EASTER SUNDAY

He is Risen!! Alleluia! What a wonderful, blessed day! I celebrated with Pastor M's church, and shared a message. A women was obviously in severe pain. They let her lie on the floor with her head on someone's lap. Pastor M prayed for her. Later, others did as well. This lady could barely walk and it made me hurt just to watch her! Well, after prayer they had her doing deep knee bends! And she stopped crying! PRAISE GOD! After lunch, Nan went home with me to help prepare for today's Easter Celebration for the Kids from Grace Home. What fun! Twenty kids and four adults.

 Morning service at MP's church

 Vic plays the drum

 Listening to the Easter Story

 Craft time

 Egg dying

 Egg hunt

 The kids decorated eggs

 Bunny cake

 Nan and Prabha help fix plates

 Gift Time

 What a wonderful day! 
I have a training tomorrow in a village not too far away. Thanks for your prayers!

Moms and Friends Easter Party

I decided to use my homemade Resurrection Eggs to share the story along with a new book a friend sent me (thanks, Greg). In each egg, I had a verse to go with the item. I passed around the eggs until they were all gone. I called out the egg color and whoever had it opened it and read the verse in Hindi from the Bible. I shared the pictures from the book.

 My entry way. The hanging batik is from China. The tablecloth batik is from Sri Lanka.

 Making lemon bundt cake.

 Looking up the verses.

 I don't like the screen I had made so I draped a bunch of my dupattas on it!

 I explained the tradition of coloring eggs, and how they symbolize the New Life we can have in Jesus Christ. We used some food coloring, plus we used some natural dyes such as tumeric and coriander.

Here are the symbols and verses I used in the eggs:
1. Palm leaf -Matt. 21:1-11
2. Perfumed cotton ball - John 12:2-8
3. bread - Matt. 26:17-19
4. coins - Matt 27:3 
5. cross - John 19:17
6. thorny vine -John 19:2
7. purple cloth -John 19:23
8. nails -John 19: 18, 37
9. Q-tip - Matt. 27:34
10. cloves, cinnamon, cardamon -John 19:40
11. flat stone - Luke 24:1-2
12. empty - Luke 24:3-6
13. a piece of linen - John 20:6-7
14. a fish - Luke 24: 41-43
15. world map - Matt. 28:19-20
16. polyester fiberfill for clouds -Acts 1:1-11
After we finished the Story, I told them I had hidden 16 eggs. Oh my goodness! They were so excited! Inside was a slip of paper with their prize written on it. I gave nail files, notebooks, floss, and candy.
Is anybody reading this? Sure wish I could get some comments.

Big Girls Bible Club Easter Celebration

Right after the Grace Home party, the Big Girls came for their Easter party. Instead of using the Story Bag to tell His Story, I used homemade Resurrection Eggs. I let the girls each choose some eggs and open them to reveal the contents as we went along. They seem to enjoy opening the eggs, and trying to tell what the symbol reminded us of in Jesus' story.

 "What's in the egg?"

 Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.

 The empty egg reminds of the empty tomb. "He is Risen! Just as He said. Go quickly and tell His disciples."

 The contents of the eggs

 Thank you Aunty Marilyn and Aunty Sarah for sending the "He's Alive" bookmark kits.

 Displaying their finished bookmarks. Prayerfully, they will take to heart His message and someday soon choose to follow Jesus.

 "You came from heaven to earth to show the way."

 Keeping with our new life theme, I made butterflies from the Tootsie Pops the guys gave me.

I was so happy to find lilies at one of the two flower shops in town. Felt like Easter. I am so thankful I could share the true meaning of this most special holiday with the neighborhood girls and their moms.
He is risen!!! Alleluia!

Grace Home Easter Celebration

The kids came back, twenty of them, including two visiting cousins of Christy who don't speak Hindi OR English. I used very visual things, so they got the message, I think. I used an Easter Story bag, given to me by Beth S. As I told Jesus's Story, I turned the bag inside out and it was another color, starting with purple, then black, red, white, and yellow. I also had pictures in the Story Bible. Thanks to Aunty Marilyn and Aunty Sarah I had sticker sheets for the little ones to make the Resurrection scene. It helped keep them focused. There are six new ones, mostly very young. Some of the older ones were very helpful.
Praise the Lord, J. and C. came to help me! I had back to back parties. The guys helped with crafts, snacks, the egg hunt, and gift distribution.