A big thanks to all the volunteers! These seven students from the International school came to help, after the school had also donated some of the toys. Also thank you to our many photographers, and over 15 people from the Community Church of Paudalho--we could not have done it without you!
There were not 150 children--there were close to 200! Around 170 children from Paudalho,
and 20 children from Cajueiro Claro (that was all that could fit in the Kombe).
Rachel got all excited.
Flavio and Precilla sang.
Flavio shared a message of love about Jesus.
And we had a time of prayer.
Afterwards--the presents began! The first table was coins and seaweed from Hong Kong (it is always good to try something new), donated from friends in Hong Kong--thank you!
And then they moved on to the Disney table, with pins, cars tattoos, and beauty and the beast door hangers with book marks, donated by Jane at Disneyland--thank you!
Moving on, they recieved a toy/giftbag, some from the United States (thank you Karianne and friends), some from the International school (thank you!), and some from Cajueiro Claro church ladies (thank you!).
A very special VBS group in Texas (thank you Cherrylynn!) put together school journals for the children, with messages like "Jesus love you!" and "You are special" in Portugese for them. They each also recieved pencils and erasers and some other school supplies.
Erasmas snuck off to a corner to check out his presents in peace.
It was a festa completa, as Brazilians call it, with a trampoline,
A ball pit,
a bounce house,
balloons,
clowns,
face painting,
games and hula-hoops,
lots of fun,
cotton candy,
And lots of love.
THANK YOU so much everyone!
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