El Día de las Madres

Sweet Marjorie is ready to party!

Yesterday we celebrated Día de la Madres (Mothers’ Day) at the site.  We combined both our afternoon Adult women and morning Young Women for a roomful!  In all, close to 50 women (and 20 little ones!) came to celebrate being moms.  It was also time to celebrate those who had birthdays during the first half of the year. 

Angie and Sarah gave the Site a thorough cleaning while Kaylee, Charity and Shelby joined Kimberley to shop for gifts to raffle.  Since we have so many women, we draw names for gifts like serving trays, plastic containers, umbrellas and more.

One of our moms, Negra, was not able to join us, as she was in the hospital having a baby.  Daisy spent some time with her in the morning before she was wheeled into surgery.  Negra’s water broke last week, but the contractions did not start, and so our SI doctor, Fernando, performed a C-section yesterday.  We are waiting to hear news of how it all went.

Shelby reminds the women they are 'fearfully
and wonderfully made' (Ps 139)

Our wonderful students helped decorate, and read passages out loud (in Spanish!) from Psalm 139 and Proverbs 31. 

Daisy invited the women to share some of their greatest joys and difficulties in being a mom.  What a blessing to hear older moms share wisdom with the younger ones!  What a joy to see all the little kids running around!  We are so grateful for more space, allowing us to spread out, stand up, raise hands in worship. 

Daisy’s son, Mateo, was our ‘tech guy’ setting up a laptop, speakers and projector to show a video called El es mi Rey, which means He is my King.  This is a wonderful Spanish language version of the English, where the many names and attributes of Jesus are powerfully proclaimed. 

Lifting up praises to El Rey, our King, Jesus

Milagros shares a poem about Mothers

When it was done, the women burst into spontaneous applause.  “Now, let’s worship Him!”  How beautiful to watch and hear the women praising God together. 

The women seemed to really enjoy the gifts we picked out.  The raffle is always a highlight of our parties!  Then, it was snack time.  The students served up Dominican finger food and Tang, and then birthday cake.  They worked really hard, and we’re so thankful for their servant hearts!