Morley Update 2012 #10

Everyone -

It was a busy couple of days. Tuesday we had our usual family meal day. After we cleaned up we finished our preparations for a kid's day on Wednesday. These are fun days for kids we do every so often. The basis for this day was Persian New Year which is a big holiday about new beginnings. We used that theme to share bible truths with the kids. We invited 55 kids, ages 6-12 to come for 3 hours. In order to get ready for those three hours many hours of preparation happened. There were crafts to get ready, stories to translate, puppets to gather and practice with, games to plan and prepare, veggies to cut up, tables to set and on and on. We try to plan for everything because we know that when the kids arrive the craziness begins.

We were blessed to have a team of college students to help so Kent and I arrived at the ARC at 9am to do their orientation. The rest of the team arrived by 10am and we spent the next couple of hours setting up and going over the program. At 12 we opened the doors. As the kids arrived they were assigned to a group based on gender and age. They played games in their group until everyone had arrived. After a few announcements lunch was served. They had veggies and yogurt, pizza and an orange. When that was finished we gathered the whole group for some singing and then the puppet show. As many of you know I love puppets and find them a great way to communicate a message in a fun way. Since our puppet show was about a caterpillar and a butterfly I dressed in a butterfly hunter costume. I would sneak around looking for butterflies and the kids took great joy in pointing out that several had perched on my hat. After the puppet show the kids divided into their groups to spend 15 minutes at each "station". We had a craft room where they made a name tag that said Happy New Year in Farsi. At the game station they tried to eat a cookie on a string and knocked over cereal boxes by throwing a ball. The cookie decorating station was a sticky fun mess with lots of frosting and sprinkles. In the story room they heard a story in Farsi tying some of the traditions of Persian New Year into new life in Jesus. By the time three o'clock rolled around the kids were wired (maybe it was the frosting and sprinkles) and the staff were exhausted. As their parents came to pick them up, each child received a small gift bag with a party blower and some candy. Since a picture is worth a thousand words I will close now and let the pictures speak for themselves.

Thank you for upholding us in prayer - I am still struggling with the dizziness from my meniere's and had several times during the day yesterday when the room started to spin and I had to sit down. Thank you also for your financial support - we are here because you give. We love you all.

Serving Him Together,
Kent and Myrna Morley
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