Naomi's Village Day 4

It was Tuesday. We were waking right up to go to a place called the safe house. The safe house is a place for kids to stay if they don't have parents and people are trying to find an orphanage for them, or their is abuse in the home. So going into this I knew a lot of these kids were hurting. When we got there I saw 22 kids all nervous and really quiet. We had planned to do a VBS with all of the kids. My dad and I got to teach them some worship songs with motions, and then we had a large group bible study. Most of the older kids opened up and started to answer questions in the lesson, they were getting more involved. After the lesson, we played games. This is when all of the little kids got loud! They were not scared to be around us anymore.

After the game we got to talk to the kids and do a craft with them! I met a little girl named Praise. During the big lesson all she wanted to do was play with my hair, on my head and on my arms. If she wasn't playing with my hair, she was playing with my bracelets and watch. She followed me around the whole day! After the craft we left and went to a market.

When we got to the market we were confused because there was only one tiny shop. Then when the owners of NV came to talk to us and see how we are doing so far they showed us another market area. It was downstairs under a three story building. It was a very small market. I was expecting a huge market with so many things to buy! It was not that at all! But there were still some fun little things that I got to remind me of my Kenya friends!

After the market, we headed back to NV. We took a back road to get to Naomi's Village. I really don't know why we did, but we did. It was SO bumpy and muddy! It was actually really funny! We ended up getting stuck in the mud! Once we were out of the mud, our ride back was much smoother.

When we got to NV we ate dinner and them had some free time. We could take a nap, go to bed if we wanted, help kids with homework, whatever we wanted to do! I went to the baby room again to help feed and play with the babies while the aunties went and ate their dinner. I couldn't figure out how they could put all of the babies to bed (age 3 months to 22 months) and have them not cry and all go to bed at the same time. It was crazy! After the sweet babies went to bed I headed back to the guest house to go to bed too. Day 4 was one of my favorites! Kenya has my heart!

Our God is so big. So strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do.

Mckinley Tyler :-)