Today was our first day of ministry. We left the house after breakfast at 9am and headed to the church (Iglesia Ebenezer). We were not sure what to expect so we brought a few games, our craft bag and practiced a song on the bus. When we arrived there was two sets of kids (about 50 total) waiting for us to run an entire 2 hour VBS. Our kids did a great job of going with the flow and jumping in and serving. One team worked with the older kids playing games outside. Jerry did a great job translating while Eli, Conner, Cheyenne and Mrs. Sullivan played games with a parachute and Hulu hoops! The kids had fun connecting to our students! The rest of the team was inside the church with the younger kids. We began with a song and then had help from the church's children's director Rubi who had the kids teach us a song. The crafts team worked hard to put together Jonah coloring books while the rest of the team played with the kids. Robin explained the craft and CJ helped translate. Our students did a great job of jumping in and loving the kids! During our debrief time students shared how great it was to love on the kids and to see how grateful they were. We were sad to leave the children as we had fallen in love with them. Towards the end we gave Rubi the left over crafts. She was so excited and praised God for bringing out team to bless her and her ministry. Our team walked away admiring the love the church had for each other and being reminded of how much we have at home. We were so blessed to love on these kids! Praise God!
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CJ holding the tube as the children crawl through
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Cheyenne, Christian, and Eli play a relay game with the older kids
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The kids at the church stop to pose for a picture
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Parachute game outside
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Adara and her new friend
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Irene and the Children's Ministry Director, Rubi
Rubi is helping us run the VBS
How wonderful!!! So excited to hear about the ministry to the children. That is wonderful for the team to make those connections and love on the kids. Just keep on hugging them! Praying for you guys! Love and hugs to Rachel!
ReplyDeleteHow fun!!! Congrats to ALL sounds like your mininstries have been a great success!!! Lovin the pancakes!!!! Sounds like not too much "roughin it" hahaha. God is good and you all are very blessed!! Thank you to all the adults for making this experience possible for our students! Praise God!!!
ReplyDeleteBlessings and we will continue to pray. Thanks for the blog updates!!
In Christ~
The Hennesseys
Im so glad you all are having a good time! Your team is in my prayers and i cannot wait to hear all the stories of how God has blessed you through the people of Costa Rica!!!
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I'm bummed i wasnt able to see you before you left ): But i look forward to seeing you as soon as you get back(: i hope you have a super amazing time! Youre the best eli, keep it up!!! Lemme know as soon as you get back, we'll get together so i can hear stories(:
-Macy (:
Shout out to Macy (this is Eli(: ). I know right I hope you are having an awesome time on your road trip! I already have a lot to talk about and a lot to share and we still have more than half of the trip left! Ya I will for sure I know its July 3rd but I don't remember the time. Hahaha hope your UofO tour went great today! Can't wait to hear about your stories too!
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