Last Movie Night

These are the children of the Bible College Students at movie night at the missionaries and Mason serving them.

I will miss this ministry of Mason, Ezra and Carina’s! What a family ministry! On Wednesday night when the parents all go for prayer at the church Carina had the children of the Bible College Students up to their apartment for movie night. This is a family ministry and I loved being a part of this.

Mason starts asking at five o’clock when will it be time for his friends to come up….we got the apartment ready for the children, arranging all the furniture in the room around the small television Paul was able to get here, so that everyone could see. Then hearing all the children gather outside looking up for the signal from Mason, they are so excited they start gathering early as well. When Mason sees that it is seven, he tells his mother it is time and she agrees so he stands at the window and calls to all the children “it’s time friends, come up!”. You can hear the children rushing up the stairs so excited and yet quietly taking off their shoes at the door and sitting with such reverence and quiet in the room waiting for the movie to start.

These little ones have never or rarely seen a Television set let alone a movie, so this will be a lifelong memory to tell their friends back home in the bush about, you can sense in the room that this is a enormous honor for them.

Carina has Mason serve the cookies tonight and it would have blessed your heart to see this five year old minister to all these hungry children and hand out cookies. I served the juice (I have a ministry in PNG of being the ‘juice servant’, especially to a certain MK named Ezra, who says ‘Juice Nana’ on a regular basis in case I forget my role here)

Ezra has a cuddle ministry on Movie night as he moves from one older child to another sitting on their laps and cuddling. I am not sure if he is just trying to find the best seat in the house, so he tries out every lap or he is just trying to spread the love around. But everyone is delighted to hold Ezra and it makes him like everyone’s little brother and adds to the sense of ‘family’  the Greer family has created here.

I will miss this ministry so much, I truly see why Jesus tells us to bless children because they have such a true fragrance of Christ coming from their lives.

This night is also a great model of ministry as a family, watching Carina and the boys. Plus it was so wonderful to hear these children from the bush, many who have known such trauma and pain laugh with delight.  What a refreshing sound!

Bug of the Day….the minute the kids walk out of the apartment they find those giant beetles and start playing with them. Then someone tells me that they are good to eat. It is true I read in a book someone sent Paul and Carina that bugs help with malnutrition, so these little people are pretty smart.

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