THIS IS HOW YOU DO CHURCH

This is how you do Church
Service at Cheryl's Children's Home 6 of September, 2009
Central City Community Church on skid row has nothing on these kids. Worshiping with them was amazing, it was a great way to spend my first Sunday Kenya.
The service was run by the older students who played the drums and the keyboard while two others lead the singing. They danced around and clapped their hands and had so much fun. The service was full of Joy and laughter and music. It was “church” in its purest form, lead by children. At one point someone asked for testimonies of God's goodness and EVERY SINGLE ONE of those kids in turn stood up and said “praise the Lord” to which everyone else replied “Amen” which prompted a “praise the Lord again” from whomever was speaking and another “amen” from everyone else. They then spoke of God's goodness and their thankfulness to him. Some of them read a verse or two and a couple even gave little mini sermons! It was so incredible. I am always struck by how real and big and good God is to the teachers and students here. It is encouraging but also convicting. There is something that the people here have that we sometimes forget we have back in the states. And that is a need for God in our lives. Everyday. And a reliance on Him that we sometimes loose because we have so much. I have a feeling that this is only the first of many lessons that I will learn from these incredible children and am so blessed to be able to be here....
KENYAN TIDBITS:
*A commercial heard on the radio in Nairobi: “when you have to go to the bathroom, you just have to go. But when you need the news, we bring it to you.”
*Storm over paradise update: (dont act like you dont want it)Nicolas is out of the hospital, but Imar is still in prison and her trial is not going well. Karina Rosinberg who paid someone to kidnap her kid and then framed Imar has cancer and is in the hospital still plotting everyones death that gets in her way (no one knows that shes sick by the way). The real Karina Rosinberg is hiding out somewhere biding her time until she reveals who she is. They call her the little mermaid and she always the dumbest look on her face. She bugs me. The fake Karina still loves David, her husbands brother and he is pretending to love her in order to expose her evilness. This of course, is causing some problems with his girlfriend. David and Nicolas' dad is responsible for the death of Imar's father (we just found out tonight) and Jose Miguel is still in love with Imar and trying to be her hero even though she keeps telling him that she can only be his friend cause her heart belongs to Nicolas... poor Jose Miguel. He's not even that good looking and has a weird relationship with his mom.