Different Experiences on the Mission Field

This Sunday, at our Haiti team meeting, we had a presentation from Roy and Dina Brent, who worked in Kenya for about thirty-eight years. Dina mostly talked about her Sunday School for young children. She described how there are many similarities to the children in America, more than you would probably guess. Children have an attention span of about their age. Children love to do activities. The children in Kenya loved to sing, while that is not generally the case in America. But because one of the major influences in people's lives is their experiences, the children of Haiti may not have some of the skills we expect them to have such as coloring. One thing Dina found interesting was the children of Kenya had never seen puzzles. They were something that they were never exposed to in their life. One thing Dina could almost assure of was that the children would have ball skills. You can make a ball out of rags and many children do. There are going to be some cross-culture issues that we are going to have to deal with. Language will be a big problem.