BBQ Time at ZOE

Because the priority for David right now is language study and because of our season of life with young children, our opportunities to participate in activities and ministry at ZOE are limited right now. We look forward to getting more involved in the middle of the year.

However, when we do have a chance, we try to make it out to different events. Various short-term missions teams and financial supporters of ZOE come to serve throughout the year. Recently, we had a team from The Sanctuary Church in Santa Clarita. During one of the evenings, there was a BBQ. We had the blessing of fellowshipping with ZOE staff, children, missionaries, and Sanctuary team members.

Here are the boys during the prep:

Staff preparing some food:

Here's a blog post about the amazing ZOE staff who can create something out of nothing.

Missionaries & sisters Lynne & Carol (co-founder) getting the skewers ready:

Vegetable skewers...yummy:

Mats & BBQs for each family:

One of the unique things about ZOE Children's Homes is that the children are placed in small family units. ZOE hires staff to care for these children as their fathers and mothers. Some of these house parents have children of their own as well. Here's a great post from one of the other missionary families about the ZOE house parents. You can only imagine the difficult ministry that these parents have in caring for these children who've come from unimaginable hardship and suffering. Praise God that He sustains them each day.

Ian, excited for the BBQ:

Eli with Auntie Kaylee, who came out about a month before us:

Ian with one of the teenage missionary children Elli:

Waiting for the BBQ to begin:

Ian with Daddy:

The boys goofing off with Daddy:

All the families enjoying their meal:

Love grilled veggies:

P. Rin (in the photo below) graduated from ZOE's bible school & is now working as an intern:

We love getting to know the staff and hearing how they came to ZOE. The other staff we got to eat with was P. Rit who also graduated from the bible school & now serves in media for ZOE. He shared that his family was the only Christian family in his village. His parents came to know Christ through missionaries. Now most of his village are professing Christians.

And here's a video of the praise time before the BBQ:

What a blessed time! ZOE had Sanctuary team members rotate mats every 5-10 minutes to meet and fellowship with different families. Loved it. As you can see, Ian had a blast too.