Today, most of the team woke up and went to the pre-k orphanage (3-7 year olds). Garth & Bill took a few of the kids from orphanage #4 to begin construction at Tomsk UMC. We had a great time with the preschoolers, but were incredibly exhausted afterwards! The orphanage has about 60 kids, and there were 10 Americans as well as 2 translators. They split the children into 5 groups and us "Americanskis" paired up, so there were around 10 children for 2 of us to handle. They definitely liked to climb all over us (I think I was holding 3 at one point!), and they really liked to pet my leg & arm hair and call me "Da Da". There's really no men at the orphanage, so I guess I was the father figure for them for the day. haha. Here are a few pictures I've taken. We'll get some better one's up later and some from the work at Tomsk UMC, but this is all I have with me right now. Sorry! Thanks again for all your prayers & support!
Kevin
Seroga (9 years old from Orphanage 4) proudly displaying the cross he colored.
Losha, Me, John, George, and Sasha playing "futbol" at Orphange 4.
All the preschoolers at Orphanage 1 loved the camera!
I got tackled...several times.
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