July 18, 2008

 Sorry to all my faithful readers (my two moms) these pics and stories are going to be repeated on our family blog.  It will be talked abou in our next newsletter but I couldn’t wait.

Saturday our church and youth group here in Madang did an outreach to a settlement area close by.  Many of our church members live in this settlement area and so there was allot of excitement to show the community the love of God. 

   The outreach primarily to feed. I think the craziest thing here is for a church to feed 300 people in PNG it takes hours of hard work.  You can’t just go to the Costco and get bread or frozen chicken and put food together.  The woman here gather together early in the morning and will cook over an open fire for up to 8 hours to prepare.

     I had just received some packages of balloons (thanks Monica and mom) and I brought them all with me to the settlement.  I started blowing them up and handing them out to 3 or 4 kids.  Within a half our there were over 100 pikinini’s (children) with balloons.  These children have nothing some of them don’t have clothing, but them came out in force to get a balloon, eat and hear the music and testimonies. 

    This picture below is not a good picture but this young boy really tugged at my heart.  He was so hungry he just held his plate and shoveled the food inside his mouth.  He was obviously malnuritoused by looking at his face enflated stomach. He barley smiled and showed no sign of joy, but quickly ran up for second helping, then third.  I can hardly wait to go back to the settlement to feed him again.