Philippines Day 2

WHAT A DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! This morning we began our day with devotions at Pastor Les and his wife Sara Lee's church...They are the local missionaries here in Cebu......We had a time of praise and worship led by an awesome Filipino guy, who thinks he is American named Phillip......He plays guitar by ear and can play just about anything..........

After the devotional time, we headed out to a Very poverty stricken area where the church does a kids club......I was the first to walk into the club and the kids went nuts like we were celebrities......They threw dried rose petals at us...unbeknowst to me and I got a big mouth full....not very tasty........

Then they presented each of us with hand made shell necklaces..They worked on the the night before so they would be ready.....There were about 60 kids or so...Absolutely adorable....I can not wait to show you the pics........

After the gifts, each grade level presented us with a worship song and showed us their knowledge of scripture by quoting MANY verses.....I can hardly type without the emotions welling back up inside of me.....

Then they had a special snack for us.....before we at they prayed.....A seven year old girl surrounded by poverty who seemingly had nothing said these words......"Thank you God for all of Your blessings You have given to me"........It was the most humble and sincere prayer I think I will ever hear.....The tears flowed even more...... I think this little girl had more than I will ever dream of!!!!!

The point of going there was to just encourage the people and to see what the church was doing....After we left there we went to our first Operation Christmas Child Distribution.......

IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can not put enough exclamation points..........I got some awesome pics and some videos of the 300 plus kids there.....I cried and then I was ecstatic......Quite an emotional roller coaster.......The looks on their faces were PRICELESS......

I am so honored and humbled that the Lord has given me this opportunity........Because of what I have seen today we better have at least 5000 boxes next year at church......I really think we could do even more........

I could type forever about all the GOD stuff I saw today.......I gotta run for now.....Dinner is in 20 minutes!!!!!!