15 Points!

I am so excited about the accomplishments of the kids in the village! I wanted to try something new during our upcoming kid's party at the church and was not sure how it would go. Usually for our kid's parties the girls gather to paint their nails and the boys head upstairs to watch a "Guys movie" basically any film that is not Barbie. This weekend for our party I previously handed them a study guide of things we had studied like "How many men did God use to write the Bible" "How many parts does the Bible have and what are they called?" "How many books are in the Old Testament, how many in the new and how many books total are in the Bible?" There was also two Bible verses to remember and 6 other questions. Each question was scored with different points and if every question was answered correctly the score would be 15 points. I told the kids that we would have a store set up in one of the rooms and they could use their points to buy a present. The gifts were candy, to a bottle of nail polish, to a bouncy balls or a pack of army men. 15 points could buy one thing but from anything displayed. I told Cameron that I wasn't sure how many kids would actually get the full 15 points since it was the first time we did this and we weren't giving any grace towards mistakes. It was a "You know the information or don't know it" type of test. I was completely wrong! We had 25 kids show up to the party and 11 kids got all 15 points and the rest of them got 8 to 12 points. Most had 11 points as they missed the harder 3 point memory verse and got one question wrong but all 25 showed me that they retained much of the Bible lesson and this was awesome to hear. We have two new boys attending church now and they're excited to participate in the lessons. Thank you for praying for this village and for the kids who are amazing and wonderful to work with.

Also I want to again say thank you to a church who gave a special gift to us that allowed us to purchase this heater for the room we sleep in and meet with the children in. Your gift has allowed us to continue working in the winter and it's been a remarkable gift! So again, thank you!