We were asked by Jeff Long, director of Kids International Ministries (www.kidsim.org), to help scrape and repaint the old dining room at New Faith Children’s Home. They had just finished building a new wing on the home that includes a larger dining room for the kids, new nursery and boy’s hangout (no girls allowed). And, KIM is throwing a “block party” for the neighborhood and then later in the afternoon, having a dedication ceremony. Well, there will be tours of the home for all the guests so the pealing paint in the old dining room (aka, the girls hangout, no boys allowed) needs to go. We had a little less than a week to accomplish this. We got started right away. Here are some pictures of us all hard at work.
Even the kids wanted to get involved,
they were quite helpful (not really, but they had fun).
We started with a bang and with the help of some local Filipino men we were able to have it repainted by the party.
The Party……..was great.
All the kids were dressed up in formal wear and performed dances. Some of the other performers were singers, karate and traditional Filipino dancers. The party was catered with real Filipino food (I have tried alot of new foods since I got here) and we even had ICE CREAM! (I ate two). They cut the ribbon and opened the house up for tours. For the remainder of the evening the kids ran around playing, dancing, singing songs of praise… it was beautiful.
