Thursday 7/23/2015
There were so many volunteers from the church that came to
play with the kids today and donate snacks and toys. It was very encouraging to
see them want to be involved. They said they were convicted because they did
not even know there was an orphanage in Chenzhou, their own city, but Americans
came and knew before them. They said they want to come every week to bring
donations and play with the big kids.
Megan and I are both a little under the weather. Kissing and
hugging on snotty babies and kids will do that to you. I wouldn’t have it any
other way though. Everyone is exhausted. Kathy has been sick, and so has Julia.
Pray for our team. Pray that we can finish out strong as we end our time here
in Chenzhou until next time, and as we travel by train to Li Ming (6 hours) and
then another 1.5 in car. I am excited to go to the orphanage in Li Ming, but
none of us really know what to expect.. so I will write more about that later.
I got a little frustrated this morning.. My baby Emerson
that I fell in love with two years ago was adopted, and I had heard she
was adopted into Norway, the U.S. and now today France. Don’t get me wrong. I am
ecstatic she was adopted,but it is just frustrating that I have heard so many different things about where she went. They looked up her file and then came and told me. So now I am going to contact the French embassy to try and get contact with her new family. I have tons of pictures and videos that I want to make sure that they have.
Today we bought 4 washing machines for the orphanage! And
tomorrow we will buy a lot of diapers to give them. The rest of the donations
will have to wait until later so that we can decide the best things to get
them.
Tonight we went to a bridge in Chenzhou, it lights up really
pretty and there are shops and restaurants and huge groups of women doing
dances. It was quite beautiful.
Tomorrow is our last day with the kids. We will spend time
with the babies in the morning and then we will have a party with the big kids
and the nannies. We will perform, they will probably perform, we eat cake and
fruit and give the nannies their gifts. Then we will all fellowship together
and eat dinner at the orphanage.