Saturday, November 07, 2009

Meeting Needs...

This past week has been an amazing week around here in these parts! We just sent off a group from the States that have been with us for the past 9 days. They were here helping us with our ministry to Autistic children and their families. I have to say that they were ONE AMAZING TEAM with so much talent. We saw 18 children and trained about 15-20 shadows, parents and teachers each day. They were able to ease some parent's minds and were also able to give them the tools they need for their children.

Training Time:



Mervat, one of our translators and a dear friend to our family:

Julie and Vicky with Stacey and Matthew Ray
April with Vicky and Julie


The team also spent time playing with our kids and loving on them:


And....while they were here we also celebrated my (Stacey's) 38th birthday at the NEW Outback Steakhouse. It was such a fun time of relaxation in the middle of an intense week.


Don't ask...but just know that this is pure talent (I'm just sayin:)







THANKS GUYS! WE LOVE YOU AND CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO COME BACK AGAIN!!!!!

Madison's Ear Piercing

For Madison's 7th birthday she asked to have her ears pierced. Her daddy was a little reluctant....




BUT he allowed it because in our culture ALL little girls have their ears pierced from birth. She sounds pitiful at the beginning of this video but you see how happy she is by the end. :)