Children's ministry

I (Heather/Erica) love ministering to children!  In Sunday School at the missionary church, we talked about different ways to worship the Lord (singing, shouting, dancing, kneeling, raising hands, clapping, etc.), and I taught the children a worship dance to the song "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Chris Tomlin.  We practiced for a few weeks and then presented it to the church with the worship team.  The dance was with hand motions, so after the photo was taken we asked the congregation to join in!

Now the class has started learning a second dance to the song "We the Redeemed" by Hillsong.  We are working on the dance for the first 15 minutes of each Sunday School class.

Last weekend, we invited our pastor Don and his three children over for a pancake breakfast since his wife Heather was in Pennsylvania for a couple of weeks visiting friends.  Then we babysat the kids for a few hours to give Don a break.  We had fun going for a walk, picking a wildflower bouquet, playing DS's, and baking sugar cookies.

Michael and Don, with our maid Micaela
in the background.

The hot dogs are all gone!  There are still some
sugar cookies left to bake in the center of the
table.  Yummy!

Our maid Micaela commented that all the kids look like they're mine!  Aidan and Ali are 7-year-old twins and Olivia is 2 years old.  It was a blessing to have them with us.

Veronica is growing and learning all the time.  She copies everything we do, like getting water from the "clean water" dispenser.

"How come my sisters don't hear
'Don't touch!' whenever they do this?"

She likes to climb up on the couch just like Andrea to drink her milk while watching TV in Spanish together.

"How come they don't keep telling
my sisters 'Don't spill your drink!'?"

And she only wanted to ride her push toy after seeing Olivia ride it when she was at our house.

"Finally, they tell my sisters
'Don't ride it'
instead of telling me!"