Captured by Carla: 2012

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Who am I?

This past summer I have played many roles so I decided to make a list of the roles I've played.

I'm a nanny
A taxi driver
A fill in "mom" for a week or weekend
A hair dresser
A lifeguard
Taking kids to and from school
A baker
A chief
A driver of a car with 5 car seats (and I don't have kids)
A seamstress
A quilt maker
A new fear of bats! They have gotten in our house several times
A baby holder :)
A grocery shopper for a new mom
A homework helper
A children's church teacher

And now for my newest role/job.....

A preschool teacher to 3 year olds! I have been at the job a couple weeks now and getting settled in and I love it! I have 12 fun kids to teach and work with some great women! I am still nannying for both families! I like to keep busy!

Monday, June 11, 2012

Going Back

Well I am excited to announce that I am going back to Africa with Visiting Orphans in December!! I will be going back to Uganda and then going to Kenya as well! I look forward to seeing what God has done in the lives of the ones I meet last year in Uganda and meet new people in Kenya. God has truly given me a heart to love on orphans and his children! Please pray for my team and the trip this coming December and January.

Ethiopia

I am going to try to get Ethiopia all in one blog post so hear we go.... ;)

In Ethiopia we worked with a few ministries; Project 61, an orphanage, an Transition Home, and visited the Fistula Hospital.

Project 61 is a ministry that works with the families and children in a community called Korah. Korah is located by and in the city of Adsis Ababa's dump. The community started out as a lepercy community. The ministry works with the children and families there as a resorse of food formula and providing sponsoring for schooling for the children. While we split up in to groups with the children with music, crafts, and stories. Then we got to help serve the children in the feeding program lunch. We also broke up into groups into the community and went on home visits. We got to go into the families homes hear their stories and pray with them.

The orphanage we got to go to just spend time with the children there. I pretty much stayed in the baby room and held sweet babies and played with toddlers. I can not post any pictures because the children are being adopted or up for adoption. Or last time there as we were leaving we got to witness and couple coming to pick up their baby that they were adopting. It was so wonderful to get to witness that happen.

Another place we went was a transition home where children go who are in the process of being adopted and waiting for their parents to get to come bring them home. We played with the children and painted a mural in their playground.

The Fistula hospital we brought gifts for the women who were there and toured the hospital as well. If you want to learn more about the Fistula hospital there is a movie documentary of it called A Walk To Beautiful.

Some beautiful faces of the people and children of Korah

Ethiopian Dining

A trip in the mountains to a Greek Orthodox Church

Return Ministries

Hello everyone, I am a horrible at keeping up with a blog. My life gets pretty crazy and busy a lot but I love every minute of it and the children I get to take care of everyday and adding a wonderful family with two wonderful little girls that I enjoy spending time with. I have also started up a small business called Frilly N Pink I making adorable little outfits for little girls and dresses and trying to add more to the mix!

I'm sure your wondering what my title is "Return Ministries". Well this is a continue of my trip to Africa that has almost been a year ago now. Return Ministries is a ministry that I visited in Kampala, Uganda. It is a place that reaches out to the community and the children.

We spent 2 days with the children there. The first day was a bit overwhelming and a whole lot of fun! At times I felt claustrophobic as I was surrounded by children who wanted their faces painted on day one. We spend the day doing activities of crafts and face paintings with the children then after lunch was pretty much a big dance party! It was full of them teaching us some of their dance moves and us teaching some to them. The women who worked there to serve the children were just filled with joy and danced while serving the children. I loved seeing their energy and their overflow of the Father's love coming out of them. One young woman there Dorthy was filled with so much joy and I enjoyed spending time with her dancing with the children and singing with the children. Also got a little attached to a little 2 1/2 year old girl Sophia. Her mom was so sweet and was there helping with the children. When it came time to go and give Sophia back to her mom she cried and did not want to me to leave and tried to run after me I heard her mom saying "Auntie has to go" Broke my heart!

Day 2 we did a activity with them where we gave them a piece of paper and crayons or markers and had them write their name on the paper and decorate it however they wanted. We shared with them on how God knows their names and they are loved and not forgotten. I will share some pictures with you below...