It's About the Children: Best Day Yet

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Best Day Yet

Today was my most favorite day of the trip so far, but also the hardest. We had at least 450 kids show up today. Today's theme was walking on water. So for our craft today we were going to give every child a pair of flip flops and have them decorate them with strips of material. Well it took us the whole time just to size the kids and pass out the flip flops, a lot longer of a process than we had originally anticipated. Today was the day I had been waiting for for months. The idea of having the flip flops for a craft was my most favorite, because the kids would be walking away with something that they really needed. I was so excited about today, until half way into it when we ran out of the larger sizes. I had to tell kids we did not have a pair to fit them. They were shoving their feet into flip flops that were up to 4 sizes too small. We had a few that a smaller size was just not an option and I had to watch them w

alk away upset because they did not get a pair. It broke my heart!

A little girl checking out her new flip flops after having them put on.

She is holding on tight to her flip flops and her baby brothers!!!

My sizing chart I made to measure the kids feet with. You see the gap in the middle, that is the sizes we did not have so we had to go bigger which caused us to run out of the bigger sizes so fast.

2 comments:

Unknown said...: Love this idea too Beck! The fact that they need shoes so badly and yall were able to fill that need. I wish there could have been more too. Maybe this idea can go again! Yea right you drink out of something besides a sterilized bottle! Love yall! Robyn; August 9, 2007 at 8:34 AM
Anonymous said...: I agree with the comment made. And how many times did you baptize that coconut in "GERM-X" before you even touched it!!; August 10, 2007 at 10:27 AM

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I grew up in a Christian home where I was drug to church every time the doors were open. I spent my childhood trying to follow the Christian ways that my parents had drilled into my head, but when I was 10 I made a choice all on my own to accept Christ as my Savior and follow and serve Him for the rest of my life. I continued to follow after God, and when I was 15 I knew God was calling me into full time ministry. In my mind I believed their were only 2 options for me; a children’s pastor or a youth pastor. For 10 years I went around and around and around because I let fear stop me from doing what God created me to do. Finally I got tired of not going anywhere and I asked God what is it that you want me to do. He told me He wanted me on the mission field. This was very hard for me to hear because I spent my entire life with a fear of leaving the United States, I grew up saying I was never going to another country. I put aside all my fears and said O.K. God I will go. My first trip out of the United States God sends me by myself, I cried for a week before I left, I cried on the plane the whole way down to Honduras, but once I got there and I experienced what God had waiting for me it was greater than anything I had experienced in the States. After setting foot on foreign soil I knew thats where I was spending the rest of my life. I still was not completely open to what God had for me I still had some restrictions. We had a sermon series called The HPC Apprentice; 4 people out of the church were chosen and I was 1 of the 4, we spent several weeks just doing whatever was asked of us, serving the church, serving the community and then at the end the church voted on who they thought should win. I did not win, but the guy who did win won a trip to Swaziland, Africa. After finding out what the prize was I was so glad I did not win, because I had also spent my entire life saying I was never going to Africa. Well, over the next 6 months God begins to work on me and all of a sudden I am now telling my sister I really want to go to Africa. My sister had a friend who was going to Africa in 2 months so she called her up and told her I wanted to go to Africa, so she said let me see what I can do. Next thing I know I’m receiving a phone call saying I hear you want to go to Africa. Within a month I had raised every penny I needed for the trip and within another month I was on a plane to Africa. Do you know I made it to Africa before the guy who won the trip to Africa? When God has a plan He makes away. So 2005 was the first year I went to Africa, I went home from that trip with a calling on my life to reach, serve, nurture and love the children of Africa. I spent six months living in Mozambique, Africa I returned with an even greater passion to reach the unforgotten children around the world. After returning from Africa I co-founded Red Thread Ministries to help those who are without means to help themselves. We work with children domestic and international, sharing the love of Jesus. For more information and ways to get invovled checkout our website at www.redthreadministries.org