As you can see, I'm into a lot of photos today! These are from this past Wednesday which is the big day for the Kids Club out at the Quito dump. We had the help of a wonderful team from Center Grove Church in Greenwood, IN! We are so glad they came to help, especially since 65 children, babies, adults and 1 dog who showed up!
Sixty-five people was a record attendance for the Kids Club - somehow with some extra benches we found in another room there at the dump, we were able to get everyone around the tables. Our friends, Tommie & Ennie Bowen provided the story and songs. The team brought the craft and I had coloring pages and snacks for everyone!
It was so much fun for me to be out at the dump again (I haven't been able to go for several weeks due to the pregnancy) and it was especially nice because Santi was able to take some time from his work at the computer department at HCJB and come and help! He's great with kids - a lot more patient than I am! Hee, hee.
Two of our high schoolers from this past school year, Christine and Michele, also came to help. THANK YOU GIRLS!
The story was on the color black & sin from the "wordless book" - Ennie is doing a series on the wordless book this summer, talking about a different color each week, using it to explain more about God and how we can know Him personally. The cool part was that the team had agreed to bring the craft several weeks ago when we were coordinating the details. We had no idea what craft they were going to bring. Can you believe that they ended up bringing bracelets to make with all the children that had the colored beads from the Wordless Book!?!?! Isn't that awesome! So even the craft reinforced the story this past week.
If you think of it on Weds afternoon pray for us as there's a lot to prepare and many volunteers who come and help. We hope that through this weekly club we are able to make a difference in these kids' lives.
Also - a team is coming from St. Joseph, MI to help us with a four-day Kids Club at the dump July 24 - 27. Please pray that this would be a good week for us to get to know the children better and help them to know God better! As you can tell by the attendance, there is definitely a lot of interest!
2 comments:
Hi Ruth & Santi,
Great job on the blog as it allows us to keep up with your happenings and reminds us to keep in constant prayer for your ministry there in Ecuador along with a continual prayer for those living there in the dump. God bless and we hope to see the both of you soon, and deeply regret not being able to be there now.
*SANTI: get me food woman
Good for people to know.
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