Christmas block party

God is so good! He put the idea in our hearts to have a Christmas block party for the children of our neighborhood. We were believing for 60, but scared that we would only have about 20, and God gave us 96 children!!! Including the adults there were about 110 of us in all. This far surpassed what we thought! The next 6 blog entries will be about the party. I tried to put the pictures in the sequence by which they happened. Enjoy! In Thailand, the Thais have block parties when people get married, die, or go into the temple to be a monk. They rent tents, tables, and chairs and provide food and alcohol. There is loud music playing and people getting drunk and eating all day and all night for anywhere from 3 to 7 days! So the Lord put it in Clinton's heart to do an outreach using the same kind of idea. We worked our bottoms off, but had a blast!!! We were in the preparation process for about 4 days and on the actual day of they party we started at 7am and didn't lay our heads on our pillows until 11:30! We had 6 different "stations" in which we had groups of 15 rotate through. We had finger painting, which the Thais had never done, but loved, face painting, needle work, foot soccer sitting in chairs, blind folded two people and saw who could clip the most clothes pins on the other person, and catch the flag. The kids had a wonderful time. HOWEVER, THE REASON OF THE OUTREACH WAS TO TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS AND THE REAL MEANING OF CHRISTMAS. We had two different Thai people share, and we showed the children's version of the Jesus film. I think our Wednesday Bible club will grow after this outreach. Please continue to pray with us for the people of Ban Pru! Much love, The Garsees