Monday, July 27

This is the main office building at PHF.

This week the focus has been on VBS for the children at the orphanage. Yesterday we had about 40 kids over to our "inn". These kids sure love to sing! It is really cool to hear all the little voices belting out "Jesus loves me" and even cooler when they sing it in Chinese. They really like that song. It is amazing that they know many songs in English, since they really don't speak it very well. We have a Chinese lady from Seattle on our team named Judy. She does a great job telling the Bible story. It is great to watch the faces of the nannies as the story is being told as many of them have never heard that before. Next the kids go to crafts and snacks. Then they play games. They love the water games. I made the mistake of not hiding all of the squirt guns on the first day. The kids swarmed the bucket that was holding those as well as the water balloon bucket. The weather is probably 100 degrees and very humid. Just try getting them to put that stuff back. Even if I knew Chinese, there was no stopping them. So the first day we had a big huge water fight. Tons of fun! Second day, we hid things until we were ready to bring them out!

Greg's "Go-to move"

I got the experience of going to Wal-Mart yesterday...yes there is one of those here in Langfang. Wow! It is several stories high and it is quite something. It was very hard to recognize products. At one point, I thought I was picking out some great snack for my girls, but it was a box of noodles! There were some interesting things in the produce section. Thankfully, Jewel Floch was with us and she has mastered the place so I was able to find what I needed!

I am hoping to be in the group this morning that gets to go to Harmony House - another orphanage nearby that was started by a family from Vancouver, Washington.