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The children’s behaviour could be
quite challenging, as hitting each other
seemed to them to be the best way to
make sure they got to spend time with
their favourite team member! All of us
desired to become Jesus’ hands and feet
One of the highlights for the team was and to use our limited time to show as
the time spent at the play park located much of Jesus’ love as we could by
a 10-minute walk from the soup freely giving our time and attention.
kitchen. We cleaned up the park by
picking up as much rubbish and broken We also spent several days working
glass as we could, and spent time with the staff of Life Community
praying that the area would become Services to clean and pack resources
known as a safe haven for the children in preparation for their relocation as
who played there. Each of our young well as assisting in their after-school
people appeared to be “adopted” by a club. Gender roles seemed to be very
child during play times and enjoyed a traditional as again, the boys were
bond forged through countless smiles, tasked with mainly manual labour
piggy-back racing games, holding while the girls assisted in the kitchen
hands, carrying them on our shoulders by cooking, cleaning and organising
and singing all kinds of songs together. food delivery for the satellite centres.
