Día del Niño

Kids often ask, "If we celebrate Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, why don't we celebrate Children’s Day?" Well, send them to Costa Rica! Yesterday, Sept. 9, we celebrated Children’s Day at Los Güizaros with a fiesta! It was a long and tiring day, but a lot of fun. We started off by cooking in Cecilia’s kitchen.

The fare for the day included the typical party foods of arroz con pollo (rice with chicken), frijoles molidos (refried black beans), fried tortillas, and a drink. You can see from these pictures that the kitchen is less than industrial sized (and this is even after a few improvements were made this year), but we managed to cook for almost 200 people – and the food tasted great if I do say so myself!

A group of international missionaries recently moved into the neighborhood, and they agreed to come and do a program for the kids. Two clowns performed and a short video was shown. The clowns are missionaries - one from Spain and the other from Equador. The kids loved them.


The traditional piñatas brought chaos and lots of candy for the kids to scramble after. Just in case they didn’t get enough sugar from the piñatas, we gave each child a small ice cream cone and a ‘goodie bag’ with a toy, some candy, crackers, and a notebook. Many of the items that we were able to give the kids had been donated by a couple of local churches and a work team that was recently here from Tennessee. God definitely blessed the children of Los Güizaros this Children’s Day, and they saw how much He loves them. What a privilege to be able to serve God this way.