Fiji Day 7 - Friday

We all woke up thinking "this is the last full day we will have with the kids" and all of a sudden the reality that our short term mission trip was going to be over struck us!!! i felt myself treasuring the last few days in the house more.

After our usual bread and coffee brekkie we trooped over to church where small Peter led us in our morning devotions of reading 1 John 5:5-13 as well as Pslams 147. We had a minor discussion on how the scripture passage provided a circular argument on which came first - believing or the testimony of believing which was really interesting.

When the kids arrived, they started with playing a few games.. and then Grace Choy gave the FINAL talk and posed the question "Do you want Jesus to be your King?" before leading them in the sinner's prayer. A lot of them took it very seriously and looked to be praying earnestly. The younger kids also followed in the prayer but i'm not too sure if they understood what it was about. But we knew that at the end of the day we had planted the seed of the gospel in their hearts.

During craft time, everyone made a crown to symbolise being a Prince/Princess as our Father is a King. The kids took it so seriously and concentrated on decorating their crowns with colour and glitter. They loved it!!

Then came memory verse and prize presentation time...The kids had to stand up and recite all the memory verses from Day 1 to Day 5. Most of them could recite the verses from at least 3 days which was very encouraging. We distributed the colour pencils and other stationery which had been wrapped up nicely at the prize giving ceremony, as well as pass them their hand painted t-shirts from the day before.

And like that, the programs for the Kids Club Fiji was over. Our "mission" was over. We were so proud of them, having seen the kids having learnt so much about God in just the past week. Once again, we reminded them to tell their parents to come on Sunday, to bring them here to watch them dance as a presentation item.

We finally had a few hours to shop in Suva city before dinner. We all walked around a little bit but the stuff in Fiji is actually quite expensive and we weren't willing to fork out so much for the items that caught our eye (especially since our bargaining skills did not work too well there).

Pastor Herbert and Esther brought us out for dinner and we had good fun sharing and laughing with them. We understood that it's very hard for them here to grow the church but still they are trusting in God and persevering to reach out to the Chinese community in Suva.

We trooped home looking forward to our free day tmr where we had booked an "island tour" where we could head to Pacific Harbour for a 30 boat ride out where we could do snorkelling...

Each Dai Di card game session at the end of the day would always bring us closer with conversation and banter. It had become our routine.. our little wind down session where some of us would be playing and multi-tasking playing PSP, writing our daily reflection journals or magazines. Rotating players whilst waiting for our turn to shower...

Saturday's plans were totally ruined though.. but that's going to have to be ranted in another post... :)