Thank you for praying! Our whole family went on Wednesday, and it was wonderful.
Some of the church youth who are in the theater group wore costumes and played games with the kids:
Then the choir sang and recited:
Then there were more games and skits:
Toward the end, the choir kids paired up with the kids in the audience and made crafts. Then the choir handed out the presents they had prepared. All of that was really sweet, but I can't share the photos because we're not supposed to show faces of the kids who live at the orphanage. So, like I've said before, you can imagine it.
When we got back on Wednesday, most of the teens rushed right into preparation for a three-day Christmas camp at church. Raia was so excited that they had asked her to be a helper in that this year! She came home with us after the orphanage, but just to get her things and go back to church, where she's been since then. She has gotten to sleep there with her best friends and work at the camp. Asya and Bogdan have been really enjoying days at the camp, too. Today is the last day of that.
Tomorrow is Christmas (again)!
Then, next week we'll start back to school. Our family and music school had a Christmas-to-Christmas break, even though some of the schools around here started their break later and have another week off now. Art school will doing a camp all next week, and they asked Raia to help with that, too. At first I thought she wouldn't, since her siblings aren't going to be there, and we'll be doing school and music. But then I said that she can help in the afternoons, so the excitement continues, at least for her.
Some of the church youth who are in the theater group wore costumes and played games with the kids:
Then the choir sang and recited:
Then there were more games and skits:
Toward the end, the choir kids paired up with the kids in the audience and made crafts. Then the choir handed out the presents they had prepared. All of that was really sweet, but I can't share the photos because we're not supposed to show faces of the kids who live at the orphanage. So, like I've said before, you can imagine it.
When we got back on Wednesday, most of the teens rushed right into preparation for a three-day Christmas camp at church. Raia was so excited that they had asked her to be a helper in that this year! She came home with us after the orphanage, but just to get her things and go back to church, where she's been since then. She has gotten to sleep there with her best friends and work at the camp. Asya and Bogdan have been really enjoying days at the camp, too. Today is the last day of that.
Tomorrow is Christmas (again)!
Then, next week we'll start back to school. Our family and music school had a Christmas-to-Christmas break, even though some of the schools around here started their break later and have another week off now. Art school will doing a camp all next week, and they asked Raia to help with that, too. At first I thought she wouldn't, since her siblings aren't going to be there, and we'll be doing school and music. But then I said that she can help in the afternoons, so the excitement continues, at least for her.
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Thank you for the pictures and story about how the orphanage "Christmas" went. We were praying! And, I'm sure the children are very tired from their camp but had a great time, as well! Brava to Raia to be willing to help, once again, w/ the art camp! Love to each of you and Merry Christmas!
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