Mother’s Christmas Party

Queeny has a mother’s bible study at the slum of Pantal, but, I don’t attend with her because it’s on Wednesday’s and I go the campus Weds. But I had the opportunity to go to her Christmas party with them. Chelsea, a young adult from Singapore also is visiting our base and participating in all our activities.

Last night after a lot of frenzy we went to ChowKing; a famous Chinese fast food restaurant. They wouldn’t open their upstairs seating for us because there was available seating in the regular section, even though we insisted they should let us. We relented and just took the downstairs seating instead. We only had five mothers attending so it was a small group. This was one of the mother’s first in her 30 years of age to eat here.

Right off the start I was introducing myself and familiarizing myself with them. There was one who was very talkative and didn’t mind chatting away! (she might have been a bit tipsy though). When we finally started the program of the night I shared a Christmas story about the birth of Jesus and why Jesus is important to us. We played many games! Which were all so fun to watch and participate in. We played Pictionary, a song game, word search, a game they play here in the Philippines in which you put a word on your forehead and you have to guess it with the help of a person trying to explain it. We also played a game where we put peanuts in a bowl and tried to see how many peanuts we could get using chopsticks.  We laughed so much my cheeks hurt!

This group is not afraid to make fools of themselves and laugh a lot. And that’s what made our night so enjoyable. We had so many people staring at us the whole night, I think the ChowKing regretted not letting us upstairs.

We held a feeding in Pantal and Arellano Saturday and Sunday. We gave out fried chicken this time and of course, rice to accompany it. Not only did we give them food that will just perish but we gave them the living word. We were able to pass out about 200 Bibles to people.