This month we are in Da Nang, Viet Nam with another team. Our teams are split up between a variety of ministries. Austin, Andrew, Jen (from our team) and Ashley (different team) are working at a marketing office here in the city every day.
The other ministries are homeschooling 5 girls from a family we are in contact with here, teaching English to the cashiers at Bread of Life (restaurant that supports the deaf in this community, gives them jobs and teaches them sign language), going to orphanages a couple of times a week, teaching English every night at UCSI (university nearby) and helping out with the Christmas Pageant that the international church is putting on December 23rd.
This is one of the English classes at UCSI we helped out with when we first arrived to Da Nang.
This was the group class we taught and sang Christmas songs and played a couple games with!
Last week we went to an orphanage/"nursing home" We took them snacks and spent a couple hours just hanging out with them and loving on them. This is
Ginelove with a couple of the older women at the orphanage.
I got to sit and talk with these beautiful women, and even though they didn't know any English it was so fun watching them communicate with each other and try to communicate with me.
This woman came up to me and was smiling, but was trying to tell me something was wrong with her body. When I asked our translator she told me that the woman was a Christian and was having a hard time because church was too far for her to walk to and no one else around her believed in God. She asked me to pray for her! After wards I asked her if I could take a picture with her and she said yes but first walked to her room to get her Bible for the picture! She stole my heart!
All of the children in the orphanage had mental or physical disabilities. A couple of the girls loved to grab our hands and go for a walk! You could see their faces light up as we walked and talked with them.
This is Jenifer with one of the little girls.
On Sunday before church Ashley and I were invited by some of our students to go to a museum about Cham and Vietnamese culture. It was very interesting and also a great opportunity to continue to build relationships with our students.
Once again, this is all the photos I could upload for now but I will do my best to post another photo blog soon!
