Ah, today was a snow day, extending the weekend to a three-day weekend. I wish I could've worked today, but the snow day allowed me to work on making some puppets. I'm working on making puppets to take to Brazil for kids ministry, and then, when I return to Africa, I will take them as well. Today I started 9 puppets, and have finished 4 or 5 of them.
Yesterday and Saturday I spent quite a bit of time stuck at home with no car, so I sewed. I'm working on making these baby kimonos and blanket sets and dresses for little girls that will be sent to the Dem. Rep. of Congo (DRC). The dresses are for orphans sponsored through Global Fingerprints, a part of Touch Global (the Evangelical Free Church missions arm). They have about 700 orphans that are sponsored there, which is many many more than last June when they had only 40 orphans sponsored! About 15% of kids in that region in the Congo are orphaned from Aids and war.
The baby layettes also go to the DRC with EFC mission, to Tandala Hospital in the northwest region of the Congo. My prayers go with the things I sew, that the kids may know Jesus in the midst of war and Aids ravaging the country.
My heart also goes out to the Congo. I desperately want to go there, almost as much as I want to go to Brazil and Moz. There is so much need there, I have seen some poverty in Africa, but the Congo is still in the midst of violent uprisings in various places and it is still not safe to live there. My heart breaks for Africa, cry the beloved continent.
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