Operation LIGHT in Colonia Antorcha

**Response to prevoius post***
Ok, I know the last post was a little heavy, but ministry in Tijuana is not all building houses and teaching children. Maybe it seems like a hopeless situation in Zona Norte, but I believe our hearts must break for the things that break God's heart.

If there was any confusion, I was not there alone or just with one other person, but with a group of about 20 students and staff from the base. It is a ministry that has been going on for over a year now, and last week was my first time going.***

Ok, on to lighter things... This weekend we has a mini-outreach to Colonia Antorcha, where we do the Circulo Andante teaching ministry. It was the first time we had worked with the local pastor to have a program in that community. We had been telling the kids for about 2 weeks during Circulo that we were going to have an event on Halloween and they were all excited and invited even more kids than we have in Circulo. Over 100 people from the colonia came, it was great!

To start, we had a short program, with songs, dances, puppet shows, dramas and a message from the pastor there. Halloween in he north of Mexico is combined with the Mexican holiday of Day of the Dead. It's a very dark holiday that focuses on death, and we wanted to have a celebration there of the light of Christ. Here's a video of us singing a song called "Tanto tanto", and the song says "we have so much to be grateful for... our friends... our parents... Jesus." We had so much fun dancing and singing with the kids.

Also, after the program, as the sun set and it got dark, we set up some lights and had a carnival on the basketball field. We set up a cake walk, guess the gumballs, mini-bowling, bean bag toss, hula hoops, bozo buckets and more. The kids had a great time!!! It was too dark to get very many good photos, but it was a great night of just FUN with all the families in the colonia!We handed out 100's of cupcakes......at our cake walk! The kids and also the moms got involved at this fun activity during the carnival.

Of course we also gave away LOTS of candy and other prizes during our carnival at Operation Light!