One hundred and thirty-three ladies graduated from the prenatal seminar at Shiphrah (Exodus One) Birthing Home this week. We had special celebrations on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for their families…with games and food.

Expectant mothers received with pride a certificate of their completion of the seminar, and many shared about how meaningful it had been to them.
Helen, our home supervisor, prepared some Filipino specialties: pancit noodles, arrozcaldo and ginataang bilo bilo. (This last is a spinach-like leaf cooked in coconut milk with sticky rice and rice gelatin.)

We played games like relay races to dress a doll while you are blindfolded, and carrying an egg – calamunsi – on a spoon in your mouth.

There was a garage sale styled give away of donated toys clothes and cloth for diapers. And each family got a receiving blanket specially prepared by ladies in the missionary community from material we were able to purchase at reduced cost.

Each family was celebrating the work that God has done in preparing them for childbirth.