Team 2 has arrived (Mark on Monday, Julie, Chris and Tony on Tuesday) and we have spent the first week making connections with the kids at the mission. Mark and Chris got to meet their prayer buddies, Mark and Prince Sumo (specific kids they have been praying for for over a year) and Tony and Julie are on return visits to Children's Rescue Center.
Highlights of the first week have included:
- Sis D's cooking
- Learning how to make peanut candy with Sis Patience.
- A working well (water) pump AND generator
- Spending a lot of time with the kids down at the mission - singing with them, reading with them, talking about the Bible with them, and just loving and affirming them.
- Friday's trip to the beach - an incentive for those who met their reading program goals.
- An early morning 3+ mile (round-trip) excursion to cut and fetch wood with some of the boys from the mission.
- Praying for a group of students before taking their entrance exams for the 10th grade (King's Arms Academy ends at grade 9).
- Laughing lots with Brother John, Mitchell, Daniel, and Isaac.
- Seeing the Lord answer prayers and reveal Himself in so many big and small ways.
Next week includes, among other things: church tomorrow (Sunday), planning our (student-led) outreach at Peter Sayklon's (another orphanage further out in the bush) - the outreach itself will be Wednesday, a annual soccer game between the two "clubs" at the mission, a field day with the kids, movie night, and more time using our actions and words to express to these kids how much God loves and cares for them.
We appreciate your prayers for us and for the next week as we are already almost half-way done. Hopefully another update can be made. Either way your prayers mean so much!
Love,
Team 2
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