Kids Fest winding down

I wanted to get a few photos on here of another of the blessings of Kids Fest. We had gotten hundreds of buckets without lids. These are very hard for us to use...we really need lids. So Don offered the team a bucket for each child at the end of the week. It worked out so well. The team leaders took the crafts the kids did each day, plus the coloring books they worked in and put them all in a bucket each day. Yesterday, they put everything, plus scriptures in each bucket and the children went home with them.It was a job, to say the least, to keep everything sorted, but the leaders did an excellent job. And the team said, on the way home from there last night (Friday), they saw the buckets all over the place, being washed and used to carry water to homes. Isn't it neat how the Lord works things out?

Tomorrow, Sunday, will be the last day. They will hold a service for the children and their parents. They will also give them a sandwich and drink after the service. So the parents will be a part of what went on.

The planning for Kids Fest took months and months. Both on the stateside and on the Haitian side. On this end, they registered kids, got names, sizes, parents names and did a complete paper on each child coming. Then they finished walls (for security), built an outhouse, which the children were in awe over. (Many had never seen an outhouse, much less one that was so very nice). The committee here made arrangements for and found 40 volunteers to head up each team. They found cooks, they arranged for the food, they did a TON of work here. The team in the US had to make up schedules, plan activities, work on messages for the children for each day, get the music set up they wanted, then send it here to have someone translate it, then get it on their computer to use a projector for displaying it. They had to find and purchase all the craft items. Then they had to arrange things into the 40 groups of children and leaders, get the logistics set up, and probably a lot of things which I have no idea about. I know there were letters and emails going back and forth for months prior to the actual Kids Fest.

I don't know how many, but I know there were quite a few children who wanted to know Jesus in a real and personal way throughout the fest. It all would have been worth it if even one child had come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. But from what I heard, there were many. God really used the Orchard Hills team to reach out to a lost community.

After tomorrow I hope to add a couple more photos so you can see the parents with the children at the service. Please keep these kids and their parents in your prayers, that the Lord will touch and open hearts to His saving grace.