Wow! I can’t believe it is less than a week til Christmas. While I think most of you will be shopping, wrapping presents, organising families and generally trying to hide from the cold, here we are still ambling about in sandals! I haven’t bought a single present yet, and we still have no idea what we are actually doing for Christmas!
But you think you guys are busy. Stop and take a moment to think what it must be like for poor Father Christmas at this time of year. And on top of organising his elves, recruiting reindeer, wrapping presents and planning his night time trip round the world, he still found time to pay a visit to a group of very special children in Cosmo City!
Holiday club yesterday was a Christmas party which was a total surprise to all the children. We brought them all to the hub, which was all decorated and set out with food ready. While they were eating, who should stroll in my the great Mr. Clause himself. You also have to understand at this point that, being used to the sort of weather that you are currently experiencing in England, poor Father Christmas was struggling in our 30 degree heat! But still there he was, complete with 4 huge bags of presents for the children. They were so delighted, it was amazing!

Other than that, not much has been going on really. Lots more children have discoveredour house recently, and in doing that, have found we offer juice, crisps, biscuits and sometimes even chocolate as well! And of course great entertainment and the best company possible!!

How’s all your Christmas prep going? Hope it is all going well and you are looking forward to Father Christmas’s visit on 24th!

Hi Guys! I’m so sorry I haven’t posted for over a week, it’s been crazy round here!
This week we have been running a holiday club from 12-3 PM each day. We have had between 15 and 40 children aged between 4 and about 12. We have been diong lots of activities, mostly involving glitter and hand painting, as well as playing lots of games and doing sport and bible stories with them. It’s so much fun but tiring!
I also have to tell you about our awesome evening last Friday. One of the guys who volunteers at the soup kitchen invited us round to his house for dinner. His wife is lovely and we got to meet his little girl who is just the cutest child! His wife is originally from Holand and they celebrate St Nicholas day on December 6, which is when we went round. The little girl got so excited when St Nicholas left her a note and presents. But wt he was even more generous, because we all got a chocolate letter. We were so touched that St. Nick remembered us as well. But then the little girl hunted out presents that he had left for us! They are such an amazing and generous family! Thank you so much for such a wonderful evening and for making us feel so welcome and part of your celebrations!

I have a lot to tell you about in this entry. The retreat was so fantastic and so relaxing. We stayed in log cabins in he mountains in the middle of nowhere. On Friday morning we climbed a waterfall which was fun! We all got really badly sunburnt though!

Monday morning should have been the soup kitchen but we didn’t go. Instead we were asked to plan a short drama for the youngest kids at one of the primary schools about HIV, as it was world AIDS day on Monday. So we prepared a cute little puppet show and arrived at the school to find that plans had slightly changed!
We were performing to the older children instead of the youngest ones, and it was a full school assembly! There were around 1000 children there! EEK!! Very scary! We had to sit on the stage as guests of honour during the assembly as well!

Yesterday afternoon we took too of our friends out for ice cream. They are two of the local kids who come to visit us often. It was so much fun. They are such amazing and inspirational children!

This morning I turned he garage where we do skills for life into a craft and creative area of chaos! It was great though. I go all the students a prayer diary and we covered them in wrapping paper and made a big collage about all the things we are thankful for. They were so creative And no one can ever say you are too old for glitter! It just isn’t true!