I have to make a brief correction: the art supplies that Beth had brought did make it. They were not in her trunk. Beth's best friend lives in Colorado and when she heard Beth was coming to Africa she put her on to this organization that creates and donates simple educational art tools to help children in the developing world. Beth contacted them and they were able to ship several bags of the materials to us.
Now, just so you know how great our God is and how His sense of timing never fails, the art supplies arrived a week later with the trunks that went missing when we flew here. When they did arrive it was the eve of a visit our team was going to make to a couple of orphan care groups. Beth spent some time looking thorugh the materials, trying to decide which one she was going to use. In the end, she used one that allowed the children to write their names in an artistic way on a simple sheet of paper.
Turns out none of the 29 children present in the first group have sponsors yet. And now we had their pictures with their names so we could track them with their leaders. It looks like we have tracked a good number of them already and we are coming back to Wooster to encourage us to sponsor these children.
You don't need to do anything now. Please, don't go to ICDI or any other website hoping to find the faces of these children because they will not be there. They are still being entered in the system. We want to help you if you are interested in helping.
So, is God awesome or what? He knew exactly which orphana group needed which art work and He did it when He so pleased, even though it appeared to us that it was a week late!
Pastor Ivanildo C. Trindade
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Beautiful children! God is wonderful in is amazing timing and wisdom! Thanks for that reminder!
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