Luis is just one of the 50 or so kids we shared God's love with. Luis and I played hide and seek and an intense game of freeze tag together. He is one fun kid. As the kids were drawing on the sidewalk with chalk, Luis was trying to tell me something that I couldn't understand. Finally he draws a picture on the ground and points to it and says that it's me, the princess! :)
You can clearly see the crown on my head ;). Then he asks me if I want a baby, so I say sure! And he draws me a baby. See it?
It's difficult not to admire the innocence of children. Luis made bracelets with my help for himself and his two siblings, then thoroughly enjoyed the skit and singing. We sang "Father Abraham", "I'm All Wrapped Up" and "Jesus Loves Me" among many other songs. The kids loved playing duck duck goose. It was so difficult to leave! They nearly came on the bus with us to leave. I am so grateful that we have 2 more days to spend with these children to shine God's love in their young lives. I pray that God's light is shining bright through all of our lives!
This morning we worked at a homeless ministry doing a variety of jobs from sorting and cleaning to weeding and disinfecting toys. It was a great time to work hard and have a little fun, too.
I could write a lot more about today, but I think the pictures can speak for themselves: http://picasaweb.google.com/ejtotheworld/SpringBreak?feat=directlink.
They are some really adorable kids! Yesterday I had taken a break from picture taking. Saturday I took over 300 pictures so I felt I had done Orlando justice for my first few days. Today there were only around 200 ;) and I posted 60 of those.
Also if you'd like to check out this website:
http://thelink.harding.edu/index.php/arts/1120-harding/501-student-artist-profile, Harding did a student profile on my co-leader, Devon! It's a pretty neat interview.
Hope you all are enjoying this blog! Thanks for all the prayers; may it all be to God's glory!
-ej
2 comments:
All these stories on this blog from the last couple days are just full of awesomeness! It's so incredible and inspiring what you and your team are doing. Thanks for taking the time to write it up. You're all still in my prayers. Keep up the good work. =)
There's a line I read in my devotions today that stood out and reminded me of you guys and the work you're doing this week - "God only deals in addition and multiplication, not subtraction and division." May your light continue to shine and God's glory keeps magnifying!
-Kirstie
I loved reading about Luis and know there are other children like him there. They are in our prayers. So are you and your team. Your compassion, and your faithfulness to Him is awesome. Aunt Judy
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