Every wednesday we start the day with worship together in the class room as staff, and soon our DTS students will be joining us. This morning I was leading worship, I got a few verses and wrote them on the white board, and put on selected songs on the computer... was really nice, and God was there, which is the best.
We then gathered our people and got in the car for what we thought we be a quick 5 minute drive to a government school near our place, out of the 100 kids that come to our program on Saturdays probably 75% of them come from that school. We started off by giving two women a ride down the road, which ended up being a 30minute drive on a road not too bad for "off road" but not so good for our LOW mini van! The ladies asked us to take them all the way home since they had a 50kg bag of mili meal to carry, I thanked God we were there to give them a ride all that way. they told us to turn onto their "road" which looked like a field of grass about 5 feet high to me, with cars having gone over it a few times recently : ) I was like "are you sure we should go down this road!" Surprisingly it was not bad, like joy riding in a wheat field I suppose. After getting the ladies to their house we got on with our journey to the school.
We are wanting to do assemblies with the kids from this school, getting involved where they are, instead of only here at YWAM. We found out it is a VERY LONG WALK for many of the kids to get to school. And they have 1000 kids! The thing is, most of the kids we have met from this school cannot read, and are in grade 8 or higher. The classes are WAY TOO BIG, and alot of kids are slipping "through the cracks". Anyway it looks like we will be able to be going there maybe twice a month on wednesday afternoons.
After this we got home and found tobi, which was nice to sit and visit for a while. I was feeling sick and tired by that time. We had baked "fries" and pork chops for lunch. BY about 3pm we had to say good by to Tobi and head on into the community called Kapampa. This is where you will see some photos from today, only because we have some relationship with these people did we ask to take some photos of them. I uploaded all of the photos from this visit on our facebook.
So we walked up past the mud church with doors that dont fit the front, this is where the DTS from last year held weekly bible studies, another ministry opportunity we may take up again soon.
We got there and greated everybody, they got out their two chairs and cleaned them off for us to sit on, and we sat asking how is so and so... They always ask about tallish because she is always home napping when we go into the community in the afternoon. (With rebecca at the house). Anyway, we got to asking about going to see Gertrudes house again, Gertrude is a widow, who is a tiny tiny women, who lives in a mud house she built with her daughter, 2 meters high, and 3 meters long, and 2 meters wide. SMALL, too small even for a bed. She sleeps on the ground with a small rag tag blanket. And has different things making up her roof, i.e. A sheet of metal that was a oil barrow... Etc. We measured her house for a new roof, we will be putting up for her.
After doing measurements we went back and found more people had gathered. A lady was just leaving telling a story about her little 2 year old girl, who was very sick, fever of 40C, that wouldn't come down with tylenol. The baby tested negative for malaria, and yet they treated her for malaria, not looking for anything else wrong... She was still sick after the first course of treatment, the mom took her back and they gave her the STRONGEST malaria meds there are here, and after those she is even more sick.... The mom did know what to do, we gave her tips on how to physically keep the fever down, and also prayed for the girl of course, she left right after. Going to her brothers place, because apparently right now her husband is threatening to kill her. She is a second wife of this man, and beaten regularly. It made me so sad to watch her walk away with so much pain, and trouble in her life, not to mention poverty.
After they left we talked for a while with the family, prayed for their concerns, and left for the day.
We stopped by a “shop” for a coke, we warned them on the way there we would want the cokes because they have to walk a ways to get them out of someones fridge down the road :) haha!
So we got there and we got our cokes within 8 minutes : ) We love stopping here, it is a little shop run by a young couple, with kids almost the same age as ours, and the girl is even 4 months prego like me : ) Although she gets embarrassed when I point out that she is pregnant :) oh well. I sat on the ground, vinj sat in the wheel barrow and seth wanted to sit in the wheel barrow : ) and talked with people who passed by, and with the two girls there.
A good day.
We ended the day by watching UP with the kids, vinj had never seen it, and it is SO GOOD!
Bathed the kids, put them to bed, and now am here.
Ready for bed.
Goodnight world.
