A LOT OF FIRSTS HAPPENED LATELY

On Saturday, the team from Sunset Presbyterian Church, Portland Oregon arrived with many first timers doing a missions trip. Saturday after supper, they bagged up hundreds of bags of beans and rice. Sunday we left early to attend church at Melody Orphanage in Reynosa Mexico. We enjoyed several worship songs, followed by a celebration of Jaimes birthday. They had a musical group of 8 guitars singing Christian songs serenade us. I asked if they could come to the Colonia and play during the food outreach later in the day. They agreed and came at 2pm.
When we arrived at the community center, man it was packed. More people than ever came for free food. We started setting up speakers and microphones when the band arrived. They were awesome and the people seemed to enjoy thier music. While they were playing, a woman named Jael fainted. Family and friends tried to revive her to no avail. I started to get more concerned about her condition, so we carried her inside and started CPR. Twould ladies from the team gave chest compressions and I gave her mouth to mouth resuscitation. We called for an ambulance, but they said they were not able to come soon. We loaded her into my truck and away they went, with the girls still giving her CPR all the way to the hospital. Unfortunately, Jael didn't make it, and was ushered to the Lord by the Angels of heaven. What a day, to say the least.
While literally hundreds of people that came for food just experienced,this tragidy, we had to continue with the dispensa of the food. The team helped hand out the food, as the people's names were called.
Yesterday we started building the house for Fernando and his family. A great day building, but the sadness of Jaels passing was still on everyones heart. Several people went with Paula to the families house, and paid thier respects on behalf of the whole team. They waked and buried her yesterday, and we helped with the costs of the services.
So many first time missionarys are here, first time CPR was needed while a team was here, first time I gave mouth to mouth resuscitation on someone, first trip to a Mexican hospital for some of the team, first time we hired a group to play at the food outreach, First time we had over 200 families come for food. MANY FIRSTS THIS WEEK, SOME GOOD, SOME NOT SO GOOD.