700 Shoes and a Speeding ticket

Oh. my. goodness. This week has been joyous CRAZINESS! On Monday, we set a Buckner record by delivering 730 shoes to ONE home!! This was the home where we spent all last week. We also did VBS/crafts with the kids.It was hard to say good-bye to the kids, as we will not be back again.

This is what happens when you leave paint sitting out around 4 year olds. They covered the wall with it too. Lovely.

Yesterday we got to deliver shoes/do VBS at a home where we spent a lot of time last year. It was so fun to see familiar faces and how much the babies had grown! This is a sweet girl I connected with last year..her baby was born while we were in Peru last year, and she turns a year old today! Yesterday afternoon, we went to a very poor community center to deliver shoes. The story behind the center was so neat...a woman almost lost her son, her marriage and had cancer but survived and saw God's faithfulness, so she followed His vision to open a home for abandoned children. The kids were so happy to see us..they danced for us and threw confetti on us as we came in the door. We really feel like celebrities! :)
Today, I was reminded of the impact our daily lives make on people that we don't even realize. Last year, I bought tons of pottery at this one store and made friends with the owner, Marisol. Well, today I found her and she told me she had become a Christian because someone in our group had shared with her. I don't remember talking to her about Christ or even thinking about sharing with her...but we are "the fragrance of Christ" everywhere we go even when we don't think about it

Friday morning we head out EARLY for Cusco...after we deliver another bus-full of shoes!! Tonight our bus-full got a speeding ticket :)We are like a traveling circus/celebrities/very white people that make a scene wherever we go!