everybody else. After, I finished my prayer shift and went straight to lunch where Mike had prepared, by himself, ravioli for the masses. Only 14 showed up. People were still full from breakfast and I wasn’t feeling all that hungry either. I ate a little though in spite of myself. Later I still couldn’t take a shower because we had Salvationism class. We are still learning about the INSANE book and today it was about how Salvationist changed the gruesome condition of England’s sex trade and a little bit about Booth’s In Darkest England. We ended up discussing about some the real dark issues of our society today. It was nice to see all of us together discussing about how we, as Christians and as Salvationists, could or should change conditions. After Salvationism Class, I finally got ready and we had cell groups. After cell groups, we had extra time to do stuff before Dinner. I called home to check up on the fam and later went to check on Dinner. Here is what happened in Dinner. Some of the girls decided to make flautas (also known as tacquitos) for everyone as well as red rice and beans. 4 flautas each. That’s about 80 flautas. We found ourselves at 6:00 and we realized that yeah. We needed more time. The rice was a little overcooked or undercooked. Me and Lilly were unable to save it but we ended up making 70+ flautas which needless to say we all enjoyed. Thanks to Maggie, Lilly, Alejandra, Lemard, and Ryan. I was then told that I always smell good. And that was nice. After Dinner we wrapped some things up for VBS this week at the Midwest corps and then had a leaders meeting. I am very excited about this week and how the Lord will use us in a corps that is truly in the middle of the least, the last, and the lost. Continue to pray for us and that the Lord may be manifested fuller in and through us, that we may be love for these children. Thanks

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-Andres Villatoro