Wednesday, October 29, 2008

This is An Aunty! :)

Aunty Nicky and I are officially becoming Nigerian! We have the pictures to prove it! In my last blog, I mentioned that we received a new three year old girl named Favor into our ministry . . . well "The Baby" as she is affectionately called by everyone is settling in quite well! Our big girls LOVE having a little sister to hold, feed, bath, carry around and take care of. Mama Sati is loving it as well! She loves "her little baby!" Praise the Lord for rescuing this little girl and bringing her into such a warm and loving environment! Back to Favor in a moment . . .
This week in our ministry is Spiritual Emphasis week, with lots of meetings, seminars, days of prayer and fasting that all of the staff are required to be at . . . if you do the math, that means that the children are left on their own . . . this would be one example of a cultural difference between Africa and America . . . you get in trouble if you leave children unattended in American, while in Africa it is perfectly normal.
Anyways, Nicky thankfully convinced Manager that we didn't need to be at the business meeting today, and instead we would be better used spending the day in Gyero with the children since the rest of the staff was going to be at the business meeting . . . basically, four white girls watching 50 kids! How funny is that . . . well, the kids were at school for at least half of the day, meaning we were left with only Favor, and the four new girls . . . for the 4 of us to handle and man they can be a handful . . . Favor was a bit cranky, so we tried to get her to sleep, but she didn't want to have anything to do with sleeping in her bed she wanted to be "backed". I am not going to explain what that means, just check out the pictures . . . :)




All I have to say is that, the village people got a huge kick out of watching Nicky and I take turns walking around trying to get Favor to fall asleep! It was pretty funny when I walked up to a Mama in the village and asked her to show me how to tie the fabric to get Favor to stay on, SHE laughed so hard! Like I said "we are becoming Nigerian!"



It was a fun day, and I LOVE being in the village, it is such a peaceful and beautiful place, and it is so great to be around all of our children and be reminded of how GREAT God is . . . each of them comes from a different background, many of them terrible, and yet now, they have a home and a loving family! Praise the Lord!

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