It has been another incredible week working with teams!  We have been to orphanages, villages, project sites, and the list goes on and on.  Painting.  Soccer.  Bible stories.  Our days are FULL!!  I’m fairly certain that some of hardest “workers” last week were a few of the children that came down with their parents!  Who are the best people to play with kids??  Other kids!!  It was so much fun to see them interacting with the Haitian children.  They played in the Village of Hope and did wonderfully out in the villages!  I’m fairly certain that “tag” is a game known around the world.  It was also a guaranteed way to get them to sleep at night!  Most days they didn’t even make it back to campus without falling asleep on the vehicles.  It definitely brought a smile to my face every time the team would arrive back at campus and a child was being carried off the canter. 

It also made me think of Jesus.  It helped me understand more and more why He said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” – Matthew 19:14.  For the children that stayed with MOH this week, it was easy: Play and have a lot of fun!  It was also challenging to me to take a step back and look at my own life.  Do I complicate things too much?  Do I trust the Lord like a little child?  Needless to say, I’m so thankful that I had a few days with some very special children!

-Elizabeth Billingslea