Mrs. Crawford taught on the Walk to the Cross today - Matthew 27

We tie dyed shirts. The children will wear the shirts for their musical presentation, "The Easter Tree".

The children are rubbing banding their tshirts for tie dying.

Working on the vases for the Easter lillies.

We spent our Sunday morning worshiping the Lord, together, in our apartment. We had an opportunity to sleep in and took it!! We ate lunch at a wonderful restaurant Tin-boctou with our new missionary friends. The pictures below show some of our friends and the beautiful mango trees which are in season right now. Did you know that mangos grow on a tree and hang from a long stem? Well - they do!! :) For lunch we had lamb and chicken and a very nice man at the restaurant washed our hands probably like they did in Jesus' day. Speaking of Jesus' day - we now see how dirty the feet were that Jesus washed and have a new found understanding of what a humbling experience that was for the disciples.

After lunch, we were taken on a once in a lifetime tour of a bottom of the Niger river - SERIOUSLY! There is bridge that is underwater that we drove on. This time of year the water is low so the road/bridge is used by people. Bridge is an interesting term - it is narrow and there are no sides or shoulders. We were amazed as we saw that the bottom of the river is all rock. It was amazing to see and quite an experience to travel on. Just an FYI - we took the NEW bridge home from that side of town.

Later that evening we went to an English speaking church service at the local Christian church in Bamako and met other missionaries from other organizations. We even met a couple that resides in Congo and one from Toccoa Falls, GA.

Today we had the children for the entire day. They decorate vases for the Easter lillies and watched an animated video about Jesus and the Crucifixion and Resurrection. We spent the afternoon at the pool. Perfect activity for a 100+ degree day.

We will be practicing for our Easter Tree performance this week and continuing to teach on the significance of this week between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday.

Thanks for continuing to pray!