Habari asubuhi (good morning)! We are all having a wonderful experience in Africa. The children are beautiful and we love their company. I (Gina) am having the greatest experience of my life. The children are amazing and love to hang all over you and have your personal attention. I have been able to help Michele with the individual needs of the children. I love tutoring the children and playing sports with them. I feel so blessed to be able to come to this beautiful place.
Wednesday started out very exciting. We had Mandazi (donuts) for breakfast and then quickly departed to put on a skit for the school. The skit went very well. We did Noah’s Ark with props and animal sounds. After the wonderful skit we went to our different tasks. Brenda and I worked in the orphanage, organizing all of the donated crafts and clothes. Then Debbie and I planned the craft for the day. Sara read to Henry, a boy with chicken pox. The men worked very hard to complete a beautiful fence. Michele helped cook in the kitchen and prepared for the tutoring of the children later in the day. The whole Kenya team was able to tutor the children with their homework. The point of working with the children was to reward them for doing good things. Once they were done they got a lolly pop. Then we did our craft and after our craft we played with bubbles. They loved the bubbles and loved playing with us outside. After they played outside they had their devotional where Michele gave the message in one gazebo and Mike gave the message in the other. We ate dinner, heard about the life of Jonah and Mary, who are house parents and then we read stories to the children.
Your comments are greatly appreciated and we enjoy hearing from all of our family and friends. Please spread the word that we are posting blogs so that all of our family and friends know they can comment and read about the trip.
Prayer requests:
- The health of all our team.
- One of the house parents (Mary) - her mother is not a believer.
- Dorcas – that her baby delivery goes well, and that the baby is born healthy.
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Gina -- your mom is doing so good! I work at Valencia with her. She misses you, but is so happy that she (we) gets pictures and updates.
To Everyone: We are so proud of all of you and we can tell that the people there are already so much in love with all of you. Thank you for letting us know how to pray for the team and the Kenyan people. We miss you and love you, Miriam.
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