Children's meeting

This week has been crazy- Ellen and I have had a lot of planning to do for various events.

Monday we had a children's meeting at 5:00 p.m. We got up in the morning and Ellen started boiling beans for "cook up" while I went to the Centre to straighten out some things as well as hand out invitations for our Teen night on Friday to the students. I ran one other errand, and got home around 11:00. Then Dian and a neighbor came over, and they helped us cook pretty much the rest of the day. We made 8 loaves of bread total, and a huge pot of cook up which consists of beans, rice, potatoes, green onions, garlic, carrots, corn, and spices. It turned out really good, *Good job Ellen!*

We had only planned on cooking with the other 2 ladies, but we ended up talking about life, and particularly these two ladies struggles with being married to unsaved husbands. Ellen and I just listened a lot, and then we got to open up the bible and read and pray with them. We all agreed that as believers, we need to follow what God has to say with how to deal with tough situations, because that's the only real way to glorify him. We spent a couple of hours in the afternoon talking and discussing God's will and way for women, and how a biblical woman should act/respond to her husband, even if he is unsaved. It was so good for me, though I PRAY I will never have to be married to an unsaved man. I was so excited that God took this day that was supposed to be cooking all day, and turned it into a cooking and fellowship day with sisters in Christ, encouraging one another.

Then we had the kids come and I did a lesson on the Syrophanecian (or however you spell it)woman who wants Jesus to heal her daughter, and when Jesus asks her why he should give the children's food to dogs, she says, even the dogs eat the crumbs from the master's table. We clearly presented to the kids that you are a FILTHY RAG in God's sight, and you have No righteousness outside of Christ. The kids seemed really attentive, and I was happy about that. I think we had around 30-35 kids, and after we fed them- oh boy did they ever get crazy. They were screaming and running around, yelling. It was nuts. We had to TRY to calm them down, but we ended up playing a Guyanese game called dog and bone with them before walking the kids home around 7:30. Overall it was good, and we are happy to have these opportunities to tell kids about our Lord.

We have a Teen night coming up on Friday, and we are expecting around 40, maybe more. We are going to have invited around 120 kids total, and it could get pretty big. We have been planning this for awhile, and are praying that God will use it to stir the hearts of some of these Teens. We plan to make American Pizza, and watch the movie "Facing the Giants" with the kids, (which I purchased at a shop in town for $200 Guyanese dollars, =$1 U.S.) give them a quiz from the quiz, and discuss some major themes, and then play games and have some music. Hopefully we'll get some good time of praying with them as well. They seem pretty reverent of prayer, which is good.

It is late, and I need sleep. Tomorrow will be a busy day shopping for all of the ingredients we need for the food on Friday and then going to the Centre to work on the graduation song with the garment making girls for Thursday, and then helping Ellen with Pinatas that her class of 30 young kids is frustratingly not accomplishing very well. We need grace! We both are feeling stretched to our limits right now, and I am praying that we'll have a couple of hours in the afternoon to just spend reading and praying. There is so much going on, and we need the Spirit to work in and through us.

Thank you all so much for your prayers.