Moon Festival

The Vietnamese celebrated the Moon Festival from Sept 15 to the 22nd.  It is a time when the harvest is over and they visit family to celebrate.  Someone came up with the idea of making moon cakes, they are round and some have beans in them and well others I am not sure what they have in them..  I tried some but I think it is an acquired taste.  Well two weeks ago a friend who works with street children and teen girls was going around taking names of kids who live on the streets and in the slums to give them a gift for this holiday.  She wanted to bless them and give them something special, the moon cakes were perfect because they are too expensive for them to buy themselves.  She got around 500 names and donations from many and then had a friend make the cakes.  She also bought a carton of milk for them. I was able to go with her on one of her trips to distribute these cakes.  We left around 4 in the afternoon and were suppose to meet around the kids in the park.  We had her cousin and another gal along to help.  As we started to give them out, she started with the names she had gathered, children between 1 and 15 years old, we started drawing a crowd, everyone wanted to have one and she did give a couple to one older very thin lady and some kids whose names she did not have but it was all done in orderly fashion and the kids were so excited. They seem to come in waves.  After finishing at the park we rode over to an empty sidewalk across the street from a family who she helps.  This time we had another 30 or so and many who just wanted to see what was happening.  After calling there names and giving out the cakes she had these paper laterns to give out, she only had 10 of those left from a previous celebration so we waited until most had gone before giving them out.  Finally after several hours we still had some cakes left so as we rode down the rode for home we found some more street kids to give the rest out to.  These were from Cambodia and were so excited to get them.  It was such a blessing for me to be able to go and see these kids, God was sure right when He said give and you shall receive, I received so much joy and love from these little ones. He said," I was hungary and you fed me".