We are expecting about 6 people from N. Shelby Baptist Church (including their pastor, Allan Murphy) to partner with us on this year's trip to Curacao. We look forward to serving alongside of them!
Hello Doris and Gene! Thank you for your note. And thank you for offering to help in any way you can. Right now we are waiting for the OK from Holland for the vacation plan budget. In the meantime we are trying to get big foam boards to make the animals to decorate the yard. Also we should order the material from Gospel Light soon. That will be around next week Monday or Tuesday. Once we have the material, I will email you a list of things that we can do way in advance, for instance, for the arts and craft. It would be great if you and yours can take care of that for the five days for all age groups - if possible, that is. What do you think. You may also put a program together for the ladies if you will. If there are hand outs you may send them early on to be translated, a recipe, songs for more or less a 2 hour program. We are thinking of buying material of African print to make dashikis for the leaders. Is it a good idea for us to mail you the material for your group so you can sew it over there? Is that easier than for you to send the measurements of your group so we can sew them over here? What do you think. What we will also do is make some orders from the Gospel Light catalogue. May we use your address for the orders? You can bring the stuff down when you're coming. Is that a good idea? Is there anyone in your group good at painting faces? We will have a face painting day: lions, zebra's, monkeys, etc. Thanks for all the pictures, Gene. Doesn't Doris look like a movie star? We are not so well organized yet to have pictures of our leaders. Lud (the lady coordinating our volunteers in Iglesia Grasia Abundante) is breathing down my neck about recruiting people. But we are so busy for the next two weeks. As soon as March is here, we will start concentrating on VBS. We will be having a workshop with all the rules, age groups and their leaders, list with specific tasks, etc. and I will send you a translated copy. Would you also like a list with basic papiamentu words so you can talk a little bit with the kids? I can ask my daughter Lisa to do that with the pronunciation in phonics. Thank you again for everything, especially your prayers - we really need that. God is good! Have a very pleasant evening. Say hello to everyone - tell them how much we appreciate their coming here. Greetz from Cesar too. Emma |
