Today we went into Gibson Primary school for the first of
our lunchtime Bible clubs. I had got
the children’s ‘make your own Bibles’ from the Bible society ready to give out
and yesterday called the head teacher to ask how many children to expect at the
club out of the 321 children in the school.
She told me it could be anything up to 300! So we went out and bought lots of coloured pencils and arrived
with 324 Bibles in the car just in case!
When
we arrived some very small but exceedingly strong children helped Mark carry
the boxes of Bibles upstairs, I set up my CD player and we were ready to
begin. We started with only about 100
children (ha ha…only 100!!) in the room all squashed onto benches and I told
them a Bible story and taught them the song ‘Great Big God’ which they
loved! Gradually more and more children
arrived, drawn by the sound of the music and by the end of our half hour
session we had about 250 children crammed into the room! It was chaos but great fun! We gave out the Bibles and they all coloured
the first page of it and have promised to look after them and keep them safely
for next week!
A
good time was had by all! Even one of
the teachers exclaimed ‘This is fun!’ and said she looks forward to us coming
back next week. As we tidied away at
the end of the session many of the children, some looking like little street
urchins and some without shoes gathered round for a hug and a kiss. It was so moving and I just LOVED it! I can’t wait to go back next week. (Mark took some photos which will follow once I get to some wifi!)
On
our way home we found the Mahaica children’s home and went in to introduce
ourselves to the manager. We asked if
we could come in once a month to take a little service and sing some songs and
she was delighted. There are 60
children who live there and we are going in next Tuesday afternoon. I can’t wait to meet them all. The home is close to Gibson Primary so we
may meet some of the children we saw at lunchtime.
THIS
is what we came to do and I am so happy to finally start getting out there into
the schools and meeting the children.
Missionary
girl Barbie!
We
were laughing the other night at some of the things that we are beginning to
take in our stride that would have once freaked us out! Here are some examples…
- When I went to the
loo in the night, I spotted a frog in the bathroom sink and just thought,
‘Oh there’s a frog’ and went back to bed!
- When the lizards run around the house we just ignore them now! (I noticed they change colour according to the background they are on!)
- When the power
goes off, as it does frequently, we just get our torches and carry on with
whatever we were doing.
- When some foods
are not available I just make something else with whatever we happen to
have.
- I just wipe up the
ants off the kitchen surfaces now as a matter of course and every food
item is inside a plastic ‘zip lock’ bag to protect it!
- We just shoo the
cows out of the garden in the evenings when we need to lock the gate.
- When the shower
attachment is just a dribble we still manage to get clean. It’s amazing how little water you
actually do need to stay clean!
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