Getting Ready

Lord willing, two weeks from now I will be in Shanghai!  Since Shanghai is where Eliana is from Keith and I spent our first week with her there. It is a special place full of incredible memories and I am so excited to be able to go back!

The SuperKids team is preparing to connect with children in orphanages in Shanghai and the other cities we will be in, we keep trying to think of ways to break the ice and alleviate some of the anxiety children may feel meeting a whole group of foreign looking and sounding people.  Here is a post Pat Marcus wrote about this.

One of the projects we plan to do is to take photos of them and then use this nifty little printer to print it out so that they can have a picture of themselves to keep. I am collecting hair bows for the little girls  (so they look and feel exceptionally beautiful in their pictures!) and mirrors for the boys so that they have a special little something all their own. When you think of how there are no mirrors that younger children can see and use in the orphanages you can imagine how much enjoyment a child could get from a small mirror!  We are even taking Velcro so that we can put mirrors where babies can enjoy them! 

Anyway, I've been trying out the photo printer to be sure I know how to run it and everything.  It is such a fun, amazing little thing!  The photo quality is great. And it is just so much fun to watch. It prints the colors in layers, so first you see just yellow, then the reds are added, and so forth until you have a beautiful, full color photo.  I really can't wait to do this with the children in China!

Can I ask y'all to be praying for the team and for the children we will be meeting?  The potential for good is so great,  pray for health and safety and strength so that lots of sweet kiddos can be blessed through this trip!

Also, a HUGE thank you to everyone who has donated toward my trip costs!  I appreciate it so, so much! 

You still have a chance to win the iPad mini through the rest of this week.  The drawing will be on Saturday evening at 7 PM, so if you want a chance to win be sure to donate before Saturday evening!
Here is a little refresher on how you can enter to win:

* Each $5 donation into my SuperKids fund gets you 1 entry into the drawing. $10 gets you two entries; $25 gets you 5; $100 gets you 20 and so on! (Just look on the top right of the blog for my “Donate” button! It’s easy to donate with a credit or debit card this way. It’s easy and safe and there is no charge to you! You do not have to have a paypal account to send us a donation! We will have a record of each donation, the amount donated and the giver’s information.)