We’re without Daisy this week, as she continues her preparations for surgery. Thankfully, Anna, one of the missionary kids (16 years old) has been helping with translating. Our attendance has been down a bit, due to a holiday on Monday, and the yucky weather. But, we’re still having a great week. Some of the highlights:
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| Rachel, Krista & Jessica 'finger-knitting' (with Jenifer in pink top) Why on the benches? Trying to avoid cucarachas! |
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| with the girls & their Creation books |
On Tuesday morning we finished the Creation story books with our little girls. How sweet to listen to them reciting what God created on each day, with the help of the simple pictures in their booklets!
Yesterday afternoon and this morning we had an activity called Spending Your Life, with our two teen groups. It’s from an amazing book missionary friends of mine have written called It Takes Courage (http://www.kerusglobal.org/). Each participant was given a sheet with circles representing their time, talent and resources. The activity gives a series of options, and the teens choose to ‘spend’ their circles on one or the other.
For example (a) A good education or (b) A profitable business or (a) to be the most popular of all your friends or (b) to find one true friend.
Jessica, Krista and Rachel also shared what they do at the Joshua program, and why they chose to spend a year dedicated to following God without distractions like music, TV, and boyfriends. They shared how their community has become a family, how they now have so many brothers and sisters in Christ, and how much they are learning about God in this time.
In the future, we want to do more activities like this, helping the adolescents learn how to examine their lives, as well as how to participate and share opinions. We believe that if all faith ever is, is echoing back our words, it will never take root in their hearts.
We then went to visit Joemny, who had knee surgery last week. It was wonderful to hear her tell her story of living far from Christ, but then how through a bad moto accident, He became real to her. Her doctors had told her that she would never be able to bend her injured leg, but she told them God could heal her.
And… with this operation, she is able to bend it! She has a long way to go, including physical therapy, which she knows will be hard (and painful) work. But, her face was glowing with excitement and joy in Jesus. What an honor to hear her story, and pray for her.
In the afternoon the students had their acting debut! Daisy wrote a short drama with three scenes for them to perform.
In the first, two sat talking about smoking and drinking, and how just a little isn’t bad, since they’re hurting no one else.
In the second, one of them was feeling badly, but didn’t have money to go to the doctor. She did have money to get her hair and nails done, however!
In the third, one sat off by herself while the other two talked about her. After what she did to me, I’ll never forgive her!
It was terrific! Their pronunciation was great, and the women who came ‘got it’. One of them said that it had really spoken to her, because she always like to spend her money on getting her hair and her nails done.
It’s hard to believe we’ve only got two more days together! We know God has other great things planned for them, but we’re sure going to miss them!
P.S. While we’ve been working hard inside, the Construction team has been working hard outside! Jump over to the New Site page for new pictures!
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