We were in a village deep in the mountains in Taiwan, nearly an hour away from any sort of real city or town. Most of our work was towards spending time with the children and simply spreading good faith. We did things like tie dying T-Shirts, face painting, water balloon tosses, and just playing games with the kids and spending time with them.

While in the village, there were a number of elderly people who were in declining health. In the second picture you see Father Vincent, the organizer of our trip, anointing an elderly woman. We visited all of the elders in the village in our evenings spent there, and we also sung hymns to them as a group. Those who were anointed seemed to be comforted by their time with us, and it was rewarding to see them with smiles on their faces.

In the third and fourth pictures, we were at an orphanage on the outskirts of the city of Taipei, Taiwan. These children are cared for by care takers throughout the day, but their caretakers change fairly often and the boys in the orphanage have few older males to spend time with. So we did many of the same activities with the children in the orphanage that we did with the children in the village like tie dying shirts, face painting, and just playing and spending time with the kids in general for hours each day. The children all loved piggie back rides, and as seen in the fourth picture, they also loved learning to play soccer and other sports.

In the last picture I sent, we were at an orphanage in Beijing, China. This orphanage was very clean and had an excellent staff to care for the children, which was required because the majority of their children are ones with disabilities or birth defects. We primarily worked with the babies at this orphanage because they required the most work, and the caretakers were relieved to have some extra helping hands. We held the babies and rocked them to sleep, played with them, fed them, changed them, and just gave them constant nurturing that they aren't always able to receive. The child that I am feeding in this picture had a condition where his intestines had to be in a bag on the outside of his body, and his bodily waste came out in the bag as well. It was hard to see, but it was also a beautiful thing being able to make children even in their condition smile and laugh.