Just wanted to take a few minutes and blog about some exciting things that just occured here at the orphanage. A short term missions group from two churches in Georgia just came to Chiapas, Mexico for about 8 or 9 days. One part of the group (most of the men and male youth) came to the orphanage this past Monday to not only play with the kids but to do a whole lot of work as well...such as building a big tire swing, unloading a bunch of tires to help reinforce the soccer field, install some plywood in the upstairs rooms of the cabana (we were only able to haul the plywood upstairs as we ran into some problems) and help make two walkways of gravel! And let me tell you, the thing I was most excited about was the walkways, because if they had not made all those trips with the wheel barrel, guess who would have had to have done it?
Then on Friday the second part of the group came (the women and the female youth) to not only play with the kids, but to do crafts, hand out all kids of gifts and clothes and candy, and sing some songs.
And one other very important thing that happened was that this group has been praying for one of the orphans named Orlando (he needs a third surgery to open up his eyes so that he can see better, as he was born with his eyes fully closed). And not only have they been praying but they have been taking up donations at their churches. Praise the Lord that they were able to give a very sizeable love offering to help start the process of Orlando getting his eyes worked on. Oh how good is our God!
Some pics of their visit:
Pastor Andrew (left) and "part-time" missionary Steve presenting the orphanage with their generous love offering...I say part-time because Steve seems to always be down in Chiapas working on the various projects of Chiapas Ministries (the ministry that he heads up)...
Orlando is the child sitting between the ladies with the yellow shirt on...
Putting up the tire swing...
And the final thing...attaching the swing!!!
Then of course came the test rides...
Unloading the plywood and carrying it up to the second floor...
Pouring the gravel walkways...
Went and picked up and carried and bunch of used tires to the soccer field...
BUT it wasn't all work and no play...had a good meal and played some soccer...
What a great day for the kids!!!
The ladies came on Friday and just poured out so much love on the kids...here they are doing crafts...
