Some of the Likumi Staff hard at work...or not.

Final Good Bye

Deniss giving his long time teacher a last hug before we left on Monday for the last time. Many tears were shed that morning.

Children at Play, Orphanage at Likumi

Various pictures I took of the younger children at play at the Orphanage Likumi. The first image is not play, but preparing the field for play. I explained in another blog about the way they cut the grass. A weed eater makes for a lot of work but they (the kids) do all the grounds work.

A Different Brain Trust

Dougness, our Driver for this trip, Dinah our Facilator/Lawyer and Zenta the Orphanage Director, and Robin has her back to the camera.

Then and Now

If you think the lines on this primitive soccer are brown, they are. The boys at the orphange cut the field with a weed eater, not a lawn mower, then get a different color soil from around the river to make the lines. This is the same field you saw in the Adoptlatvia blog in January.

Just a friendly game of football...basketball to name a few. If you do not recognize Deniss in the pic he is the one with no shoes.

THE NEW FAMILY at HOME

This picture is of the family that will still be living at home. Ken, Robin, Aaron and Deniss. The is a son and daughter in law, Bobby and Lana Hartzog, that are living in McKinney TX. We do not have a picture of the six of us at the moment. We plan to fix that problem this summer when Bobby and Lana come to PTC and spend some time with us, so keep checking the sight.

FOUR OF A KIND

FROM L to R: John Dollar- Youth Minister Southern Crescent Church of Christ, Tyrone GA, Aaron and Deniss Hartzog, Ken Hartzog - Proud Papa