On Saturday, October 21st, we took a trip to Jojutla, Morelos to cook for those who lost their homes. Jojutla was the worst hit city in the state of Morelos. Most of the deaths in the state happened there. The area of Jojutla that we went to has very few houses that are either still standing or don’t need to be torn down. The church building fell, but the parsonage did not. In fact the parsonage has the only working bathroom in the area, so all of the neighbors are there often. The church put up a tarp and started feeding people on September 21st, two days after the earthquake. They prepare lunch and dinner every day for up to 150 people.
This is where the church building used to be.
A group of 9 of us from our church went to make a meal for 150 people in the affected area. We left at 6 am and drove 2 hours to a church that has a large kitchen. We started to prepare Chicken en Achiote. Sorry, I don’t know the translation of achiote. We spent all morning preparing the food and buying more supplies that the church needed. We finished the meal at around 2 pm.
We left the kitchen once the meal was prepared and took it an hour away to Jojutla. There, we served the food, talked with the people, and had a few opportunities to share the gospel.
Once we finished, we left and arrived home at about 8 pm.