Humanitarian Aid

Last Thursday we went with President Boyd to the Ministry of Social Development's storage units to get the church's portion of supplies that finally arrived in Jordan from the states. There is quite the drawn out process to get anything done with the government system here. It took President Boyd about two weeks to just get authorization to get into the storage unit to retrieve their shipment of goods. We labored hard from about 9:45am to 1:30pm, hauling boxes and loading wheelchairs. It was pretty funny to see how they reacted to a woman, a blond haired, blue eyed woman at that, working just as hard and long as they were. Haha! I was dripping with sweat and throwing boxes and laughing with the whole bunch even though I don't speak but three arabic words and only one of the egyptian men spoke any amount of english. Jerid was there for about an hour before he had to head back to the ministry and when he left all the men kept telling me to sit down and rest in the shade. I kept telling them... "la, la (no, no)... you sit down and rest, or start working harder!" They would laugh and laugh. Islamic Relief came later and helped as well. They picked up about 1/3 of the shipment. Olivia was the leader of their group and she was such a sweet, diligent woman. She kept hugging me thanking me for helping and telling me that we would be so blessed for doing the work. What an excellent example of service she was. She does this day in and day out.

Here are a few pictures of the day...



















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Location:Amman, Jordan