Kid’s day

As I write this it is at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, Liberia time. We now have a WiFi connection that Emmanuel has for his guests and up to now we did not need it. For some reason our phones all stopped working. (Mine, Jenny’s and David’s). This is a WiFi hotspot that they recharge with data from scratch cards. I don’t know how fast you go thru data, but we’ll help out with the costs.

Today may not have been the most busy day we’ve had, but it was sure the most intense ministry. Anytime you do things for children you have the potential of finding out exactly how many children are in the area.

Jenny experienced this again when planning, along with Herrietta and Winston, two people from LCMI church, to do the kid’s club and sponsor a meal along with the lesson. Here are a couple of pictures from the beginning of the session followed by one of the last ones when we tried to get all the kids outside. We weren’t too successful.

The training went well and we learned to try and stop more from coming once it starts. At one point we had over 250 children in the church and more coming. These children all know memory verses and they recited John 3:16 and Romans 3:23 without any problems. That is one thing they do well here in Liberia, teach scripture memorization.

When it came time for the meal we had to try and contain the push from the children. It was in the heat and I would say Jenny and the team lost a whole lot of water during this time of wrangling the children and getting as many to eat as possible. We planned for 200 kids and Jenny gave out around 440 necklaces from Mom’s group back in Wallace. There were more children coming asking for necklaces after she ran out. You’ll have to ask Jenny about her day next time you talk to her.

After we finished at around 3:30, we were all hit, tired and thirsty. Here is just part of the team that did do well.

Tomorrow is church day and David Nelson from Tampa will be preaching so I have the day off from speaking. Jenny and I look forward to being participants and hearing. It will be good for a down day.

Our plans are to visit Titus and Mercy on Monday. I want to take a “kekeh”. This is a three wheeled motorbike with seating for two as a taxi. We’ll see if we take that or not.