Kerce

The children's carnival was called Kerce, which means Jump! They provided games, crafts and music to roughly 1500 local children over the course of three days. Amazingly enough, the team that does this carnival every year is from a church in St. Louis.

In addition to the 50+ Americans from St. Louis, a group of 13 from Liverpool were helping, as well. They played football every afternoon against an All-Star Kosovar team. Notice the American flags... they were everywhere in Kosova. The people love Americans for the help our troops gave during the war with Serbia.

My station was indoor crafts. We used a public school building as the carnival base, and put tarps down on the floor.

Most of the children who attended were from Muslim families. Before the craft, one of the team members would speak about Jesus to the kids, and in our room, it was never a problem. There was one boy who drew a picture headed with the word Allah, who was trying to tell me that Jesus wasn't God (I had written Jezusi eshte Zot on the blackboard). He pointed to his palm, the way the lines form an A for Allah...

One day, walking home from the carnival we got caught in a downpour. Here we are waiting it out...

"Jesus is God"

I am going to miss mountains so much when I get home!