This past Saturday was our Saturday Fun Day. Each month we attract more and more children to our group. I wasn’t aware before just how many community kids we have coming to us but this past Saturday we had 60 kids in attendance and on average we have about 25 kids coming to our Sunday School program. So that is about 35 community children that are coming to see us on these Saturdays!! Praise the Lord!
We had a really great time during this event. I spoke to the kids about Beauty. We talked about how we spend so much time taking care of our outside appearance but so little time focusing on our hearts…the place where God looks. I did a demonstration with the kids. I had two bottles that looked exactly the same and in one I put water, in the other was vinegar. Yabsira volunteered to be my helper.
I asked him if the bottles looked the same and he and all of the other children agreed that they did look the same. I had him sip the first bottle and asked him if it was good. He said yes, because it was the water. He then sipped the next liquid but when I asked if it was good, he said “No!”. The lesson was meant to show that by the outside, the bottles are attractive with the decorative glass and blue top, and they are good because they do everything you need a bottle to do for you. But it’s not until you examine and experience what’s on the inside do you realize that they are indeed not the same and one is bad and one is good. We had a discussion about how God defines beauty and how the world defines beauty.
Then, we had art time. My friends Jamie and Hannah had purchased some really beautiful paint sets for our ministry and I was able to use them with the kids. They were so happy! Some of them had never painted before. They were instructed to paint something they thought was beautiful. I found out that we have some artists in our group!!
After painting, we had lunch. We served Misir wot with injera (Ethiopian food) and fruit salad. A few of the smaller kids didn’t like the fruit but most of them loved it and we had a few squabbles over the left-over fruit! Fruit salad is a huge treat for them as most families really only eat bananas because other fruit is so pricey.
Enjoy some pics from our day:
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| My faithful translator...and husband, Mussie!! |
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| Vinegar doesn't taste so great! |
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| What an artist! |
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| Gorgeous! |
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| Abeneezer is proud of his tree! |
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| Some of our blessings from the community. |
