Ever wonder what a truck load of clothes looks like?!

this past sunday i received a call from Carlos (a team mate) asking if i could help unload a truck of aid that had come from sweden, we expected it on monday but it arrived a day early. i asked him how many of us would be there to unload and he replied 10 or so, and i responded "good it will go really quick then", to which he replied "oh kyle you don't understand you'll see when you get here!", now I was picturing a mini-bus packed with some clothes and stuff, when i arrived i was shocked to see a full semi-truck waiting, packed from top to bottom, front to back. 24 tons of everything from shoes, clothes, tables, chairs and everything in between. now don't get me wrong we are so excited to have this all donated but it is just a little overwhelming when you look at it. we unloaded it all into our ministry center, so now you can hardly walk inside there, boxes stacked from floor to ceiling, plus we had to fill a vacant team apartment with couches, tables and chairs. I would put some pictures of what the inside of the center looks like but no picture would do it justice so you'll just have to picture hundreds of banana boxes (apparently the swedes have a addiction to bananas) and a huge pile of garbage bags of clothes. We have had a group of swedish gypsies come down many times to do work with the gypsies here and they are the ones who put this all together. they also have contacts in slovakia so the plan is for a truck to come from slovakia to pick up a good chunk of the goods, otherwise we will be spending the next year distributing all of it! on Sunday we will have a Christmas service in a close by gypsy community and we are putting together some packages and also there we will take down names of families so we can personally bring them clothes and the such!

Above is a picture of our team, children and all. This evening we had our Christmas dinner together and as you can see it was quite a crowd, and we were even missing some.