After devotions and breakfast, we stopped by Ruimveldt Children's Home. We had clothes and medicine to drop off, and we wanted to see the children! We were blessed beyond measure by the kids. After holding them, talking to the bigger ones, and touring the orphanage (which might I add was beautifully cleaned by the ladies who work there), the children began to sing for us and we joined it. It was an absolutely wonderful time of praise to our God who has carried us throughout this entire trip so far and will continue to!! We said our goodbyes and made our way to Hope Home for our last day there.
We arrived at Hope a little before lunch and began the same jobs we held yesterday. Today, we had another team from Texas join us at Hope as well. More hands are always a great thing!! We finished sock puppets and helped the other team do their craft project as well. We also brought out some drawing paper, markers and crayons which were a huge hit! I have lots of new pictures to hang in my dorm room back home : ) Unfortunately, the goodbye was inevitable and when it came, we made sure to give lots of hugs and reassured many sad eyes that God-willing, we will be back next year.
After leaving Hope, we quickly made our way back into the city, picked up the food, and headed onto the streets to feed the homeless men, women, and children. Feeding the homeless is always such a moving experience for everyone involved. Just a cool story... we were given two HUGE pots of food to feed the people with and, at first, were having a hard time giving it away. We started asking Derrick if there was anyway we could save it until we made it to another feeding on Sunday. He instantly told us to stop worrying and that God always provides for His people. About that time, we pulled up to our last stop with an entire pot of food left. We opened the door to feed what we thought was going to be about five or ten people and instead, a gigantic line grew. In one single stop, we gave away the ENTIRE pot of food that before had.+taken us the entire afternoon of feeding to get rid of. God certainly had His hand in that experience.
Tomorrow, we will be making our way to Plastic City which will be a first for all of us. We are anxiously awaiting what God has in store for us there, and the many new people that will forever become part of our hearts and lives.
Once again, thank you all so much for the thoughts and prayers that our continued to be said on our behalf.
Here are a few pictures from the day!
 |
| Some of the finished sock puppets! |
 |
| Two of the children enjoying some ice cream!! |
 |
| Reshma and I! |
No comments:
Post a Comment