Saying Farewell

We say farewell to the team from Tennessee today who has been working in all of our 6 communities to facilitate Holiday Clubs this past week. They did a phenomenal job at not only teaching the kids about God’s plan and love for their lives and by encouraging the Life Skills Educators. The most memorable part of this week was the parents night on Thursday – the Life Skills Educators invited the parents to come and see what their kids have been upto during the week. A few emotions from that: 1) I wanted to cry to see the sadness in some the kids faces when their parents didn’t show up – out of the 80 or so kids there, only about 25 parents came; 2) The pride in the parents who did come’s faces when they saw their kids performing these songs and dances also moved me to a tear; and 3) and then seeing the way the Life Skills Educators were encouraged and inspired this past week made me want to do this all over again! Thank you guys for what you did for us here this past week!