My focus til this point has been the not worry mode. Funds have been coming in slowly. My daughter reminds me quit worrying. MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! You have to trust that the money will come in before we leave. God shows he is listening by putting it on donors hearts to send funds.
Our teammates stated that we will leave as a whole team, no one will get left behind because of the lack of funds. Our team mates are so great, what we would do if we didnt have them? I dont want to know! So I stay in the mode of no worry, no anxiety!
Our change jar is getting fuller by the day. We empty change from our purses. Put change we find on the floor of the car, in the house and in furniture in the jar...even change from the dryer is placed in the jar. Next it will be all the returnable empties in our garage...and there are alot of them in there!
My focus from last saturday to the time we leave is VBS, VBS, VBS! LOL I love kids as you know me to. I love getting the program ready, my extra plan set up in my back pocket ready to whip out at a minutes notice, and then all the supplies and fun I can find. We even play parachute games...which reminds me! LOL I need to put it on the list...and go shoppin! :)
My MO is allowing kids to be kids...giving them two to three hours where they dont have to think about whatever is going on at home. They can play in a safe, area watched by adults who are there to minister to them by having fun. Having fun...that is what they like!
I decided this year I would take some shoe shine kits and sewing kits. I had someone donate some hotel sized sewing kits with prethreaded needles...figuring we could give them to little girls who might like to sew some clothing or maybe include in hygeine kits we make. The shoe shine kits, well there are many children I meet on streets that shine shoes for a living.
The other need I find is I meet many children sometimes in village street who are sooo sooo hungry, they look like theyve not eaten in a few days. We had given one little child trail mix, we could not pass him til he had some kind of treat. I am thinking maybe a bag of trail mix will end up in my bag as I dont want to pass a little one up again like that, it is so heartbreaking.
Our team again this trip is taking come teacher kits. In each kit is a stapler, scotch tape, grade books, various workbooks, sissors, glue, and a couple other teaching aides. The last time we took these with us the head teacher just beamed over the kits with so much pleasure! I was so pleased to present these to them on behalf of our team.
One trip we took enough school supplies to give 5 different schools we visited. The principals and head teachers were so pleased and appreciated every box of crayons, pencils pen, and other supplies we bought and to be honest...I think we might have had enough pencils with us to supply that small village! It was so great. I truly believe those pencils multiplied while in the bottom of the airplane on the way to Leon!
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