Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Posted by pam.morgan on June 24, 2010 under Updates | Read the First Comment

  Today we went across the boarder into Neuvo Laredo to a children’s home where we played with the children and served them lunch.  Some of these children are dropped off here during the week to be taken care of at the home and then go to visit their parents on the weekend.  Some are just dropped off for an unspecified time while their parents try to get their life together.  Some parents do not return for their children.   They go to school daily, the youngest ones go from 7 – 12 and the older ones go from 1 -6.  They love having us come as you can see in the pictures. The school is such a refuge for the children. Those who run the school provide order, discipline and God’s love and it shows.  The colorful walls and phrases reminding them that God loves them makes it a bright and positive place.  They really enjoyed showing off what they could do to people who care.  The boys wanted to show us their soccer skills and the girls were excited to show us how they could jump rope and other things. One girl, Alajandra, learned to throw the American football better than the guys could! 

We also did so many other things today, like teach a VBS at a Blanco Navidad, a small, very poor (palette city) neighborhood in Nuevo Laredo.  About 54 children attended. We taught them a scipture,  created a craft, played games and gave them “salvation” bracelets.  Daniel got to use his Spanish language skills checking the children in and translating for all of us in our various responsibilities. He did a great job. Drew did a great job of teaching the children songs, and Alex excelled in organizing games.   We all preformed the songs with hand movements and the children joined in with Lee’s encouragment.  We are finding that it is difficult to take the time to keep up the blog as it is very time consuming and we don’t get back to our home base for dinner until 10:30 or later. It is now midnight, so goodbye for now.  Thank you for your prayers and for your support.  We are changing lives, theirs and ours.