More from the team!

Hey friends & family this is Nicole. Just wanted to give you a little update on what we have been up to the past few days. On Monday we got to harvest corn. I love food so I was really looking forward to harvesting & eating the corn. Harvesting corn is a lot more work than I thought it was going to be, but it was fun. We first picked the corn off the field then we put it in the back of a truck where we took it to be shucked. There was a total of 17 people working on this project. A few of us shucked then it was cut into smaller pieces. Four of us then got the corn looking nice to be packaged. Cynthia sealed each corn container with saran wrap for three hours! It was quite the experience. I have a new appreciation for people that do that on a regular basis. It is a lot of work & it takes a while. Fortunately we did help out a lot, it usually takes the six of them three days to do what we did in five hours.  Bruce drove the corn to a farmers market in Durban where it is sold for about eight rand a package. I would have to say we all enjoyed eating the sweet corn.

 

 

ARMOR OF GOD

 

Sanibonani everyone! This is Jen! We are about half way into our trip and still going strong! Our days are filled with tasks to do, pb&j sandwiches, bananagrams, journaling, and playing with kids. The boys have been working on carpeting the gym and the girls have been painting the preschool. On Wednesdays, we plan a Bible lesson for the smaller kids. This week, we did the armor of God. The kids seemed to really enjoy the lesson, especially with Rory as our armor model. They rarely have crafts for the kids so we wanted to make sure they had their own armor. We made them a breastplate of righteousness and the helmet of salvation. They had a chance to decorate them however they liked. One girl put “God helps me” on her helmet of salvation and Nicole thought it said “God help me.” Good thing Nicole was wrong, that would have been really sad. We took so many pictures that day so we will attach a couple to the blog. We hope you are all doing well back in the states! We are loving it here but missing you as well!

 

 

Fundraiser and Team

 

Hello there folks! How’s it me brew? Well we’re half way through. It’s going by at a good pace, I am just dreading how fast it could come to an end. We have a lot scheduled in the next couple of weeks. We’re trying to put on a fundraiser concert for the youth in Haniville so they can raise money for a youth camp they can go to in July. We’re trying to have the youth sing and our team can do a few songs as well, although we’re not too musically talented, so that’ll be fun! We’re really hoping to get the youth involved in planning this with us so they can put it on again after we leave. We’re hoping it’ll get pulled together in time for June 19^th.

 

The team overall is doing pretty well. I really feel so blessed to be working along side these people. I get an ab workout from all the laughing we do together. Listening to each person try to learn Zulu and all of the fancy clicks is hilarious! Personally, I am learning a lot from my team. I am learning what it looks like to serve God in ways that I am not used to from my team            mates and have been challenged mentally and spiritually in places that my mind does not go. I am not looking forward to June 22^nd, when the team leaves because these 9 people have become my family. I am excited for the next couple of months at Walk in the Light, although I think it’ll be more challenging when they are not here.

 

A couple of nights ago Jen and I passed out letters to our team written by friends and family. It was so encouraging to read your kind works and prayers for us. It was a good reminder. Thank you for that. Please pray for…

            * The planning of the concert

* Bruce: He has such a heart for this ministry and I’m sure it could be draining at times.

* Continued unity as a team

* Safety and good health

   Jen working hard in the corn field

 The team having dinner
 In Pietmaritzburg at the Ghandi statue
   The elephant that we saw and got to get out of the van and take pictures with! 
 He was pretty big!!! 

 The armor of God : arts and craft day!
 Group picture of all of the young ones that come on Wednesday!
  After picking 2,500 ears of corn!!! 
 Cynthia and Dayna picking corn! 
Cale & the corn   Some of the youth

 Rory and the boy who wants to be called Rory Todd because we can't pronounce his name!

  Dayna and Cienda!    DIVAS!