What a great day we had on Monday!It was our next visiting of orphans!
The weather was sunny and such beautiful in this day!In this orphanage we have regular Bible lessons to girls. But this time we decided to change our usual way and have fellowship with ALL kids of orphanage.
This time God such has blessed us!Oh my goodness! Really we did not expect it! I still feel like it happened yesterday!The day was such great!!!We still rejoicing by God blessings and thankful to Him for His mercy and such great kindness to us!
Ok.I will let you know what we have done there.When we came there and children saw us, they started to run and meet us. They were such glad, screamed and jumped because were happy to see us! They huged, have kissed us, in some moments we thought they will tear us up on many pieces. They are so funny and sweet! :-)))
We had about 90 kids there.This day was very warm so we decided to have time outside on fresh air, in shade.
Here we told them a Bible story about Daniel in lion den. In Bible Daniel 6. We have chosen a tall girl who was king Darius and a girl who was played Daniel. They LOVE much to play acts of Bible stories!!!
We have flannel pictures but we thought that children will not see because it is small size.We decided to use something bigger and play act of Bible story.So our lions we have drawn on cardboard from under boxes.
Of course they all wanted to play!
It was such funny to observe how they burst balloons different ways. They so much enjoyed much this game!!!Oh my goodness!
In the end of the game we learned this Bible verse what was written on blackboard. "Fear thou not; for I am with thee...I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee..." Isaiah 41:10
We took not all verse because here mental retarding girls and different special needs.We try to learn Bible verses with them easy and that they will remember it.
Also we have played a game "Pin the tail on the lion".We printed the lion on printer and Oksana has glued it. So, we can use it many times.
Kids loved this game!
And do you know what? We were able to give them icecream in the end of our meeting! Oh, how they were glad!They so MUCH REJOICED by it!
A girl told us:"Only you give to us icecream.No one else." We are not able bring to them often icecream. Can you imagine how seldom they eat it? We pray God will bless and we will bring to them sweets, icecream etc. each our journey there.
Look at this small girl.Is not she sweet and precious?
Girls saw off the team, go to home.
In the end many hugs and kisses, it is heavy to leave them here. They all time say "will stay and live with us" or "come back soon" or "come oftener" etc.
Also our dream is will take them to some place to show even any town, to be in McDonald or nice park or zoo. They have never been there! Can you imagine it?
What a blessing and such gladness would be to orphans to show animals in zoo what God created!
If they are exciting so much a little candy or icecream! Can you imagine how they will be happy to see elephant or monkey, camels and different birds! Want to cry just to think about it and imagine their so much happy faces to seeing different animals or being in McDonalds!...
This is where my heart is.....
ReplyDeleteJodi Lewandoski
This was a great post. Thank you for sharing the wonderful things you are doing!
ReplyDeleteWhat a blessing for your team and the children!
ReplyDeleteI love reading how you simply and clearly present the Bible stories so that all the children can understand. That is so important.
You did a great job on those cardboard lions...beautiful!
How you are touching those little hearts!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing!
Courtney