Sorry this is late, but it's still Father's Day. Hope you had a great day, we'll be home late tomorrow!
Sunday, June 20, 2010
DAY 6 RECAP
Just a quick recap of todays adventures. After spending 3 hrs driving today back and forth to 8 mile, we all had to throw a talent show, shower, have family time, pack, and lights out by 11:00PM. As you can see on the posting, it is well past 11:00PM -- and I was finally able to get the video recaps on-line, enjoy!
Our team threw a Community Outreach -- VBS. Started with about 60 kids, and wound up with about 120 or so. Everyone was so friendly, and appreciated us being there.
We returned to the orphanage we are staying at, hung out a bit, and threw a talent show/ice cream party with and for the children here at the orphanage.
Please continue praying for our team for safe travel. See you all soon!
Justine & Vickie
Our team threw a Community Outreach -- VBS. Started with about 60 kids, and wound up with about 120 or so. Everyone was so friendly, and appreciated us being there.
We returned to the orphanage we are staying at, hung out a bit, and threw a talent show/ice cream party with and for the children here at the orphanage.
Please continue praying for our team for safe travel. See you all soon!
Justine & Vickie
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
DAY 5 BRIEF RECAP -- MORE LATER
We had an early start to our day today. Breakfast at 7:00 (which meant up at 5:30/6:00), on the road at 7:30, drive to 8 mile -- 1 3/4 hrs (not quite the exciting drive last years team had). Our team spent half the day at 8 mile and a return visit to Prickly Pole Primary School. We were given the opportunity to run a 2 hour VBS this morning. Five of our team members this year were there last year -- we all had God moments visiting there.
After our VBS we went to the church we built in 8 mile last year. I almost didn't recognize the place. The outside has been trimmed out and painted, and Javon's mom planted really neat plants and flowers all around the outside of the church, and a few around the altar.
After driving 1 1/2 hrs (Jeff found a short-cut -- more like last years drive ;))We returned to New Vision Children's Home about 4:00, had dinner at 5:00, team meeting at 6:15ish and left for a youth church service at 6:45. We were asked to run the entire service tonight, so Ivelisse Reyes, Liz Newman, Danielle Amato, and Natalie Hagen lead worship -- and did an amazing job. Played the skittles game, danced to shackles -- the entire youth team (Ian, Robert, Austin, Jake, & Trevor included). After that they ran through all 3 skits, 2 people gave testimonies (Great job Ian & Natalie!) and finally Brandon preached. During the altar call one young man (Brian - 19) from New Vision gave his heart to the Lord.
Everything went really well tonight with our planned service. After service one team prayed with a young lady that was feeling ill from the orphanage, and another team was working with another young lady. Her name was Kimberly. Pastor Eric was talking to her while we wait to pray. He found out she has some medical issues -- not feeling well, seizures, etc. He dug a little deeper and found that she was having suicidal thoughts. As we were getting ready to pray, Kim started to not feel well and passed out. She was sent to the hospital with the youth leader from the church. We are waiting to hear how she's doing.
Please keep Kim in your prayers as well as the team and the girls here at the home. Everyone is worried about her.
We are off to 8 mile again in the morning, so pictures won't be posted until late tomorrow or Sunday. Sorry for the delay on the video recaps, the videos are taking forever to render.
Thank you for all your support and prayers! -- Vickie
After our VBS we went to the church we built in 8 mile last year. I almost didn't recognize the place. The outside has been trimmed out and painted, and Javon's mom planted really neat plants and flowers all around the outside of the church, and a few around the altar.
After driving 1 1/2 hrs (Jeff found a short-cut -- more like last years drive ;))We returned to New Vision Children's Home about 4:00, had dinner at 5:00, team meeting at 6:15ish and left for a youth church service at 6:45. We were asked to run the entire service tonight, so Ivelisse Reyes, Liz Newman, Danielle Amato, and Natalie Hagen lead worship -- and did an amazing job. Played the skittles game, danced to shackles -- the entire youth team (Ian, Robert, Austin, Jake, & Trevor included). After that they ran through all 3 skits, 2 people gave testimonies (Great job Ian & Natalie!) and finally Brandon preached. During the altar call one young man (Brian - 19) from New Vision gave his heart to the Lord.
Everything went really well tonight with our planned service. After service one team prayed with a young lady that was feeling ill from the orphanage, and another team was working with another young lady. Her name was Kimberly. Pastor Eric was talking to her while we wait to pray. He found out she has some medical issues -- not feeling well, seizures, etc. He dug a little deeper and found that she was having suicidal thoughts. As we were getting ready to pray, Kim started to not feel well and passed out. She was sent to the hospital with the youth leader from the church. We are waiting to hear how she's doing.
Please keep Kim in your prayers as well as the team and the girls here at the home. Everyone is worried about her.
We are off to 8 mile again in the morning, so pictures won't be posted until late tomorrow or Sunday. Sorry for the delay on the video recaps, the videos are taking forever to render.
Thank you for all your support and prayers! -- Vickie
DAY 4 PICS
Our cast of characters (and that they are) Liz Newman, Rob DiPuppo, Ian Donohue, Lizzi Donohue, Jen Bohner, Lydia Snow, Natalie Hagen, Brandon Fasig (all in black) did a fantastic job! They performed the skit 'Everything' for the teens here at New Vision Children's Home. The teens loved it so much they wanted them to do it again during 'hang out' time last night.
Angela Barbitta explained the skit - how so many things in life come between us and God and how God is always there reaching for us to come back to him.
Emma Lamanna gave her testimony following the explaination. She did a great job! It's hard to believe she's such a new Christian.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
FAMILY TIME IN DLO'S ROOM
Just a quick look at a family time devotions. It's a cozy place to meet each morning for devotions and night for family time (it's the largest area available). So, for those of you who know Dlo well, know that by the time we leave, he's a sleep.
DAY 4 RECAP
Good evening family and friends,
-where do I begin..here is a re-cap first of last night here at New Vision Children's Home. We ran a small program for the teen's here at the home there are about 13 teenagers that live here. We started the program with a crazy Skittles game that Pastor Eric and Brandon had a blast doing…of course the teen's loved every minute of it. After we went into some skits…Liz Newman performed her human video and has the opportunity to explain what she has just performed for them. After that we did the students did the "Everything" human video followed by a testimony by Emma Lamanna, I must say she did an awesome job! After a fun night with hanging with the teen's we had our family time together…what a great night. We started out with a devotional by Maddi Holland on Pleasing others and not God, after devo's we went into a time of worship and prayer which was amazing the girls prayed with each other as well as the guys…it was a wonderful time getting students to press closer to God. After prayer we of course closed with our tradition of "HERO of the DAY" this night's hero was a little different in the fact that most of the time hero is funny and comical but tonight it was a little different in the fact that students picked other students in a different light it was much more serious and heartfelt and a lot of tears…just to share one the Donohue's Ian and Lizzi, Ian said his 'hero' was his sister Lizzi because he would be home sick without her and he was glad she was here, can you say awwww and the tears flowed. This night was simply awesome!!!
Ok on to today, we started our morning with devotions by Breanna Roland, she spoke on Trust…she did a wonderful job and she is the youngest student here, pretty impressive! After devo's we headed out to Christiana Moravian Primary School which was the same school we were at yesterday, they invited us back again for another assembly. We started out with some high energy songs with puppets and then we did the skit "MASK" that was pretty funny because we had 2 of our adult men participate in this skit…Brandon Fasig played the Gangster and David Lopez played the Heavy Metal guy, we do have video proof of this. Following the skit Jen Bohner did the explanation for the students..Jen does a wonderful job with the children.
This is our last full day here at New Vision so we had to finish up our construction projects, we are all done… can you say success!!! Our kids had a blast finishing up painting the swing set, railing and walls…paint everywhere oil base, not fun!
For all of you who wanted to know if Stacey Amato could keep out of the kitchen ------ that is a negative, she is making fresh spaghetti sauce for us for our pasta tonight for dinner. They don't have spaghetti sauce here so they use ketchup yuck!
Tonight is a hang out night with the teens again, we will be hitting the basketball court for a little fun, sure our boys will not win that game. We will end our night with family time and tonight we will be giving out the care packages you all sent along, I am sure the kids will be excited to receive some goodies from home.
Okay going to sign off now…we are going to try to post a video and some more pictures later today..please be patient as the internet only works from the van. We will be going to a place called 8 mile tomorrow very early and returning late so I am not sure if we will have time to post until tomorrow night.
Continue to pray for us as we continue on this journey here in
Have a great evening and enjoy the postings!!! Justine
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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