Minga

"Minga" is the Spanish word for work-be, and that is what we had with the church youth on Saturday.  The leadership of the youthgroup at Paz de Dios have two main focuses for activities with the youth.  They will either do mingas or challenging hikes.  Both have the purpose to challenge the youth physically, and then there is always a Bible study to challenge them spiritually as well. 

 

Last Saturday happened to be a minga.  We all met at the church at 8:00am and arrived back at 6:00pm.  Because of the long day planned, we didn't expect a large group, but were pleasantly surprised when almost 20 youth showed up.

 

With the youth, we drove an hour to the land of one of the members of the church.  There we worked together all day to build a barb wire fence.  On the way home, we stopped for ice-cream.  Here are some pictures from the day.