Estonia, Lighthouse VIM Update, Thursday, June 10, 2010

Thursday at the Lighthouse
Today was our last day at the Lighthouse. We hustled around to get ready for the last day of music and puppets. We set up the front room with the puppet stage and the music sheets so that we could perform for all of the adults in the building. We finished making our Oklahoma chili and made spaghetti for the lunch. We told the children that it was "cowboy" or "cowgirl" chili. They seemed to really like it. We made it on the mild side. It was "no alarm" chili. We also bought Coke for them, which they wanted an unending cup! After lunch we did our performance, and the children did very well. They gave us a hand made art card with dimensional flowers on it as a gift. We sang the chorus "Alleluia" together at the end.

At lunch, one of the former Lighthouse kids came by. He is now a medic in the army. I think that the Lighthouse gives these children a hope for a different life from what they presently have. Their home backgrounds are so bad that in America they would be removed to a foster home. Here in Estonia, they do not do that too often, since the alternate is an orphanage.

Dave and Wayne did all of the painting that they could. Wayne was still wanting to get another coat of paint on the stairwell, but I think that time is running out for them. The work that they did was well appreciated.

Tonight we are going to Mallś (director of the Lighthouse)house for dinner. Her husband doesn´t speak English, but smiles all of the time! (Love in any language!)

Tomorrow we are heading to the south, and will take a ferry across. We will attend an Estonian church on Sunday. Delores is singing "Surely the Presence of the Lord" on Sunday. She has a beautiful voice.

If I don´t have a computer in the hotel, I won´t be able to email. This may be my last until we get home.

Thanks for your continued prayers.

Wayne and Judy
Dave and Jan
Delores