We were blessed to be able to travel south to Lithuania (about a 4 hour drive) and Rose, Kathleen and I were able to visit an orphanage. While there we made advent wreaths, a Christmas tree with ornaments, had a bible study, saw the children's Christmas play, and had a birthday party for Jesus. We also just spent some time with the children and staff. It was sad to leave. We made friends so quickly. These children are so loving, and easy to love- please keep this place and these wonderful people in your prayers!
One of our first activities we planned was to make advent wreaths and talk about how right now we are waiting for Jesus, and each week we add a flame to our wreath to mark when Jesus is born and we celebrate Christmas!
This was the Christmas tree the children made. We brought tissue paper, and some other art supplies, and they constructed a tree and decorations. Some of them were so full of glitter glue, that they were dripping! I will say that between the laughter, joy and love that was put into this project- there could be nothing more beautiful than paper ornaments with oozing glitter glue on them. Believe it or not, there were quite a few more decorations added by the time we were finished.
In the evening, Pastor came and did chapel with the group. It was neat to be a part of the spiritual instruction/growth that takes place here. I didn't understand much of anything, because it was in Lithuanian, but I did understand "Jesus Christ" and "Amen". It is great that the children are tended to physically, emotionally, and spiritually at this orphanage.
We had the great joy of being able to watch a rehearsal of their Christmas play.
Our birthday party for Jesus was the real deal. We had a cake, balloons, sang "happy birthday" and everything. The children all generally knew the birthday song, which was cute. Some of the younger ones would just sing "ah ah ahhhh" along with the tune if they didn't remember the words.
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