El Salvador Day 1

Pastor Jaime Melendez + his wife

As I write this it's about 4pm, and the weather went from being beautiful and sunny to suddenly becoming violently windy with thick thunderous clouds on the verge of a mean downpour in the space of about 10 minutes.

THE TOWN OF THREE QUARTER MILLION PEOPLE
We arrived in San Salvador about 45 minutes late due to an, "inability of getting one of the engines started" back in LA.  Immediately after gathering our goods we traveled first thing to visit some dear saints living in a town of 800,000 people, called Zacateculuca...yup, thats what they call it, "a town".  I was able to deliver the 65 lbs. of goods (band-aides, toothbrushes, toothpaste, aspirin, etc) to Pastor Jaimie, and he was almost brought to the verge of tears and couldn't restrain himself from continuously shaking my hand.

School Kids at Zacateculuca

They showed us the dirt lot which they just closed on a few weeks ago, which they've already begun preparations to construct four more classrooms which will seat 25 students each.  The almost $14,000 Calvary SLO contributed just over a month ago was what helped to nudge this much needed project forward.

CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST
Several years ago Campus Crusade for Christ in San Luis Obispo, lead by Jamey Papas, took on the challenge of making fresh inroads into the Universities in San Salvador.  Many of the students which have come here to be a part of this team have gone to Calvary SLO.  So, tonight I was invited to go eat papusas, with them and attempt to bring a little SLO away from home. (you like that little rhyme?)

Construction of new classrooms