Monday

This morning we had our first session of VBS of the oldest 20 kids at GLA. We also 13 kids come from neighboring homes whose parents can not afford for them to be in school.

We had a great morning! The kids did well at singing, listening well to the story, making their craft and of course eating their snack! The story today was the parable about the woman who valued the money she had. She would count it almost daily and one day when she counted it she was missing a coin. She looked and looked for it until she finally found it. We stressed to the kids that God loves them so much that if they get 'lost', He will search and search for them until they are found. The story today was given in the form of a skit which the kids loved. We also gave them a Bible memory verse to learn for tomorrow. Today's verse was from Ephesians 2:8, 'For it is by grace you have been saved'. The nannies do a good job at teaching the memory verse to the kids.

After the story the kids split into two groups. One group went and ate their snack which was a gold wrapped chocolate coin in the bottom of a bowl and covered with cheerios. We related this back to the story they heard. The other group went and made their craft which was a little purse that they put a plastic gold coin in.

The kids also played with jump ropes did more singing and then had a lot of fun playing duck, duck, goose which we changed the word to 'lost, lost, found.' Once the VBS session was finished we played with the kids some more until it was time to walk down to the main house for lunch.

There is really no way to describe how steep the walk is from the toddler house down to the main house. We have tried to take pictures and they do not do it justice. So far we have had a few slips but no one has fallen down. :) After lunch there was no one to drive us up to Ft. Jacques to help with the building project and all of the babies were sleeping so we were having a hard time finding something to do. The staff at GLA have a meeting this afternoon to write down a list of jobs that we can do in the afternoons. Most of the team members have walked back up to the guest house to do their prep work for tomorrow's VBS session. I stayed back at the main house to write on the blog and to help the nurse if it is needed.

A prayer request would be that one or two shipping containers will come out of customs tomorrow or the next day so that our team can be put to work sorting through the items that were shipped in. Most of these items were donated and are relief focused. These items will be distributed to areas that are not located close to Port-Au-Prince so have not received the aid that the closer areas have.

Thanks for your prayers. We could definitely feel them in how well today's VBS went!
Cheryl