Sunday School 9:00
44 boys and girls today
It started raining, Pouring! Soon after everybody got got there. We tried to sing above the roar of the rain on the metal building, the children belted it out🗣️🧒🏾🧒🏾👧🏾🧒🏾👧🏾🗣️ we sang a few extra songs. Then decided to have them color the picture and see if the rain would let off enough to read the story later. Well, it never did. The children hadn’t brought umbrellas, they asked if we had plastic bags so their pictures wouldn’t get wet. Kobid told them they could wait til the rain let up.. but then fights started breaking out so we decided to play “Mother May I” with them, for some order. (….for lack of other instant inspiration… I’m thinking Bible story charades would be better fitting for the occasion, maybe if we ever have another similar scenario…) We taught about 8 of them at a time while the others waited, lined up along the wall. The last round Lonnie did with the class 7 boy from the classroom he frequents. I had them doing push-ups, backward scissor steps, etc. Some Moms had showed up with umbrellas by this time and the rain had slowed so we told them it was Shesh(finished). And they made their departure. This group of children is a very enjoyable crowd. And a highlight of our week😌
Lunch- Poor man’s steak and gravy over rice, vegetable stir fry, pineapple, birthday cake and icecream.
4:00 service.. a little boy from Sunday School joined us as we left the gate. Just as we were finished setting up for church, the Sunday School boy’s grandmother showed up and a also a couple and another man that were looking for a job. They were not interested in staying for church and soon left since we weren’t offering employment. Kobid, Liton, and the beggar showed up. Just as we were all finding a place to sit, the beggar reached out his hand to Lonnie as if he wanted to shake hands. So Lonnie went over there to shake hands and the beggar fell to his feet hanging onto Lonnie’s legs sobbing and pleading for help with treatment for his pain (back pain). This man has been coming around for years! Missionaries in the past have helped him with treatment costs and offered to help with pain meds but he declines the pain meds, says they’re bad for his health… so he asks most every Friday for monetary help… anyways today he just kept sobbing and hanging onto Lonnie till the native brethren got quite stern with him! Telling him this was not appropriate! He can cry to God! And this place is a place of worship! There are 30,000 people like you that need monetary help with medical treatments! They eventually got him to leave. We ended up putting our chairs in a circle since we were so few and proceeded with our service. The beggar came back and joined our circle mostly composed again. He would cry silently at intervals thru the service. The Sunday school boy left after the 1st 2 songs and then the girl that lives nearby with the 1 month old baby, that used to attend Sun. school as a child, showed up. Her name is Bee-ay? She was saying after church, that she came to her parent’s village to have her baby, but her husband works in Dhaka. And she will be going back to Dhaka in 3 months. She is a very pretty sweet lady…
When we got back to our gate, the pastor from a neighboring church was waiting for us. He uses our gospel literature and that’s what he was here for. The beggar man went on his way and then Kobid, Liton, and this pastor came in for spiced tea and popcorn.
Talked to Mom awhile, Cam showed up at Mom’s while we were visiting, so got to hear from him too😊
Lonnie had gone to have tea in the village.
And so ended our 4th of July… no backyard Bbq, fireworks, or red white and blue… But it was good 😌
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