(It is now Friday, and I finally have a spare minute to tell you what these photos are of! lol! Sorry to leave you hanging!! )
This is the sock puppets that were made the first day of VBS. I wasn't actually there that day, I stayed behind at the building to paint. The puppeteer is CeCe, Dan and Rachel's youngest daughter. Rachel picked Jackie and I up Wednesday morning and took us to the grocery store to shop for what we needed to make lunch for the team. CeCe came along.
Isn't she as cute as a button? :)
We go through about 5- 2 liters every dinner. Since Rachel was shopping for the dinner she was making for us, and we were doing a cooked lunch (our only cooked lunch while here) we had 10 bottles of pop.
Surprisingly we were able to find everything we needed to make two kinds of soup for the team.
The b&b where we are staying has a rather large kitchen that is well equipted. They have a large gas stove, but unfortuantely had no idea how to use it! It took 1 hour to get the stove working. Mind you we were making lunch, not dinner!! Yes Jackie and I were panicing!! Raw chicken, onions and potatoes are not appetizing!!
I had Denae (who is staying at my house watching my dog) hunt down my recipes a day before and post them on Facebook for me. So I was able to use my phone to view the recipes and stay on track. What a mess I made though!! I had Jackie peeling onions for the first time in her life. She was crying so hard tears were running down her cheeks! So funny! Actually we were both crying like crazy. I should note that all the produce here is like 1/4 to 1/2 the size of what we have in the US. It's like the US produce is on steroids!
This is the chicken soup cooking. Actually it's really just chickens cooking so that we had broth and meat for our chicken rice soup.
This is the potato ham soup. Though it was just started and is really just butter and potatoes so far. lol!
We finally got everything made and transported (very carefully with Jackie in the back of the truck watching our pots) to the building around 1:15pm. The soups were all still hot which was great. All our dinners so far the food has been cold by the time we get to eat it, and with it being so rainy and cold, it was good to have hot soup. This is Bill getting some soup. He went bananas over it. He has been working every day, all day on the building. As you can see he had been fighting with the paint sprayer on Wednesday, thus all the black paint all over him. We are spraying the ceiling black.
Some of the guys eating lunch. The little boy is a boy that comes to Dan's Saturday program. His school uniform was dirty so he couldn't go to school on Wednesday. So Dan picked him up and he came and worked with us all day. Such a bright, good kid, who happens to live in a shack in one of the settlements. He has been such a great help with our VBS every day.
Two big pots of soup, and two little pots of soup. Mikki is a vegetarian, so I made a meatless version of both soups for her.
I think I mentioned the other day that everything is covered with razor wire here and walls, electic fencing etc. So here is a picture of a very typical compound. Rolled razor wire and electric fencing. There are always security company signs on every wall also. This happens to be where Key of Hope's offices are and where the building we are working on is. There is a locked gate and a guard there 24 hours a day. Every home has the same deal, though not the guard.
So extremely different from the US.
Here is a home close to where we do our VBS.
This is where we do our VBS. As you can see I have circled the settlement where the kids are coming from. It's really not as far away as it looks, and you should zoom in and really look closer. This is a neighborhood with large nice homes, but right in their backyard is shack after shack.
Ah the rain and mud. On Tuesday, this truck was stuck up to it's axle's in the mud at this location. The team got all around it and lifted it up out of the mud to free it. The kids have been so dirty and muddy, and the whole team has been covered with the mud. It's been hard to have VBS in mud puddles.
Krisie helping set up the tent. The kids are starting to arrive and playing in the lower part of the field or mud pit. Soccer is so huge and so they love to play with the soccer balls that we brought with us. Each day we have let them take some home, which is huge!!
Nick also helping to set up the muddy tent.
Most of the kids change clothes before they come out of their school uniforms. The reason is that they only have one uniform and if it is dirty they cannot go to school. Children learn to keep very clean. These girls didn't change before coming and their uniforms are WHITE!! Yikes.
Emily and Mikki
This cute little one is 2 years old. He was brought to VBS strapped to the back of his 8 year old sister.
Kids all playing with various balls in the muddy field. I mean completely slippery wet wet wet mud.
There are quite a few girls who bring their younger siblings strapped to their backs or in their arms. These girls aren't very old either.
So we had 109 children at VBS Wednesday. They learned about David and Goliath, and how they can have strength with God's help. The craft was large foam cross necklaces that they stuck foam sticker to.
Rachel made dinner for us Wednesday. It was amazing and so good to have two homecooked meals in one day. I think everyone really got filled up and warmed up finally.
The building is coming along, but we have had so many problems with the leaking roof making the paint run, the paint just not drying because we are having so much rain, and the paint sprayer not working. It was been quite an adventure but there is always something to keep us busy there. God keeps sending people to help us with different equiptment, which is just amazing.
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