Saturday morning January 10 at 8:10 we got a call from the Khao Phanom City office telling us that we were late for the beginning of the annual Children’s Day Program. Our intention was to be at the city office at 9AM (not realizing until the phone call that the program began earlier at 8). But we still had to wait for 2 other missionary friends who were going with us to help. They too were unaware of the time change. When they arrived at the designated meeting point, we were still 35 minutes from the Children’s Day destination. Upon arrival, we immediately began making balloon animals. Our English friends, Wayne and Wendy Robinson, were pumping up balloons as fast as they could, but not fast enough for the kids. Then 2 non-Christian Thai friends, along with 3 other Thai men we didn’t know, had pity and came over to help pump balloons. Thanks to them we were finally able to keep up with the number of children wanting balloon animals. We stood for 3 ½ hours making around 1,000 balloon animals and passing out picture booklets on the life of Jesus. At the end, everyone was very tired. Fingers were red and sore from tying knots in the balloons and legs wobbly from standing. However, everyone had the gratification of knowing that the Word of God got into the hands of many children and their parents. (We forgot our camera. The file picture above is from last year’s event)
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