"Shading" with our CoG kids

St. Nicolaus Primary School is home to about 30 of our nursery age CoG sponsored children. Almost all of these children are from the nearby village of Masesse, and are boarding either because there is not a school accessible in Massese, their guardians cannot care for them or their living conditions are very poor.  When our green jeep drives up they all come running and some are at the gate crying every time we leave. Today, Cassidy, Sylvia and I went to St. Nic's with coloring pages and crayons to let these kids "shade", and you can see from the pictures how happy they were. They rarely, if ever, get to color so it was a very exciting day. Next week we'll go back and teach them what the colors are: red, blue, green, yellow.......

Here's Rachael, who always crys and looks so sad .........

The first time I've seen her smile is when she got to color...........