To India, With Love: Caden’s Update

Caden: On my trip so far, we have now seen two boys’ homes and one girls’ home. We are going to northern India on Friday. At two of the homes, we did VBS. At the first home, something that was interesting was that they gave us fabric flowers. We played a circle game with a ball. On Sunday, we went to a very big church service which was 6 hours long. At one point during the service, for me it was very brave to be around a lot of girls that were much older than me. I was with one group of 30 girls and another group of 10 girls. We got to sit up in front of many children. I think there were about 300 kids. I got to speak in front of all the children. I told them my favorite Bible story was about Christ being born. The reason why it’s my favorite Bible story is because it talks about Jesus coming to earth.

On Monday, we saw the other boys’ home. We had a lot fun with them. We did VBS with them. First, at the home, we played a bouncing game where when you bounced the ball to somebody you had to say what the leader says, like food or animals or your name. Also, we acted out the story of Jesus calming the storm. We did the same thing at the girls’ home, but at the boys’ home, the second time, they got to do it with us.

On Tuesday, we saw a group of 10 girls and some other homes came, too. We saw a few of the homes do dances together. We saw the 10 girls and, at the end, we did VBS stations. My favorite station was the parachute games. I liked them because one game was about Jesus calming the storm. We wiggled it a little at the start and then harder when the storm came. The other game was about getting the ball to one side, but one time, somebody kicked the ball and it went all the way down to the ground and somebody else had to throw it back up to the roof.