Monday and Tuesday update

We have been experiencing significant internet issues the last couple of days here at our hotel so I am way behind on the updates.  The system is so slow I am unable to add pictures at this time.  Will try again later to add them.

It’s Monday morning in Greece.  As usual our team met at 7:15 AM for devotions, testimony, and planning for the day.  At 8 we had breakfast and then at 8:45 we were in our rooms ready to receive the kids.  During our devotions on Sunday, Chip McWilliams from the Oklahoma City team shared about perseverance.  It was a timely topic as we are in our next to the last day of our ministry and our personal batteries are running low.  Some of our team has been battling colds and took some time off yesterday, but all are back in

Oklahoma Team’s tour of Corinth on Saturday

I will try and add pictures and information on this tour.  The Portland team will be touring Corinth on Wednesday.

Sunday’s ministry time and that of today (Monday) is much the same.  The elementary children continued to learn new songs and heard new stories about God’s power to provide, to comfort, heal, forgive, and to love us forever. The children also began practicing the songs they are going to sing in front of their parents during the closing program Tuesday evening. The babies, toddlers, and pre-school children continued to play with toys, hear stories, watch Veggie Tales, and take naps.

Tuesday Final day with the kids

We had our final team devotion and testimony sharing time this morning.  We spent quite a bit of time going over todays schedule as there are a lot of little details to pay attention to.  One big event in the lives of the families here is that today at 3 PM we will place all of the supplies that we brought with us and let the families take whatever they can use.  Anything that is left we will give to a local church.  Parents are blessed by this "give away" and they are already anticipating it.  It takes a lot of preparation to make it run smoothly.  Then at 4:45 PM we take the kids into the main meeting room for the program they have prepared for their parents. Emotions are quite high today as we know we will be saying good bye to these precious children. I am already being asked if we will be back in two years.