kids, a lot of kids

Wow! 50% of the population of Davao is under 16. I've seen a lot of those in the past few days. On Saturday we started the weekend services. Family Circus operates out of a very small building and they pack people into every tiny space possible.
There were 60 kids on this jeepney.


During the services 2 Dentists are extracting teeth in a back room. I sat through about 3 teeth being pulled out. The kids just sit there without a whimper and are given a snowcone to hold against their mouth as they are sent back into the service.
After Sunday's 1st service I road a jeepney taking kids home. This picture is dropping the kids off in their neighborhood. The church rents a lot of jeepneys that run the over 50 routes.
This is the house of one of our team members (Each team of 4 Americans also has 4 Filipinos. It's very humbling to think about how we are working as a team to help all these poor kids and his kids are are the poor kids. His house has 2 rooms, a downstairs and an upstairs. He coordinates all the routes for the services and his youngest son is named Darrel after the missionary.

That seems to be all the pictures this thing will let me upload at the moment so I will try again later. Tomorrow is a free day but we are scheduled from pretty early and most of the day. We are very tired but seeing all those kids this weekend singing to God and being so excited to be in church has given us new energy. Tuesday our team has 2 more assemblies and one of those is supposed to have 3,000 students. That will be exciting. I have to give this computer back and it's almost time to call in to the kids church so I'll update the next chance I get. Thank you all for your prayers.