We Had a Field Day!

Well when I say, "we had a field day" I literally mean we had a field day: ) 
Sorry, cheesey I know. But I couldn't resist. I've used that as an expression before but never literally (so I didn't want to miss the opportunity, lol!). But that's exactly what we did in Columbo, a suburb of Curitiba, a week ago. There's an orphanage that we've been able to minister at several times this year. I think we've been with either the kids or the house mothers at least 7 times since April. Which is a lot in this type of ministry. But that's what we want. We don't want kids to just see us once then we're gone. We want to  be able to really develop deep relationships with them as we love on them and as we share the Gospel with them. They're an amazing group of kids (around 40+) and house mother (6 ladies).
We've visited them at their facility and we've had them out to the camp this past year. And every time has been great.

What we did this last time, was allow the younger kids (9 and under) do a paint project with one of the girls that was here on the missions team while all of the older kids (10-19 years) were outside for a field day that we put on for them. Amber Berkley (one of the girls that was with us for 3 months on the missions team) was the coordinator of the field day and the kids had a great time! We divided all the kids into teams and had them compete against each other. It's was a blast. We also had a few of our brazilian friends helping us (and one friend from Argentina, haha!). This was the last big ministry event we're going to be able to do before Christmas and it was a great note to end the year on.

Thank you to all of our supporters who allow us to do what we're doing here in Brazil. We couldn't do it without you: )

Love Ya,
Jim