Yes! Christmas! Because in 24 days I head home to celebrateeeeeeeeeeee it with my family!
Every week a group of college students on scholarships from the church (they all live in or near Banica) stay here for three days (Sunday-Tuesday) and help out... A LOT! Every Monday afternoon they have formation with me. I try to keep the activities fun and entertaining so this Monday we talked about our mission -> service. So we decided that for Christmas we should (1) make a sacrifice by offering something up and (2) do something special for others. I had the college students read four different Bible verses about Christmas to start off and we got the ball rolling from there. Long story short, we are doing a clothing drive. Each student will bring in a piece of clothing or shoes that no long fits them but will still work for someone else. They are going to talk to their families and neighbors to collect more articles of clothing as well. Then, on December 13th, we are heading up to the campo of Hato Viejo to distribute the clothes along with Christmas cards based of the Bible passages we read at the beginning of our meeting.
This campo is poor, poor, poor, poor, POOR. I work there every Tuesday in their school and run sports programs afterwards for the kids in town and the poverty is something I can never get used to. Kids come to the sports hour in their underwear, in just shorts, in just a shirt, in clothing that has been worn down to threads, and not a single child has a pair of shoes. It breaks my heart! My hope it that this clothing drive will help that problem a little bit. I was able to take a ton of pictures at today's camp and cannot wait to make something out of them. You all know how much I LOVE photography so I plan on printing out all of the photos and sending them down here to be distributed. These kids do not have underwear...I highly doubt they have a photo of themselves.
If anyone would like a CD of photos or anything feel free to e-mail me at laura.schaefer1@gmail.com and I will be sure to send one out to you this Christmas.
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