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.
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
