Day 8: Piñata Fun for Everyone!

Hi everyone!

It’s nice to have the opportunity to update you all on what the team did on Saturday.

After an amazing day of waves and sun, we headed back to work on Saturday.

During the morning, we had the opportunity to do something a little different. God works in ways sometimes we cannot even imagine. During our visits to the Goldtree Liebes school, one of the staff members came and talked to us about going to work with a nearby community (in Panchimalco) also teaching how to make piñatas and talking about God and our work here. So we had the chance to do this Saturday morning, it was different because of the ages of the people we were working with this time, they were all 20-years-old and up, but they were all happy to be there with us, learning how to make the piñatas and learning more about what we had to share with them. It was such a blessing. They all had a great time hearing our stories about Canada and had many questions of their own. It was a great start to the day.

In the afternoon we had the opportunity to go back to one of the orphanages the team had visited last year. The heat was giving us a bit of a hard time at that point of the day, but we were static to be able to spend some time with the kids and sharing not only God’s love with them, but also sharing how much we all also love them.

We set up different stations so that they could enjoy many different things, we were making piñatas with them, salvation bracelets, sharing some music with them and also just having some girl time with some of them, doing their nails and their hair, etc. Mostly, we were just glad to be there and enjoy their smiles, their energy and just to be the ears that listened to their amazing survival stories, they all have gone through very difficult times, and yet, they still manage to be so loving and kind. It was very difficult to have to leave the orphanage, it never feels like we have enough time, because we are just having so much fun, time goes by really fast. On the way back, many of us were feeling very emotional and reflective, after having spent some time with all of those amazing kids.

I ask that you keep them in your prayers, as well as the rest of the amazing people that we have met throughout this journey thus far, God has a purpose for them and no matter what difficult things they go through, with him by their side, they will be more than triumphant.

With love,
Karen and team.