Faith Sense

A couple of years ago I was blessed to be able to make a trip to Belarus to do some humanitarian aid and share my faith with those that asked questions on the subject. We provided quite a number of children's vitamins and peanut butter to the national Special Olympics organization there. It was a very memorable trip and we made some good friends

I once played Chicken Foot in Shanghai, China, with several people who did not speak English, and I do not speak any Chinese. It was great fun. It gave me confidence that it would worlk with a guest to our home from another foreign land. We had dinner guests last Friday. Barry, who was a missionary in Belarus for several years, married a Belarussian woman. They moved to the States a few years ago. They have a daughter who is just past a year old. Barry's wife, Lucy is excited that her mom has recently been granted a visa and is here visiting for the first time.

She only speaks Russian, and our family only speaks Texan. But we had a lot of fun. After eating together, we got out the double nine dominos and played Chicken Foot. It is an easy game to grasp and it is a riot to hear the frustrations and the glee of the game expressed in both languages. At the end of the evening, I gave Lucy's mom, Leeza, a box of the dominos as a Christmas gift so she can take the game home to Belarus. She was very pleased!