Today was the second official game day with my girls at Timbutini Care Point. What a great day of food, fun and fellowship. Of course I forgot my camera, so I will just have to tell you what happened.
We started the day with only a few girls, I was almost sure they had forgotten to come early. I had 3 show up and then no one came for almost an hour. As the girls began arriving I let them choose a nail polish (thanks Jeanette) and painted their nails. This is special of course because they are not allowed to wear nail polish at school and as they are on a school break for 3 weeks, it was ok. Most of them chose pinks or purples but I did have a few choose green or blue nail polish.
As more girls showed up I began the games, Skip Bo, Crazy Eights, Slap Jack, and Go Fish. The winners were given prizes and so I had to pack the games up quickly, they were winning so fast, that I ran out of prizes. At the end of game time, I had 4 girls who didn’t get a prize and they were looking rather upset. They ended up getting the special decks of cards they were using to play. Thankfully this is all it took to make them happy again.
I had prepared ahead of time gift bags for each of the girls, which had sweets, pencils, stickers, a toothbrush, an apple, chocolate. I bought lots of munchies for our princess movie. I passed out snacks and the gift bags and we started watching Enchanted (thanks Carolyn)
I have been working with these girls on memorizing Scriptures and this week there was a small exception, I had them memorize the gospel bracelets and what they meant. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s a bracelet with six colors; black, red, white, green, blue, and yellow. The black represents out sin, the red is the blood of Jesus, the white is our hearts when they are clean after excepting Jesus, the green is growing as a Christian, the blue is baptism, and the yellow represents eternal life in Heaven with God. Each girl that could tell me that in English was given a large chocolate bar and they worked very hard to get that chocolate. I am so proud of them. I would say about 3 quarters of them memorized all that. In fact so many had memorized it that I ran out of chocolate bars and had to get more for the rest of the girls.
All in all it was a successful and fun day.
Christine: Nice to briefly chat on facebook yesterday (sorry, my connection died).
Glad the game day went so well. You are doing a vital work there. Bonus points that you can have fun doing it! 🙂
Praying for you!
Janet
How refreshing to read how happy these girls are with small gifts. God bless you for what you accomplished with them. We are proud of you.
Carmella
Christine,
Thanks for the update. Glad to hear it’s not all slaving at the salt mines there! Hope to see you when you get back to hear about your time and how God has been using you to build into the lives of these girls.
Mike