Update

During the week we have been busy at children’s homes and having a wonderful time getting to know the kids! They’ve asked us not to take pictures for the first couple of weeks and focus on building relationships instead so I have no pictures with the kids to share yet but I promise we have been doing things other than the tourist things that I put up pictures about. We have focused on two of the children’s homes primarily and we’ve started a routine of telling them a bible story, teaching a little lesson on manners (at one of the homes especially,) helping them with homework, reading with them, and then organizing games either indoor or outdoor. No matter what we do, we always have a good time just being with them and getting to know their individual personalities. One day last week we were sitting around coloring pictures with the kids and little Takunda, who is 8, started singing “How Great Is Our God” while he continued to color and some of the other children joined in. It was the most precious thing and nearly brought me to tears. Each of them are all so precious and they are teaching me much more than I could ever teach them.

On Friday mornings we have also been going to St. Catherine’s (a school for children with disabilities) and participating in their assembly. We sing songs with them and then act out a bible story for them. We basically make fools out of ourselves but I think they enjoy it and we are always blessed by our time with them.  We weren’t able to go this last week because they kids were out of school but hopefully we will get to continuing going there again soon.