Friday, July 25, 2008

Card Game in the children's home


I only took this video because the boys playing were so giddy over winning. They are playing "War" with Gabriella who travelled with us.
They were laughing and giggling so hard that they started to forget to take the cards. I guess winning will do that to a person. Sometimes knowing you won is better then the actual winnings.
While we were there, we never saw one disagreement, fight, bad remark, degrading, jealous reaction, or dirty look. They functioned as a happy and well established family. They held eachother in the highest regard and took each person's role in the house seriously. Any serious matters are handled with wisdom and serious counsel and is not aired with people who are not involved.
The children are separated within 3 houses: Girl house, boy house, brick house. Each house has house parents who live in an ajoining house. They raise the 14 kids in their house like they were their own. There was no distiction between biological children and adoptive children. The center is kept in immaculate care. Each child has daily duties of cleaning and care taking. They keep their home clean and presentable, unlike most of what we saw coming from the homes of the villages.
There was such a stark contrast between the Christian Children's home and the non-believing villages, Sue called it an oasis in a dark land, and it truly was and is for the children and for us.
Sue is the director of the center. She is almost 70 and stil runs around the cambodian country side like she was 19. She plans on retiring in a small cottage right on the centers back land. She will be in my prayers, God is doing a great work through her.

2 comments:

Naarski (the Mrs.) said...

what were the differences between believing and non-believing?

JamaJama said...

the horns, is my guess.

Kidding.
Ok... Lasha... this is so cool. Thanks for sharing the video of the happy kids.