...And The Gift Goes On...

Months of preparations + 3 Christmas parties + over 1000 people + hundreds of gifts given + hundreds of smiling faces + a day of celebrating the gift of Jesus = a blessed day for many people. You can see the joy on the faces of the kids and their parents. At one of the parties a mother was so overwhelmed with joy and thankfulness that she cried. It was hard to pick only a few pictures to show because every picture captures the joy and excitement. Their faces are priceless! Because of poverty many of these people would not have had the opportunity to experience some of the joys of Christmas. We praise God for these events and pray that the seeds of Jesus that were planted would continue to grow so that others will learn of this gift.

Thank you everyone who made this day possible. May God bless you more because of your generous and obedient heart!

Medical Mission

Everyone who helped out! It was an awesome team of people!

People waiting in line to register

The Pharmacy

Medical

De worming

Lab

Dental - Many teeth were extracted

When I asked the Dr. how old he thought this little girl was he said "maybe 3 months". The mom told us that she just turned 1 year in Sept. She is so malnourished.You may remember Danica, the severely malnourished girl that I was holding in the dump site. The picture was on our other blog. It was Danica that gave me the burden to start the Giggles program for malnourished children. Unfortunately because of corruption we were shut down and this past summer Danica died. Well, this is another little girl from the same area and in a very similar situation as Danica. Please pray that God will give us wisdom and show us what to do in this situation. This little girl needs help and treatment now.

Never Land

Never Land is a massive squatter area with no road access. It was a former dump site between two municipalities. Neither of these municipalities wanted to claim it as their own so it got the name Never Land and many squatters now inhabit the place. You have to take this small raft/boat to get to the other side. It costs one peso to cross over. When it is raining really hard and the water moves fast you are unable to cross so there is a very sketchy zip line available.
We met another missionary from IT that has a ministry in Never Land with his church. Every Sunday they hold an adult Bible study, a youth Bible study and children's program.