We were not allowed to take pictures here at Pinitos due to the poor living conditions of the people. So we snapped a few from the van before we got out. The community is in an alley between a slaughter house and a warehouse. The people live off of the scraps of the slaughterhouse by washing, rinsing, and drying the pig intestines to sell to sausage companies.
When we stepped out of the van we were hit with a stench so strong it turned the stomach. Then we looked at the ground to see a decomposing pig jawbone. We prayed for the community, and started to clean the community soccer field so that Global Soccer Ministries can start soccer/bible training for the community.
We cleaned glass, garbage, nails, and pig parts off of the field, and then painted lines on the field. We drew out a good amount of the community to ask what we were doing and why. Great opportunities to share the gospel.
A woman came out with a pitcher of lemonade to offer to us. But we had to turn her down due to the conditions of the water. Now to offer someone lemonade here is nothing, just put it in the fridge and drink it later. But most of them did not even have running water, let alone lemons and sugar. They lived on dirt floors in houses made of corrugated tin and held together with tree branches. Lemonade was everything she had, and she offered it to us.
It made me think of the story of the widow's pennies that she threw into the temple offering that Jesus highlighted and praised.
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