4th Annual Easter Celebration

We had a very enjoyable Easter weekend here at Beautiful Gate. On Friday, I invited 5 missionary kids and we had about 10 volunteers to help us paint Easter eggs with the Beautiful Gate kids. Our volunteers from the Netherlands, Walter and Gert, brought the coolest Easter egg coloring kits I have ever seen and so we were able to have the BG kids paint eggs this year! It was such a good time :)

Since it was their first time coloring eggs, we had to give a little extra help :)

I even asked one of the play group staff to help paint eggs with the kids and she seemed to have a good time.

Faith, Elaina and Annie helped to color a lot of extra eggs for the kids under the age of 3.

The kids had a wonderful time coloring eggs and I am so thankful that we had a way of letting them help this year.

On Sunday, we had a lot of people join us for hiding candy for the kids. Before the candy finding, we all went to the kids and rear the Easter story. Terp read the story of Jesus' resurrection to the kids and staff and then they sang a few songs. We had one of our weekend staff translate the story to the kids just so that they can begin to understand why we celebrate Easter. After story time we took the kids up to the preschool lawn for the candy hunt and then they sat around eating their hard boiled eggs and a few pieces of candy. 

Terp reading all of us the Easter story.

Let the candy and toy hunt begin!!!

Waiting patiently for their egg and candy bags.

 Even the staff got some treats! They were very helpful in explaining everything to the kids and we are so blessed by our wonderful staff who go along with our crazy american ideas such as egg hunts!

Bryan holding the gate closed till all the kids arrived :)

Oh, we did actually let our kids and their friends have a little egg hunt too :)

I am so thankful that we can celebrate what Jesus has done for us with those who need to know about the love of Jesus. Those who have been forsaken by the ones who were meant to love them. Who better to understand them and love them than our Savior who was forsaken so we could all enter heaven one day. Thank you Jesus and please bless your little ones here at Beautiful Gate and please provide them with a  family to love them until you return or call them home.