Saturday morning we awoke to the sounds and smells of the Pacific Ocean. Kawai is located right on the beach and is used as a summer camp where children are taught God's word!
After breakfast we drove...well, the "chofer" drove and we slept...for four hours to the southern city of Ica, a desert city partially devastated by the earthquake of 2007. For lunch we stopped by our favorite restaurant, Roky's, a place famous for its delicious rotisserie style chicken.
Ten minutes outside of Ica is a small squatter village where the people have not running water. Their only source of water is the government water trucks that come by once every two weeks. They fill up anything they can, buckets, pitchers, large trashcans, anything!
We bought a water truck for only 30$ and delivered free water to the residents of this area. The students were so diligent and caring. They carried VERY HEAVY buckets full of water to the homes in the dusty town. Some up to distances of an eighth of a mile.
We prayed that these people, mostly women and children, would know the living water found through Christ alone!
After emptying the water truck, we drove another 10 minutes to Huacachina, an area of the Atacama desert famous for "carros tubulares"- dune buggies! We are still cleaning the sand out of our ears :)
-Miss Jackson
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