Pucallpa!

For the last week and a half I have been with a team in the jungle city of Pucallpa. I immeditaly fell in love with Pucallpa and am sad to say it is my last day here. The current team is from Yakima, Washington and have been a real blessing to have here. Our time here has been spent doing VBS programs, construction on the church, and a couple adventures into the jungle.
Yesterday we completed a new entrance to the Alliance Church here and more importantly made some great new friendships with the people we worked with. VBS was a huge turn out and we are excited to have one more this afternoon.
The people we have been working with here and incredible. Possibly the most gracious people I have ever met and I feel as if I have known them for much longer than ten days. The team has done very well at connecting with the locals even with the language barrier, but knowing the Peruvian people it is not hard to fall in love with them.
I thought it would be fun to do a top 5 list, so here we go:
5. Getting nibbled on by pirahnas in the Amazon.
4. Receiving a very feminine necklace as a gift from a woman in a thatched-roof home in a remote jungle village only accessible by river boat.
3. Joining in a city-wide workers' strike parade.
2. Trading my shirt off my back with an ice cream vendor in the main plaza.
1. Having a little Peruvian girl sing 'We Are the World' to me because her Enlgish teacher taught it to her.

Pictures to come when I return to Trujillo....