Thursday Scotland Update

Today has been amazing at the park! This morning in our mission meeting Perry shared with us that he was struggling with not allowing the children to paint their park due to safety issues. He shared scripture from Mark 9:33-37 and Mark 10:13-16 and his thoughts on how important receiving children is to Him. He felt led to have us each partner with a child to allow them to paint their own park so that they will take ownership in this park and protect it. Wow! This was powerful! We not only got a ton of painting done this afternoon but relationships were built between children/teenagers and the mission team and lives are being changed. Please pray for the 2 children that are partnered with me, Patty Sue and Charlene. Patty Sue is a beautiful blonde/red haired 6 year old who came to Christ with Miss Dixie this week and is quick to tell others that she has heard about Jesus. Charlene is a beautiful 10 year old girl who has never heard about God or Jesus and heard the story today and is thinking about what she has heard. My prayer is that she will start to ask questions as we paint together. Several teenagers that have been very harsh since we started in the park are having very honest conversations with Perry who was right at their age when he first learned about Christ. This community is catching on to what we are doing and asking questions. We have had amazing weather for the Scotland area with very little rain and great sunny, warm days. We pray that this weather pattern continues b/c we are down to the last 24 hours of painting. We have gala celebration day planned for all day Saturday where we will have bouncy thing, hot dogs, face painting, etc.

We also decided on the spot this morning in mission team meeting to have a huge celebration at the church Sunday centered around this community that we are working with . We will be going in vans to pick them up and they will be with us during worship music time, then we will show slide show of pictures from our week at the park, and then the children from the park will be singing 2 songs being led by Miss Dixie. The church has a special program planned and then we are providing pizza hut lunch for everyone afterwards. This is going to be huge! Please pray!