Easter Weekend with “Precious Children”

Our new friends, the precious children & their dedicated guardians of “Precious Children’s Home” in Kerala, India.

I along with 16 other 7^th and 8^th graders (including six teachers) from International Community School have the privilege of spending our Easter break serving and befriending the kids at this incredible children’s home. The Orphanage is a project of Prison Fellowship India. These kids either have at least one parent in jail, or they are orphans. Please check out their website for more information (http://www.preciouschildren.org/). Maybe God will call you to visit them or help them one day too! In fact, if you are one of those who helped send me here with your financial gift, you are already helping these kids — and me of course too! So THANKS AGAIN for your generous gifts.

Here’s a quick update on our first couple of days here. First of all, we left Singapore late on Thursday night, aboard Tiger Airways flight TR #608 for a 5 hour flight to Kochi in southern India! After that, we had a long bus trip (over two hours) to Kottayam, the location of the orphanage. But on the way we were able to see alot of Indian festival activities along the road, so that was pretty cool. We were exhausted by the time we arrived, but excited to be there. We are actually staying at the orphanage with the kids so we can really get to know them this way.

This morning, some of our team helped serve breakfast for the children, and Nathan Chow and I gave a short devotional together during the morning assembly time. I was nervous but God really helped us. We will continue giving short devotionals in the children’s evening devotion time as well. I will also be helping with arts & crafts, and sports activities while we are here.

Tomorrow is EASTER — in INDIA — WOW! One of our teachers, Mr. Goode will be speaking tomorrow morning shortly before communion, and then our new MS Principal, Mr. Bridgeman, will be sharing the Easter message. If you receive this before Easter Sunday, please pray for them.

Here are some other prayer requests:

1. That the daily activities would fall into place, and that what God has planned will be done, even if all our plans are changed.

2. Sarah is not feeling well. She thinks it may be food that she is not used to. She is resting today.

3. Rebecca is having allergy problems. Please pray that both girls recover quickly, and that everyone stays healthy.

Thanks again for your prayers and support. Happy Easter to you!

HE IS RISEN!

Taylor