Christmas in August for Neighborhood Children

On August 31, we had an early Christmas party for the neighborhood children since we will not be here at Christmas. These are the children who live close by us and like to come and play in our yard from time to time. We had 8 children attend and Larisa took a gift bag for her baby sister. We shared a Bible Story, they had a question sheet for the lesson, a word find and a coloring page. We fed them pizza and brownies. Each child received either a Bible Story book or a New Testament Bible.

In this picture the boys are answering the questions about the Bible lesson. Also Dani and the girls are answering the questions.

Beni is translating for the Bible story.

The girls are decorating the door hangers we did as a craft.

Our Bible lesson was about Jesus being tempted in the wilderness by Satan after fasting for 40 days and nights. Here the angel is ministering to Jesus. We have enjoyed the flannel graph that was donated to us this year. The children really like the visual pictures. It helps them to understand the lesson better.

Barbara with Georgiana, Cristina and Larisa.

Beni is with (left to right) Sergiu, Marius, Abel, Dani & Roly.

The boys are looking at the N.T. or Bible story book they received.

In the next 2 pictures they are checking out to see what is in the gift bag. They seemed to be pleased with all the goodies.

Below the children are having a relay race to see which team can drop the coin, which is being carried between their knees, in the cup first.

We enjoyed the time spent with the children. Thank you to everyone who helped with providing the gifts or either monetary donations to provide the gifts for the children. You are a blessing!