How long have we been here again?
It sure feels like we have been here a lot longer than the 6 days it actually has been.
Yesterday we visited the Pastor’s orphanage and school. He has 8 orphans and a school with 180 students. We brought the kids crickets bats and soccer balls.
Of course after bringing all these toys we just had to play with them. Yep I played my first game of cricket! Once you play it, its really not as incomprehensible as it seems.
The Pastor’s group of orphans are all boys. It was heart warming the way they swarmed (and I do mean swarmed) over the toys we brought. After we played with them for a while, they sang some songs for us and we did a couple of skits. After the skits we prayed for them and veer.
Right before we left all the orphans gathered around and prayed for us. There is nothing quite like having 8 orphans praying aloud simultaneously in hindi for you. You can’t tell what they are saying, but i think that just adds to it.
Today we are going to the Pastor’s school to hand out report cards to his kids. Its kind of a little publicity stunt for the school. As i said Veer has 180 kids enrolled at his school right now,. He has been praying for 1000 enrollments this year. Hopefully we can help (in our small way) to make that happen. He says that with 1000 enrollments he could easily support 20 orphans and his family without any uotside help.
Then this afternoon we are driving back to where we will be boarding a plane. It was 110 degrees in the sun yesterday. I can only imagine how hot it will be further south!
Thanks for you thoughts and prayers.
Mike
April 10th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
It always seems like forever until you leave, then it seems like it passed like lightening! I love hearing about the stuff going on out there! Keep up the good work, man. (:
April 12th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Cricket really? Hope you are having fun. Be safe.
April 14th, 2008 at 2:18 am
Yes cricket! Including those weird little bats and the strangely heavy tennis balls.
It was a lot of fun and of course, my team won