Our first African Easter

He is Risen.... Praise the Lord, Christ is Risen!!!

Happy Easter everyone! We had a very nice service at church this morning to celebrate Christ's gift to us. His death and resurrection are the reason we are here. He tore the veil and allowed us to be drawn closer to God and therefore be privileged to hear God speak to us. He died for us all, the abandoned kids here at Beautiful Gate, the mothers and fathers who chose to give them up, and the caring staff who love and tend to their needs each day. He died for us even if we have not chosen to love Him back and accept HIS GIFT. Such selfless love is unimaginable, yet necessary and we thank you Jesus.

Today, our family and Laury hid eggs, chocolate marshmallow eggs, and dum dum suckers for all the kids. It rained all weekend so we had to borrow the preschool and split the older kids and younger kids up into two groups. The little kids went first and were just so cute. Most of them found a dum dum sucker, took off the paper and sat on the floor eating it. They did not want to look for anything else because they were so happy to have the sucker. My kids and Laury pretty much had to finish finding things and then we made a bag for each kid to take home. The older kids were ready and they knew what to do. They were done in no time and were super excited for their bags once we split it all up evenly :) It was very special to see their smiles and hear them talking excitingly.

Bryan's family has always made Easter a special day of fun family time for my kids so it was great to pass on that fun to about 35 kids. The other 15 are babies and not able to participate this year. Hopefully they will have their own families to celebrate with next year! All in all my kids got to decorate 56 eggs this year because we also wanted to make an Easter bag for each of the staff who were working today. It was a great way to spend our first African Easter. One funny thing was that I associate Easter with spring and it is fall here so I have to remember that there won't be any tulips or daffodils blooming this time of year :)