Last Day

Hi, friends!  Well, today was a sightseeing day to Biblos and Jeita Grotto, but not for 3 of us.  Tim and I and another lady on our team got to spend the better part of the morning at the local hospital - woohoo!  We took up rooms 1, 2, and 3 of the ER, and I got a picture of Tim in his room along with our awesome host couple:

They gave us IV fluids and some anti-nausea medication, and then loaded us up on 4 prescriptions.  We slept most of the rest of the day and we're both feeling better - not 100% but definitely better.  They told us to eat boiled potatoes and toast, so Kim told the kitchen at the convent that, and they brought us this tray:

They've been super nice and friendly here - it was a GREAT place to stay!  So the team arrived back about 4pm from all the sightseeing and the kids said they had a great time - so glad for them!  Nathan wasn't feeling very well, but he made it through the day and then he went with the team to meet local ministry leaders but they dropped him off right afterwards on their way to dinner and he's sleeping now.  Please be praying for him!  The hospital said we have to call them tonight to get cleared to get on the plane - didn't know the hospital had that kind of power.  But we are definitely better so we're just waiting for the team to get back so we can ask Kim to make that call for us.   And then we'll be leaving here in about 3 hours - about 1:15am to get to the airport by 2:15am for a 4:20am flight.  Then we have like a 6 hour layover in Frankfurt, Germany and then a direct flight to Tampa from there.  

I have so much more I want to share, but also want to be sensitive to everyone's time.  Of course, you can always stop reading, right?  :-)  So first I want to talk a little more about the orphanage.  I'll try to upload some more pictures when we get back or maybe during our 6 hour layover, but I'm just not up to the time consuming-ness of it right now.  Anyway, one of the stories I want to tell you about started the week before we left on this trip.  Tim saw a new client couple in his office and he let them know he wouldn't be available for the next week because we were going on a missions trip to Lebanon.  The guy said, "Here - take this $100 and give it to the orphans".  Tim asked the guy how he knew we were going to an orphanage because he hadn't mentioned it, and he just said God told him and wanted that money to go to the orphanage.  We gave it to the director, Karim, yesterday and he was so happy - it was awesome.   Tim felt like he couldn't give Karim the guy's name since he is a confidential client, but Karim wrote a thank you note and a receipt and asked Tim to give it to the guy.  

Tim did some art therapy with the girls having them draw pictures of something that makes them feel safe and other pictures of emotions, and then we took their pictures and stapled them into little booklets.  Some of the girls really got the idea and their drawings were very expressive - which was Tim's goal - that they would be able to get in touch with their feelings.  Then the last order of business of the day was Chagy the clown, which the girls absolutely loved, and many of them accepted Christ.  We then passed out gift bags we had put together for them earlier in the week, and they just loved them!

The team just got back from dinner, and I went out so I could say goodbye to Kim and David, our host couple. David's background is tech arts, and for the service tonight (again, Tim and I didn't go, so I'm just letting you know what David told me) he had Nicholas sit with him on the boards and help out.  Nicholas just came in our room and said he really enjoyed that, and really loved getting to know this team.  I have to agree with him - everyone had such great attitudes and were just awesome!  I'm looking forward to hearing from everyone about their day today, and will hopefully have some pictures and stories to tell.  Blessings to you all!