On Thursday, we met with the ladies from Sugar village again. This time it went very well. Elizabeth, Beatrice, and Christopher were the three Zambians who all showed up, but this time we also had eight kids join us. We told the story of Jesus' birth and then we decided to act it out with the kids and everybody loved it! The mood was much lighter than it has been in the past few weeks and we are hoping that we were able to break through a little bit.
On Friday, we met with the women at Tobacco Farm and with Lizzy in Singanga village. Both of these meetings went well. Lizzy ended up retelling the story in Lozi four times to the children! She then asked us if she could keep our drawing so that she could tell it to others.
We had a tutoring party on Saturday, which consisted of dressing up the students to do a nativity story reenactment as well as making paper chains and glitter star ornaments. In the afternoon we had a Christmas party with the children's home. During the evening we showed the nativity story movie and then we shared the God story through candles. It went very well and we had a huge turnout of roughly 70 people from the villages!
After our Christmas morning service on Sunday, we went over to a Faith's house for a Christmas party. Faith is also with Love's Door and it was so wonderful to just enjoy the food and the fellowship without planning anything! And finally, we finished our celebrations with a Love's Door get together on Monday night. We had a nice dinner and then we did a small gift exchange.
The parties have been great but we are ready to get back to normal life. We are excited for all of the things that will happen in 2017!
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| Lizzy telling the story of Jesus' birth |
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| Some of the tutoring students dressed up as nativity animals |
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| Candlelight service |
Merry Christmas &
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