Our mission is complete! We visited Navajo Ministries Four Corners Home for Children on Tuesday to deliver the baking ingredients and books we purchased. What an amazing and eye opening experience! The Home for Children operates completely on donor money and donations. They presently house 24 children (age birth to 18) with capacity of 28. The facility was built 63 years ago with many houses on campus, a rec room with pool table and hang out area, a working farm where the children do chores to earn spending money, and a classroom complete with computers, a science area and many resources. Sadly, our district pulled funding for the onsite school so the children attend nearby public schools now. The children are blessed by Mrs. Kelly Hargrove, the director, the house parents, the cook and additional support staff who make their lives safer and offer unconditional love. My students and I were lucky to tour the campus, meet some of the children, visit the boy's home and chat with the onsite house parents. Thank you Jesus for my sweet student's caring and generous hearts. Tuesday was a great day.
http://www.navajoministries.org/our-programs/four-corners-home-for-children/
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14 children at the grocery store was a new experience for me! Ms. Tami, Miss Maggie and I took the kiddos to Smiths yesterday and raided the baking ingredient aisle! We spent $240 and came back to PHA with loads of ingredients to donate. Ms. Tami had a wonderful idea to use the leftover money at our school's Scholastic book fair to choose books to take the the Children's Home too. AWESOME! Each child chose a book they felt was interesting and we threw some extras in also. We now have $.58 left and the kiddos feel pretty proud! Way to go 2nd grade! We'll deliver on Tuesday.
See those kiddos? They are kind, hard working, generous and are servants of the Lord. They did chores at home and helped family & friends to raise money for us to buy baking supplies to donate to Navajo Ministries Childeren's Home. We counted the donations today and we'll zip over to Smith's Grocery Store, tomorrow, to shop with Ms. Tammy and Miss Maggie. I can't wait to take the purchased items to the children's home next week. Thank you for your help and extra donations moms & dads.
We were hustlin' this week to get our hallway decorations created before it's time to take them down! The students wrote Reindeer Acrostic Poems and made tear art reindeer. I LOVE tear art , although the kiddos moan & groan each time I bring it up. But, seriously, the most adorable pieces of art are created with this technique. Scissors are banned! We also wrapped presents to put under the tree remembering that Jesus is our best gift of the season.
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Mrs. Nicole PayneI teach 2nd grade and love learning with my students! I am a Starbucks addict, Jesus lover and mom of 2 teenagers. My husband, Josh, & I have been married for 19 years. We moved our family from Gilbert, AZ 12 years ago and now call Farmington home. Piñon Hills Academy
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