Southeast Asia 2013 Day Six

Children of the M People Blessed by CHFBC Children

Months have passed since VBS but today we saw more fruit of how impacting it can be in San Antonio and around the world. Each evening in VBS children visited our M People booths. They learned fun facts about the M People, saw pictures and even a video of their culture. Each evening they also brought their pennies, nickels and dimes and dollars and were told that their offering would help children on the other side of the world...children of the M People.

Well today we were able to walk into the classrooms of 183 children at the poorest of the M People elementary schools and give each of them a beautiful pencil pouch, one pencil, a pencil sharpener and a notebook. As I sit back at the hotel, their beautiful faces are imprinted on my mind. With pitch black hair, rosy cheeks and in many cases front teeth missing, they were so grateful that you would have thought it was Christmas morning.

Little do they know that since those pennies, nickels, dimes and dollars added up to over $1100, there's money left for each of them to receive a jacket and a pair of shoes before the cold winter months hit. (These are ordered and are being shipped as we speak from the nearest big city).

We have come to understand that after so many years under atheism that it's not enough for them to just hear about the love of the most high G*d. They need to see it in action. So, on your behalf we are ministering to the least of these in the forgotten village at the poorest school. It is a wonder to behold.

Both the school principal and the area education supervisor were present for the distribution and then we gathered all 183 students. They stood in the courtyard in neat single file lines and sang our song back to us in English, phrase by phrase. According to the principal they are so remote that for many of them this was their first time to see a foreigner of any kind.

Thank you again for your faithfulness in pr^ying, in giving, in sending us here. It is true that for every person who takes the good news to a foreign land there must be a hundred who stay behind to support them. We are happy to be on your team.