Games
Some of the missionaries with Paul's group organized games for the kids to play as one of the segments of the Festival. They all seemed to have a great time.

Children enjoying games with Adam at the Children's Festival

Adam playing with the children at the Children's Festival

Crafts
Fran and others put together different crafts that corresponded to the Bible story that would be taught that day. The kids all loved the crafts and I think the people who helped loved helping too.

Fran teaching the craft in a Children's Festival Fran oversees the crafts More crafts

Whitney Helps with the crafts Ally and Camille helping with the craft at a Children's Festival Children enjoying the craft at the Children's Festival in the Orphanage

Music
Evelyn, LaDonna and Angela sang songs with hand motions with the children in the Children's Festivals. The kids always had a lot of fun. They even sang songs in Russian. We would hear the kids walking around after the festivals still singing the songs that they taught them. It was great! Joseph and Victoria (part of Paul Sisemore's team) also helped.

A Horse enjoys the music too Children Enjoying the music at a Children's Festival Adam and the gang getting jiggy with it!!! Children enjoying the music at the Children's Festival More Music from the Children's Festival

Angela, LaDonna, Evelyn, Victoria and Joseph leading the Children in song Evelyn, La Donna, Adam and many kids enjoying the music Adam getting jiggy with it!! Evelyn and LaDonna leading music at Children's Festival Joseph and Victoria lead some songs in Russian

Bible Story
Denise and Fran along with Anya (one of the interpreters) took turns sharing a Bible story with each festival. Many children heard the gospel story and prayed to receive Jesus during this part of the Festival.

Denise Teaching with Anya (one of our translators)

Denise teaching the children at a Children's Festival

Face Painting
Ally, Beth, Camille, Galey, Lyle and Whitney all helped with the face painting portion of the Children's Festival. This was quite a big hit with the kids. The artists would paint different things on the faces of the children that would correspond with the gospel story that was being presented. The kids loved it. I think the face paint artists loved it too.

Ally prepares to paint a face Galey, Camille and Ally painting faces Lyle paints a face Lyle painting a face as Conner (one of the missionaries) looks on

More face painting Galey models the face paints Beth preparing to paint faces Whitney Gives Denise a New Look

Make Up
This was a "one time" part of the first Children's Festival that we did. At the orphanage in Udytze, Stephanie (one of the resident missionaries who was a regular to the orphanage) told us that the older girls never participated in anything that they did when they came out to minister in the orphanage. We began to think about this and thought that maybe we could do something with make up and perfume and things like that which these girls would enjoy. This would hopefully be our avenue to share the gospel with them. Well, as you can see in these pictures, it was a great success and all of these girls ended up praying to receive Jesus because of this practical ministry in their lives.