Day of Saying Goodbye

Today is the 10^th day of our trip and this is the day to say goodbye to our friends in Centro de Fe. It is always hard for me to say goodbye to people who are very close to you. Even though we are from different culture background and we speak different language, our friendship that we built in six days is incredibly strong.

The day started at 6:30. We quickly had eggs with ham and fresh fruit for breakfast and headed for Centro de Fe right after that.  The school held a closing chapel for us to have an opportunity to say goodbye. Every grad prepared its unique talent show for us. For grad 3 and 4 children, they painted 7 cards to make up the word “friends” and gave each letter a special meaning in Spanish. Like “F” stands for faith to the end, the meaning of “R” is breaking all barriers, “I” is always unconditional friends in every moment, “E” is extending your hands with love, “N” is don’t expect anything in return, “D” is they give all their love for you, the last letter “S” represents only a friend gives everything for you.      

 

For grad 8, five girls prepared a wonderful dance for us along with a Christian song, expressing their passion to God and their love for us.

 

Our team also shared some bible verses with the whole school and did our school theme song “Build Your Kingdom Here” and another Spanish song. We were so thankful the big welcoming from Centro de Fe and all the students’ full participation. Through God’s love, we were able to bond together and share our love.

 

After lunch, we did some desk painting with students from grad 11 and we also painted a mural on the wall in the school as our special memories. We drew the national flag of Canada and Nicaragua on wall and everyone wrote name and left footprints. Every piece of drawing was our precious memory.     

God’s love enables us to love our brothers and sisters in Christ. We teach, encourage and rebuke. We weep and rejoice.  After we’ve experienced God’s love, we then can learn to give love” let us love one another, for love one another.” The love we give and receive is tender, tough and supportive.   God is big on relationship. I will not forget this trip in Nicaragua and these students and teachers we met and loved.