02 September 2017
The Diospi Suyana 10th anniversary celebrations showed that
there is a real heart for children here!
We had three kids’ events across the week straddling the official anniversary (Thursday 31 August). These were two movie
afternoons and a main stage concert. At
each event the children heard the Gospel, received a Gospel story handout and a
food treat to take home. The movie sessions had 380 kids attending each day and
the main stage concert had approximately 400 kids attending.
The movie afternoons were our family’s first experience in helping
to run an event for Peruvian kids. We
had a small team, just the Peruvian leader, Gladys and two newly arrived German
voluntarios. It was a fun learning
experience. But definitely chaotic. At one point I was left alone with the
microphone and a room of 380 Spanish only speaking children! Thankfully I did not need to try and speak
Spanish to them all!
We screened a VeggieTales Pirate movie. These kids do not sit still for long at
all! Also a Curahuasian cultural
expectation is that popcorn must accompany a movie… but our venue in the
council chambers didn’t allow food! J We had a hard time monitoring the kids
slipping out the door to bring food back in.
The toilets were a novelty for them and I am sure every one of the 380
kids in attendance went!
Our Sarah and Georgia did a great job of clowning around in
the street to attract attention and to invite kids inside – see photo below.
For the second afternoon movie session, we managed the door
much better and asked that kids only go to the toilet once… it was much
calmer. It was exciting to see that the
local children were so keen to come along and they were so eager to take a
bible story booklet home with them. As a
culture they do not queue well, a mob exit of many children is harder to manage
but everyone got their copy.
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| The amazing Gladys Hurtado - friend and Club de Ninos leader. Here before 380 kids in the Curahuasi council chambers. |
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| Sarah and Georgia made great clowns! |
The third event was at the end of the week and was an afternoon kids’
concert in the main Diospi auditorium.
There was much music and dancing and a dramatic Gospel presentation.
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| A colourful singing and dancing presentation in the Diospi Suyana auditorium. |
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| Gladys Hurtado and David Guizado in the Diospi Suyana ute distributing our gift packs. |
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| The children of Curahuasi are very open to attending Christian events, small or large. Please pray for them as they are the key to real cultural belief change here. |
Love, Sandi
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