FELIZ NAVIDAD from all the beautiful Mexican children to you!! The following are just the beginning of many photos from the week we celebrated Christmas with all the casa hogars. To the left are about 1/3rd of the kids at Casa Hogar Douglas praying before lunch.
The women's group purchased live Christmas trees for every orphanage we serve. At each home, the women decorated ornaments with the kids and helped the kids decorate their tree. Before we left our property each morning the women baked several hundred christmas shaped sugar cookies for the kids to eat while they decorated the tree. No detail was left unnoticed. It was honestly an intense week- but one of the sweetest of my entire life.
Ever wondered what JOY looks like on a little orphan's face? Well wonder no more... it's been captured here with Josue as he ran through the tunnel of women cheering for him as he received his Christmas present. As awesome as a big expensive present is.... it's nowhere near as important or impacting as feeling special and loved-- if even for a moment...
To the right is Angel with his new Rayados jersey. This is a "jersey culture" in many ways. Mexicans love soccer and they love soccer jerseys more I think. They are kind of expensive and pretty much the most awesome Christmas present ever for a kid in a Casa Hogar. He was stoked- about 5 boys at this home got Rayados jerseys and after the christmas party they went outside and played a game.
Meet "The Women's Group"!!! Most of these women hail from Cincinnati, Ohio. Spending the week with them was possibly my favorite week in all of the 4 months I've lived here. We laughed, we cried, we shopped, we hugged, we baked, we wrapped, we sang.... it was beautiful.
To the right is what I like to call "Santa's Workshop." This group of women flew down presents for every single child at each home we serve. One of my first B2B staff assignments when I moved here was to go to each home and ask each kid what they wanted for Christmas. Seeing them show up in December was almost unreal for me. I can't even imagine how the kids who received them felt. What is crazy though.... is that for a lot of these kids- these were their first ever Christmas presents. God's up to something- and it's kind of extravagant.
FELIZ NAVIDAD from all the beautiful Mexican children to you!! The following are just the beginning of many photos from the week we celebrated Christmas with all the casa hogars. To the left are about 1/3rd of the kids at Casa Hogar Douglas praying before lunch. 
The women's group purchased live Christmas trees for every orphanage we serve. At each home, the women decorated ornaments with the kids and helped the kids decorate their tree. Before we left our property each morning the women baked several hundred christmas shaped sugar cookies for the kids to eat while they decorated the tree. No detail was left unnoticed. It was honestly an intense week- but one of the sweetest of my entire life.
Ever wondered what JOY looks like on a little orphan's face? Well wonder no more... it's been captured here with Josue as he ran through the tunnel of women cheering for him as he received his Christmas present. As awesome as a big expensive present is.... it's nowhere near as important or impacting as feeling special and loved-- if even for a moment...
To the right is Angel with his new Rayados jersey. This is a "jersey culture" in many ways. Mexicans love soccer and they love soccer jerseys more I think. They are kind of expensive and pretty much the most awesome Christmas present ever for a kid in a Casa Hogar. He was stoked- about 5 boys at this home got Rayados jerseys and after the christmas party they went outside and played a game. 
Meet "The Women's Group"!!! Most of these women hail from Cincinnati, Ohio. Spending the week with them was possibly my favorite week in all of the 4 months I've lived here. We laughed, we cried, we shopped, we hugged, we baked, we wrapped, we sang.... it was beautiful.
To the right is what I like to call "Santa's Workshop." This group of women flew down presents for every single child at each home we serve. One of my first B2B staff assignments when I moved here was to go to each home and ask each kid what they wanted for Christmas. Seeing them show up in December was almost unreal for me. I can't even imagine how the kids who received them felt. What is crazy though.... is that for a lot of these kids- these were their first ever Christmas presents. God's up to something- and it's kind of extravagant. 
No comments:
Post a Comment