Good evening friends! What a blessed day we have had! We spent the morning at a preschool orphanage in Georgi Damyanovo. We put shoes on 48 children! These preschoolers were so patient with us as we worked to match shoes to their feet. All were delighted, especially those children whose shoes lit-up when they stomped. We played with the children outside on the playground and could not find enough arms to hold them. It's clear that these children belong to God. They are precious and joyful and a delight to love.
After a lunch of deer stew and banana ice cream, we spent the afternoon at Berk 3 for our final visit. Midge finished-up her exams, and Tom completed checking eyes and provided glasses to the children who needed them. The rest of the team spent time with the children outside. Many of the children were coming back from school, and we did not have as many children outside with us as we have had in the past, and this provided us the opportunity to engage them on a more inidivudal basis. Skip and Jane shared the story of Jesus healing the blind man with the "cools kids," the teenagers who group to themselves. Charles showed that he could jump rope with the best.
After a lunch of deer stew and banana ice cream, we spent the afternoon at Berk 3 for our final visit. Midge finished-up her exams, and Tom completed checking eyes and provided glasses to the children who needed them. The rest of the team spent time with the children outside. Many of the children were coming back from school, and we did not have as many children outside with us as we have had in the past, and this provided us the opportunity to engage them on a more inidivudal basis. Skip and Jane shared the story of Jesus healing the blind man with the "cools kids," the teenagers who group to themselves. Charles showed that he could jump rope with the best.
Bryan played socceer all afternoon, and the rest of us colored, turned rope, and threw frisbees. I spoke with a 13-year-old girl, Alex, and she shared that her favorite subject was literature, and when asked what she liked to read, she responded that she enjoyed a famous Bulgarian author known for his poem about a child saying good-bye to her mother. What we are experiencing is challenging, is special, and is a tremendous blessing and burden simultanously. Thank you for loving us. Thank you for your prayers for our team and our mission. God is truly at work!
