Day 5 of camp complete!

Well today was our last day of camp, and God did some pretty cool things.

It started when Ray (one of our camp girls) came in with a large bag of tamarinds. She gave it to Heidi and I, saying it was a thanks from her mom for the english lessons we had done.

We went through our verses and songs, and a rousing rendition of "Going on a Lion Hunt" (the kids love when we come across the lion and they get to scream).

The lessons all seemed to go well, there are always smiles on everyone's faces.

After lunch we gave them their presents that the team had worked into the night to put together (a combo of fun and practical: toothbrush, pencil, eraser, crayons, bandaid, glowstick, candy, stickers, etc). They also each got a stuffed turtle (donated by a generous teacher before we left), and heaven help anyone who tries to pry a turtle out of one of those kids' hands! They were immediately attached.

A neat moment was showing the kids what a glowstick was. They'd never seen one, so heidi and I did a demonstration, letting them cup their hands around a glowing glowstick to see it at work. The looks of amazement and excitement was so worth it.

When they all had their packages, Suradet asked if anyone wanted to accept Jesus. One of the teen boys from Heidi and my group came forward. Praise God! There's now a party going on in Heaven. We're curious to see if any of the children will come to church on Sunday, so more on that later!

Shortly after, we had a soul-quieting moment when we were asked to each pray over every individual child. It was amazing. I've never really been asked to bless anyone in my life, and now I've blessed 45 children!

We said our goodbyes after that, watching all the kids pile into what Ruth Anne has coined "the orphan mobile". It will probably hit us harder tomorrow that we won't see many of these kids again. Though, Suradet has asked us to do this all again next year, for even more children! WOO!

God is good!

Megan.
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