Christmas With the Orphans

I went out yesterday to Naibor to have a little Christmas celebration with our orphans. I wanted to do something with them that my dad did with my siblings and I when we were kids. We would gather around in the evening time and he or my mom would read us a Bible story or missionary story. Instead of showing us the pictures they would give us paper and have us draw a picture of the story using our imaginations.

So the orphans and I gathered around in the main room of the house. I read the Christmas story out of my Swahili Bible. Each child had a piece of paper and drew a picture of their favorite part of the Christmas story. After they finished drawing I passed out cookies that I had made for them. I made my favorite cookies…molasses cookies. The looks on their faces was hilarious! Here in Kenya they believe molasses is only for cows. Once the children took the first bite it was just a matter of seconds before the cookies were gone. =)

Today I went out to Timau to our boys orphanage. I didn’t get to spend as much time with them, but it was fun bringing smiles to their faces!

Little Chopoo came into the room crying. I called her over and set her in my lap. I don't know why she was sad, but I soon had her smiling. She stayed in my lap the whole time.