The time has arrived! We are ready for two days of celebration for the ABC Program in the highlands! A lot of time, work and effort has gone into these two days. Food and activities have been planned for 1,100 guests!
This year, the activity is in one of the schools in Chichicastenango. This is the group on Tuesday, before the activities started.
Marcos and Ruben welcomed everyone and then we got down to business. Here, they are introducing Violeta. Violeta works in Guatemala City, primarily with the ABC Program.
Lisa and Kemmel enjoy the activities from the sidelines. No one understands the amount of work and planning that goes into preparing these activities. Kemmel works many, many hours and his phone rings constantly!
Manuel, Violeta and Luis, preparing to announce the winners of third place.
Violeta, with the third place winners.
These students, received enough points during the year to be awarded second place.
These are the first place winners. They received prizes of beds or dressers to keep their clothes in.
These are the ABC coordinators of these communities. The coordinators are responsible for seeing that the child remains active in church, attends school, writes letters to their sponsor and that they receive their medical and dental check-ups as required. Everyone that is involved in the program has responsibilities.
Once we enjoyed a time of singing, devotion and prizes, and then it was time to divide into groups for classes. There were six stations and each station had a different focus of study. we had several teachers helping and they were a BIG help!
This is group A...........
This was another group...............
and their focus was Philippians 4:8. This was a very popular group and they made sun visors.
This is one of the teachers, inviting the students to their area.
It was very encouraging to see the students listening and participating. The focus or story of this group was to teach that God gives people different characteristics or qualities. After a period of time, people began to think of these as being positive or negative so someone asked God about it. He explains that all of the characteristics that He gives people are positive because they come from him. Everyone has individual characteristics and personality.........we are all special in God's eyes.
Everyone decorates a mask and then printed their name inside using the Bible verse............"For God so loved (the name of the child) that He gave His only Son................."
I want to introduce you to Cesar. He lives in Chuchipaca and will begin working with us in January. He will primarily be working with the ABC Program in the area of education. We are growing quickly and it will be great to have him. Welcome Cesar!
Maury and her group worked together to teach another important lesson. They use a tube of tooth paste to demonstrate how easy it is to get the paste out, but impossible to return the paste into the tube. This demonstrates our tongue. When we speak to someone, it is impossible to take our words back. We need to think, before we speak. Such a valuable lesson for children and adults.
Children enjoying their time in class.
Group B, used Romans 10:13 for their class.
Then they were able to color feet.......How beautiful are the foot of them that preach the gospel of peace...............
They are very beautiful!
About 12:30, everyone got in line for lunch. As the line progressed, we took photos of each of the ABC Children.
After lunch, everyone had a little time to play and then it was time to clean the grounds. Everyone loaded up their prizes as we cleaned and prepared for tomorrow.
Tomorrow, we will have the other communities for another full day of adventure!!
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