Porters Across the Borders: May 2012

A Late Christmas Party

Since the flooding back in October we have been doing what we can to help families that were affected in the colonia of Agua Shuka. This February we had the opportunity to give them a late Christmas Party. Eduardo is the pastor of a church in that community and we asked him to invite sixty kids along with their parents that were most affected by the flooding. We invited our friend Jorge Campos to MC the party with a group as well as the Global Year group to come and help us put on a party. We had gifts and piñatas donated to us by La Casa de Mi Padre. Jorge spent some of the time singing action songs with the children. Then we played some group games and relays with the kids. The kids all enjoyed the games and had fun participating with our kids and the Global year team. After they got all hot and sweaty we provided them with some sweetbread and a cold drink. As they ate a couple of the global year team members shared a drama and their testimonies with the families. And then it was the big event that is always at every Salvadoran party. That’s right – the piñata. You have to realize that these kids as well as their moms treat piñatas with reckless abandon. So the goal for us is to try keep anyone from getting hurt. Unfortunately much of the hurting happens when the moms are climbing over the kids to get candy or when the child with the stick keeps swinging while other kids are diving for falling candy. Who thought that something fun could be so dangerous? We managed to finish the two piñatas without any serious injury and then it was on to giving the gifts to the kids and giving a package of food to their moms. The gifts were nothing special for most, but for these it was all the Christmas gift they got and they appreciated them. We were glad that we got the chance to have this party for them and hope that we can continue to minister to some of these families in the future.