Christmas at the Orphanage...

We had such a wonderful afternoon with the children at the orphanage I visit to see Michael on the Eastern side of town. We went there last year Christmas too for an afternoon of fun and games.

We started the afternoon with drumming and carols.

Then spent a while talking about the Christmas story and how we can be friends with Jesus now.

This year I had the idea of doing some crafts with them. So along with Sandra we set about making a huge paper Christmas Tree, which looked very bare to start with...

but soon got filled up....

This is Michael - proud of his and his friends work.

Not one of these children had ever had a Christmas Tree in their home before. It was really special.

Just watching them perfect there decorations with glitter, feathers and screwed up tissue paper, you could see how much they were enjoying themselves.

This is Binta..being the youngest at the Orphanage, she got to glue the BIG Yellow star on top.

And all the Children then went on to make their own trees. By now they were experts!!

This is Abu helping Michael - I'm not sure who was enjoying themselves most??

But one thing is for sure, we all had a great time of joy and sharing love with one another. Exhausted we settled down for a short film and refreshments to round off the afternoon.

Loved it, Love the kids,

and Love being able to share Christmas this way.

Merry Christmas to you all...