First Week of a new Month

I spoke at MCP’s staff meeting this week (MCP is the organization we are doing most of our work through). I haven’t done a lot of prepared speaking like that so I was quite nervous. Of course it just happened to be the largest MCP staff meeting ever. I was also speaking through a translator which I had never done before and therefore somewhat difficult. However, several people told me they thought it went well and I felt ok about. So that was good. I found that I very much wanted to figure out what I thought the people at MCP needed to hear, but after a while I realized that it is not so much about what they needed to hear as about what God was leading me to speak about.

Thursday we visited a large children’s home north of Yangon. 150 children all together. Catherine and I worked with the little ones which was really great. The children here are beautiful. Catherine jumped rope with the kids (I never knew that she was such a crack rope jumper) and we played ball games and taught some english vocab. Their favorite game though was “Dit, Nit, Thoeng” (One Two Three) and then we would lift them in the air.

Here are some pictures: