Celebrating Kinds Day with the kids at the Ark was a great experience. Kings Day is what we know as Epiphany, celebrating the 3 King's that visited Jesus after He was born.
In the Dominican Republic, Kings Day is the day people open their presents. The students at Anija that have sponsors but do not live at the Ark received gifts before breaking for Christmas but the kids at the Ark received their presents today on Kings Day. There were a total of 100 people KAI provided gifts for and each person received 4 gifts, a couple small and a couple bigger. There gifts came from donations that teams have brought, through donations of sponsors, and others were brought through KAI. I never thought of how much work putting gifts together would be but if you think of it, we needed to have about 400 gifts total! After one of our missionaries bought the rest of the gifts not donated, we spent a few days wrapping them and then transporting them to the Ark.
The morning of Kings Day, all of the house dad and guy missionaries cook a big pancake breakfast for everyone and the missionary kids and the rest of us help set-up, serve the food, pass out gifts, and clean up. It was such a blessing to be apart of this day and to see how each child living at the Ark has become apart of a healthy family and was able to celebrate the day by receiving gifts. Below are some pictures from the day.
You can see all the gifts piled behind Leslie.
In the Dominican Republic, Kings Day is the day people open their presents. The students at Anija that have sponsors but do not live at the Ark received gifts before breaking for Christmas but the kids at the Ark received their presents today on Kings Day. There were a total of 100 people KAI provided gifts for and each person received 4 gifts, a couple small and a couple bigger. There gifts came from donations that teams have brought, through donations of sponsors, and others were brought through KAI. I never thought of how much work putting gifts together would be but if you think of it, we needed to have about 400 gifts total! After one of our missionaries bought the rest of the gifts not donated, we spent a few days wrapping them and then transporting them to the Ark.
The morning of Kings Day, all of the house dad and guy missionaries cook a big pancake breakfast for everyone and the missionary kids and the rest of us help set-up, serve the food, pass out gifts, and clean up. It was such a blessing to be apart of this day and to see how each child living at the Ark has become apart of a healthy family and was able to celebrate the day by receiving gifts. Below are some pictures from the day.
You can see all the gifts piled behind Leslie.
Loida and I were there to help.
WOW! What a blessing is right! For you and the kids!!! I can only imagine!!!
ReplyDeleteGetting that many presents ready for that many kids is amazing! Congrats to everyone who helped make the Kings Day celebration so special for the Ark children. The 'healthy families' that these children now belong to are an incredible blessing from God, worked out by you and the KAI missionaries, God's servants!
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