1st MIRACLE

So on Saturday we went to Budondo.  It's a small village about 45 minutes from Jinja.  We go there to do a Bible study with the children.  About 100 children come every week to join in the teachings.  We start in a group and sing songs, this week the boys were separated from the girls and the boys sang to the girls in honor of Women's Day.  It was pretty awesome!

After we have a song service the children are split into 3 groups.  0- 5 yrs, 5-10 yrs, and over age 10.  I had the over age 10 group.  We read John 2, Jesus's 1st miracle changing the water into wine.  The kids are so wise.  They all knew the story, but this lesson has a great visual.

Plain old jug of water!

Grape juice packets!

Mix them together!!

Wine!! (or grape juice)

The result was 48 children bewildered that we had managed to turn an ordinary jug of water in "wine"..  Some of the children asked if this is how Jesus had performed this miracle!  It was awesome!!! The kids and I both had so much fun!  

After we were done our lesson, I gave the kids all bracelets my friend's daughter Alyssa had made for my to bring to Africa!  The kids were so happy!

Going to Budondo is such a rewarding experience!  I will be going to do family visits on Wednesday and Friday this week!

Thanks for all your support and prayers!  

A day in my shoes

Sorry I have not been blogging a lot but this place seems to keep me rather busy.  April one of our babies got reunited with her family so the total baby count is down to 9. :(  Of the remaining babies David has the measles so consequently Zion and Anna the two tiny ones have gone to stay at the volunteer coordinators home.  So really I have 6 babies in the nursery right now~!

My day starts at 7:30 and I get the babies up, diapered, changed and then feed them their bottles.  We then have play time until 9 when we change their diapers and put them down for a nap.
10:30 up from nap, change diapers and then we start with bath time.  This can so be so fun for some of the babies, and so challenging for others!  
11:00 all the babies have a bottle, then play time until 12:30
12:30 All the babies eat.  The smaller ones we feed, the 1 yr olds try to feed themselves.  They make a huge mess but it's great that they are gaining independence. They have quite a variety of meals, mashed potatoes, carrots, mashed sweet potato, bananas, avocado, g nut sauce, corn posho, pumpkin.. the list goes on.
Then we give the babies a wipe down, re diaper them and it's off for a nap.. (time for us to clean the floor and the highchairs..
The little babies sleep from 1-3
The big babies sleep 2-4
I get break from 1-4
3:00 little babies take a bottle
4:00 I get the big babies up change their diapers and then give them a bottle.
They we play until 6 when all the babies eat, and drink, and bathed diapered and put to bed.

That's my day... it's kind of fantastic..

Mama Esther with Jane and David

Kaity with David, Joanne and Rosie

I'm under there somewhere.. I'm a jungle gym

me and baby David he has the measles :(