July has been full of Mission groups coming down to serve the children at the daycare and the families in the community. We are so grateful for all help these groups have provided Open Arms.

This summer Gateway Church from Colorado Springs joined us to minister to the kids at the daycare and to start the construction of the house that burned down in the community. In addition to slaving in the hot sun they, each person in the group brought around 14o0 lbs of rock and sand up a 60ft hill to poor the foundation of the house. They also held an outreach in the community and held a VBS (Vocational Bible School) for the children at the daycare. They had a puppet ministry and a great prayer ministry as well.  Open Arms was very blessed to have them here at the daycare, and pray they were blessed by the children and community.

Canyon Hills Assembly of God brought two groups down this summer. First “Upper Room” designed a kids program for the daycare kids surrounding the story of Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors. They also provided lunch for the kids by cooking up some hot dogs. Second, some youth and adults from Canyon Hills came a couple weeks later to work on the house that burned down in the community. Thanks guys for all your help!

Hope Chapel also blessed us with a weekend of fun in the sun for the daycare. We took the the kids to play at the beach and soak up some sun. The kids had a blast. The group also projected the movie Narnia on a big screen in the park for the community and gave out free hot dogs for all who attended.

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