Today was our second day in the village. We survived our first night sleep and were back at it teaching the kids in the morning. On our second day of teaching, we taught the kids about Jesus Calming the Storm. The kids made waves out of blue streamers and helped us illustrate the story as we read it to them.
Each day, after we taught our team gathered to paint the outside of their school buildings (I've posted before pictures below).
It was really cool to see how the buildings came to life with some fresh coats of paint. We were also able to build relationships with some of the partners and fathers of kids in the school who came out to help us paint.
On this day, we were waiting for the paint to be mixed. Every day when we started painting, the kids were dismissed for lunch. Often, there were many kids who didn't have 'lunch', or their lunch was a bag of popped corn. Needless to say, may of them had plenty of time on their hands during their lunch. So, the kids usually gathered around us while we were painting. As a group of kids crowded around us, I felt let to pull them aside and talk with them. All the sudden, I started singing 'Jesus Loves Me' with them and they were singing along. It was so incredible. To hear their beautiful voices repeat after me was so special.
After painting for a couple hours each day, we had events planned in the afternoon. A few of the days we went on home visits to people who attended the church that met at the St. Peter's School on the weekend. We visited a couple of families that day. One family had their great granddaughter visiting from Harae. Another family we visited made these beautiful metal tins as a project. The man, Sekuru (means grandfather) , was selling his metal tins for $4.
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