Each year the kids leave the home in December in order to stay with families or pastors who volunteer to take care of them for a month in order to give the orphanage staff some time off to be with their own families.

So a group of churches came down from Florida to visit Casa Shalom last week in order to give the kids a Christmas party gave the final party before everyone left for the break. We enjoyed going and visiting the kids one last time this year, and they all enjoyed meeting Margaret for the first time.

We’re going to miss seeing them these next few weeks!

The kids also gave Margaret a cute card: