Sunday Blessings - Special Children 's Service

All  through  last  week  175  children from  about  7   or  8  churches participated  in the  Vacation  Bible School held in the  Seminary  Chapel. Sonia 's  son Abner woke up  early  each  morning to get ready for  his Bible  class.
The children  were divided  according  to  their  ages  followed lessons  from  a  work book.  They  memorized   Bible  verses. And  had  fun  activities,games and  a  Friday  evening  picnic.
There  was  a  special  Sunday  morning  children 's service at  the  Chapel which  Sonia  an d I  also  attended.
Here  are  some  photos  I  took at the  service.

Abner  in  the  middle

Chandi (2nd from  the  left) won the  first  prize 

in her  Beginers class -she  is

from our  church.

Her  parent 's  were  recently  baptized.

Many  of  these  children came  from

non Christian  homes.

Pray  that the  seed sown in

each child 's  heart may

take  root firmly

and grow.

Last  week was  a stormy one.

We  had  rain  and  dust  storms  on Wednesday.

Saturday and  Sunday evenings.

We  were  without electricity for  about  30  hours

over  the  weekend.

A lot  of  our  mangoes  fell from  the  tree  and  we  gave  away plenty. This  weather is rather  unusual

for  May, wonder  what  it  will  do to the

onset of  the  monsoons.

Several trees  fell down  and  power  cables  snapped  because  of  high  velocity  winds.

The dust  made  the house  look like

the  set  from the  movie -

The Mummy-

the  dust  storm scene -Ha!

And of  course  without electricity - no  Internet.

And  something more.

This evening Sonia  and Abner  witnessed

a child kidnapping in  a commercial

area close  to  our house.

A  young  woman  was going  on a  rickshaw with

some luggage  and a small  girl

about  2 or 3  years  old.

Sudden a man appeared and asked

the rickshaw driver to  stop saying  he  was

her  husband. He then snatched the little

girls from the  mother 's arms  and  dashed  down the  street. The  women let out  blood curdling screams.

A crowd gathered  around  her and some  boys  gave

the  kidnapper  a  chase, a policeman was 

also  summoned.

 Then the distraught  woman ran back to

into a lane where she

supposedly lived.

Sonia and Abner, too shocked and  stunned

moved away from the  excited  crowd,

both  quite  upset   by what

they  had  witnessed.

Wonder  what their  story  was.

A separated  or divorced  couple -

with the  father  wanting to

take possession of his  daughter?

Its one  thing to  just  read  about

such  cases in the  newspaper,

but  quite  an experience  to 

see  it played  out in front

of your  eyes.

I just  pray the  little  girl  is  safe