Every year on March 12th, we celebrate Youth Day in Zambia. As I watched the 22 children running around today playing games, I thought back to our first Youth Day in 2010 – which consisted of Mulenga! In 2011, we had most of our staffers here – Abby, Hildah, Elizabeth, Mulenga & Kalenga – but no children yet! Last year, in 2012, we had 14 children. And this Youth Day – to have 22 children on the soccer field was amazing! God has brought us many blessings in the last 3 years!
Youth Day is for anyone in Zambia from aged 13 to 35 that is single, so we try to have most of the games for our staff, but we did throw some kids games in there! They loved the sack races and the water balloon toss! Our adults also love the water balloon toss and enjoyed learning the new game of Ladderball this year!
We ended our day with snacks in the dining hall, but today was a special treat – everyone got cokes, iced donuts, lemons (thanks Uncle Jeff & Aunt Staci!), and lollipops!
We can’t wait to see what (or who!) Youth Day 2014 will bring to New Day!
The adults enjoyed the Ladderball tournament!
Move out of the way - Teacher Carolyn is throwing!!
Mama Lala must have been practicing in America, because she was good at this game!
Mama Joyce had a blast!
We had some awesome snacks this year!
Seconds before Mweene's balloon burst!
Sisi & Cynthia as defending champions of the Water Balloon Toss!
Elizabeth & Wes also defended their title - just wait until 2014 guys - you will be dethroned!
Cason did NOT want to throw his balloon to Glory - he'd rather hand it to her!
Kelitah did great in the sack race!
Sisi easily won the sack race with her long jumps!
Joseph won the sack race for the younger kids, but Mweene was right behind him!
Mama Lala had to give Kefi a boost!
Caedmon & Misheck couldn't stop laughing in the partners' sack race!
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We were just blessed to meet the Wilcoxes on their trip to Nebraska. A week or so ago we were eating with them at a Chik Fil A! Laurie told us to check out "Darbi's Blog" so we did! It is great to see what is happening at the orphanage...happy to see all the children's faces and what God is doing. Praying for you all and how we may help.
Blessings,
Zac and Amanda Turbes
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