Meet Rebekah Stebbins
I
am a recent College of Wooster graduate, with a background in German and
Spanish. Wooster Grace Brethren has been part of my life for the past 20
years, and I have done several student mission trips with the junior and senior
high school ministries group. I am looking forward to the future, and
seeing how my passion for different cultures will influence my life and those
around me.
July 12th
Today was just supposed to be a “lazy” day of traveling. We
slept in for once, went to the airport, flew to Macapa, and we were supposed to
relax and check into our new hotel. That didn’t happen though. Once we landed
in Macapa and retrieved all our things, we were graciously welcomed by a ton of
people from the Grace Brethren church here in macapa. There were so many people
there to help us/drive us that only 2 people went in each car even though we
could have fit more! We just had to spread out to a lot of vehicles. Then
instead of going to the hotel, we went to the church and had a snack. We met
even more people and we decided to do a little sightseeing before going to the
hotel. Not quite sure what was going on, a girl came up to me and waved at me to
follow her. She said we were going. No one else was moving yet, so I was a bit
confused. I went with her and she and her father were my personal
drivers/escorts for the evening. I found out that the girl was just 15 and
could speak a bit of English and understand even more. As we got to our first
destination, a Portuguese fort, we had to wait for the rest of our entourage.
At least five more cars pulled in after us! We had a very large group of
Americans and Brazilians. The entire night when we were out being tourists my
new friend was quick to make sure I unde3rstood everything and got lots off
pictures. I just loved how she kept track of me the entire night. This is just
one other example of how amazing the church in Macapa is. They are so prepared
for us and take such great care of us. It’s so amazing. After a visit to Museum
Sacaca, we continued on to the equator marker and got some fun pictures there
too. The best part of the whole evening was the huge entourage3 we were in.
This group showed us so much love on our fierst day here. After touring, we
came back to the church and had a wonderful dinner then had a meeting to
discuss the next day’s events for the English camp. We check in to our hotel
around 9ish, had a team meeting to further our plans for the camp, and finally
went to bed. So a nice, peaceful day turned into a long wonderful day instead.
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