End of Another Great Day in Bogotá

¡Hola de Bogotá! We had a great day today. We went to church with our missionary, Alex, this morning. It's a house church in the missionary's townhouse complex. We were able to worship in both Spanish and English which was amazing. Alex said that his goal for his church was that 100% of his membership would be active in serving the body and the community. That's a lofty goal. But what amazed me is that the current percentage of members that were actively serving was 50%!!!! If our church had that percentage of workers...wow!! What if only 50% tithed??!!!

I have been very intentional about trying authentic Colombian food so far. I've already had a couple interesting experiences with that! Today at a huge festival where there were over one hundred restaurants with booths a friend and I paid 20,000 Colombian pesos (~ $12) for a huge plate of meat and split it. I immediately dived into what looked like chicken. I found out that it was chiguido. Chiguido is a large rodent down here that is similar to a gigantic guinea pig. Alex, the missionary, doesn't even eat it. I have to say that it was very good. It was like spicy pork! I also found out later that it is endangered and that made me feel bad :).

After church we went to the Ciclovilla. That is an amazing thing that Bogotá does where they shut down one side of the largest road in the city every Sunday from 7am to 2pm to allow bicycles and rollerbladers and walkers to exercise.

The café here is amazing! For you peeps who are fellow coffee connoisseurs...just to make you jealous...I had an amazing cubano today!

The weather here is neat because it's always right around 60 degrees. The funny thing is that it is usually comfortably cool but it can instantly become hot because the sun comes out. This weather makes from some great fruit and beautiful vegetation.

Traffic here is loco!! People honk a lot and the rules are totally optional!

Thus far we have spent a lot of time in the higher class areas of town, which are very western. Tomorrow we will be spending the day in the south end of Bogotá which is very poor. Our prayer is that God would keep us safe physically, but that He would break our hearts for this city. May your prayer be the same.

In Christ Alone,
Brian