The major event of our time in Mexico city was Coyoacan. This is a large plaza in a beautiful part of the city where a lot of young people hang out on the weekends. With the 'insecurities' in Mexico in recent months the municipality had denied everyone permits to perform in this area. But when the team in Mexico city approached the local municipality for a permit, they happily gave it as they said that everyone had become very depressed with all the recent problems in the country and they needed something to cheer people up and remind everyone to 'love their neighbour' again. So our mission was to bring a message of hope and love to the plaza. We invited all the other youth missions in the area to join us, and ended up with a large group. We started off by going around the plaza and offering 'free hugs' to anyone who was interested..... this spread like wildfire and soon people were reaching out to those around them. During this time we also invited everyone to join us later in the afternoon so watch our show. At 5:30 a large crowd had gathered to watch the show, the audience sat spellbound and silent throughout the program,except to applause at the end of each section. We ended with having the audience join us for some 'camp fire' style dancing. Viva Mexico!
Click this link to watch the new and improved version of the Everything drama performed at Coyoacan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnTvRWuMKVM
All the young volunteers for the mission.
Happy recipients.
The crowd intently watches the box skit.
The girls performing one of their dances.
Singing in Spanish.
A member of the audience who used to come to Bible studies with Chris when he was in Mexico 15 years ago, but he had lost contact. He just happened to be there that day, he still does bible studies in the same plaza with the books Chris gave to him. He was so happy to make contact again, and will stay in contact with the local mission center.
The crowd join in with the dancing- Mexicans are such lively people.
These boys some how missed out on the free hugs, we found them later, sadly sitting on a park bench with a small white sign they had made them selves which said ' we need free hugs' in spanish. This problem was quickly solved.
