Sunday - One in the Spirit

We headed out to the church on the Salgaa plot today to help with Sunday School. We joined the congregation in the church for a time of prayer and worship. The children were all singing when we came in and that was so awesome to hear! The worship team then lead us in singing. Some songs were in English and others in Swahili. But even though we could not understand all of the words, we enjoyed praising God together. One of the songs we sang had the phrase "We are one in the Spirit. We are one in the Lord". And we truly felt that way! The Kenyans again made us feel very welcome. After that we went with the children out to their Sunday School Class. The ages of the children were from infant to around 13 years old. The team shared their skit about forgiveness and then Coach Ummel summed up the skit telling the kids about God's forgiveness and because He forgave us we need to forgive each other. Ally Jenkins and Brittany Lengacher each shared their testimonies and did a great job! Then we passed out the same coloring pages we used at the slum orphanage. Again the kids spent a lot of time making their pictures look perfect. We had planned to play Duck, Duck, Goose with the kids, but the skit involved using soccer balls so several children requested we play "football" instead. We soon realized we needed to have an older kids and a younger kids game. Still some of the younger ones of the older kids got knocked down trying to kick the ball. It was such a joy to see the kids running around, smiling and laughing. Many of them rarely if ever touched the ball, yet they still enjoyed the game. Some of the older girls just wanted to talk, so they stood in the middle of the field and asked questions while the game went on around them. It was a very enjoyable morning for both the Kenyans and the Americans.