Samaritan's Purse Okalasi, Gabon

Do you remember my blog on the Okalasi church? It's the one that started small, but then has grown due to the Samaritan's Purse Christmas Shoeboxes. We took some teams out there this past summer and helped them start on the foundation for the church. There were a few kids that came everyday and helped us... Seraphin and Oliver are two of those kids. We went there this past Sunday for church with Pastor Jean Marc (the man who is in charge of the Samaritan's Purse program for Gabon - yeah we know all the important people :) Well it turns out he was going to give some kids in the church certificates for participating in the Mailbox Club.
The Mailbox club is ""through-the-mail" Bible lessons, stories, and games as a tool for spiritual teaching and encouragement". I had never heard of them but apparently they are partnering with "Sam's Purse". Well as I found out these kids have done 100 lessons to be able to get these certificates - WOW you say... well that's not even the impressive part! The two children who I mentioned before can't read so they would take their lessons home and have their parents help them with them!!! I was so impressed and proud of my boys!! Please continue to pray for these two! That God would continue to grow in them and give them a desire to know Him! To me this is one of the true success stories of the Shoebox program, not just giving kids gifts, but teaching them about a God who loves them!!