Tuesday!

Hello! For all of you who may not know me, I am Payton and I am Pastor Brett's favorite niece. Today we had breakfast and devotions and then we went to a Detroit Garden which is right outside of the two mile radius of Hamtramck. The Detroit garden is run by Christian missionaries on the property of a Muslim Mosque. In exchange for taking care of the garden, the missionary holds bible

studies at the Mosque with Muslims. When we arrived the girls started weeding and pulling out old plants that they didn't need, while the boys built stairs for a little treehouse in the garden. After we took a break for lunch we met the Imam of the Mosque, who talked to us about the similarities and differences between Islam and Christianity. It was really interesting to listen to him explain what he believes in. There
were some similarities in both religions such as Mary being the mother of Jesus but there were also some ginormous differences between the religions such as Jesus' crucifixion. In the muslim religion, they don't believe that Jesus was crucified, they believe that someone who looked like Jesus was beaten and crucified in his place.
After talking to the Imam, we went back to the garden for more work before coming back to IHC for the night. It's been so fun learning about the Muslim culture and serving so far, Thank you for all of your prayers!

Payton