Hey everyone! Hope all is well with you! The Philippines has been absolutely wonderful and my team and I are taking our journey together one step at a time. Today I went to a feeding with one of my teammates named Hope and a few other people who we didn’t know before from Taiwan! It was really neat getting to meet them and have a twenty minute or so drive with them to talk about how the international school they go to works and how they got to where they are now! So here’s a break down of how feedings work. Usually 8 or so people ride to a location together with two huge containers of hot & yummy lentil soup and once we’ve made it to our set location we yell “FEEDING!” super loud out the car windows and children and adults come running with bowls, cups, bags, containers, etc. They all line up and they are so beautiful. I love looking each of them in the eye and thinking about who they are inside and what their story is. Most of them are so young that they can’t talk so they just give you the biggest smile of all. They are the most grateful people and I am learning so much from seeing how they handle life through their tough situations. It’s a crazy, awesome, God filled experience to see with your own eyes, let me tell you. Feedings are actually one of my favorite ministry opportunities to do here as well as the nursery. I see God through the children I am smiling with and how He is working through them. Community here has been a really beautiful thing to see. Everything is face to face and people actually communicate. At the feeding today a little boy took me for a ride on his styrofoam raft across a trash filled river. How crazy awesome is that? I felt like I was dreaming or in a movie because honestly doing that is something I have always wanted to do. I see photos of people crossing rivers in neat countries all the time and today I was one of those people!! Like what in the world! Unfortunately I didn’t have my phone on me but one the girls from Taiwan took a pic of me from afar so I will have to get it from her to show you guys! I seriously couldn’t stop smiling on the wobbly raft. We would pass people’s huts on stilts and they would look over and wave excitedly. In that moment I thought how crazy it would be to be the woman I passed by on the raft, sitting in my hut, hand washing clothes, and randomly looking over to see a white girl (me) on a raft passing by. Like stuff like that doesn’t happen very often you guys.. And I live for stuff like that. I also met a down syndrome girl at the feeding and she was super sweet. She had an Angry Birds umbrella and a big smile on her face waiting for soup. I didn’t catch her name but her smile said it all. I hope you now know why my day at the feeding was so awesome. God is forever incredible. Can I get an amen?
🙂 Peace out brothers and sisters. God bless you.
