Christmas at Shalom

The boys woke early, excited about the day's activities.  Everyone was given a new shirt and a pair of jeans as Christmas gifts from the students at Kenmore State School in Brisbane.  As you can see from the group photo below they looked wonderful in their new clothes.  They then went to church and performed some dances as part of the service.  An extra surprise was that 3 of the boys who previously stayed at the Shalom, turned up at church and asked if they could spend Christmas with Israel and the boys.  It was so lovely that they wanted to spend Christmas with their Shalom family. Muthusiva had to go back to work the next day but Manoj and Divagar stayed for a few days and had lots of fun playing cricket with the other boys.  After church it was off to lunch at KFC (see seperate post) rest and games in the afternoon and then for dinner they feasted on Briyani cooked by Pastor Daniel.  I'm sure everyone slept well that night.

Early morning on Christmas day with their gifts

Babu modelling his new shirt and jeans

The boys from Shalom  in their new clothes.  No longer orphans, now proud young men and future leaders.