Yesterday was a full day! We started our day by saying goodbye to the YWAM Orlando team. This team was in vase for about a month, went to Mozambique, and then came back for three days. These were some hard working young people with big hearts for Jesus! I will most definitely miss the love and compassion of this group!
Next, we went to one of our team members home to fix the roof for his mom. She has had a stroke and is blind in one eye. The roof had 13 cracks! This is the rainy season and I'm telling you we've had some gulley washing, frog strangling rains! This poor woman needed her roof fixed. So, off we went, all 11 of to do whatever needed done!
The guys in the group headed up onto the roof and started working at getting it clean and prepared to fix. We ladies started cleaning the house, hoeing the garden, weeding the garden, washing some clothes, and cleaning up the yard. We also gave mamma Ronny a massage! She informed us she wasn't tired but we continued to treat her like a queen, and truth be told, she loved it!
Sifiso and Mzwandile fixed lunch for us which was beef curry stew and pap (pop). It's spelled pap but its pronounced pop. For us southerners, it's a lot like grits only really thick. Anyway! The fun came when we realized that we were going to eat African style...no spoons or forks! You eat with your hands! Now at first I was a little unsure about this, as I had never done it. However, I asked for some help and hints from Ronny, he explained what to do and, if I say so myself, I did pretty good at.
With lunch in our bellies, the house clean, the garden hoe'd, and the roof fixed, we said our goodbyes and headed for the feeding in Dwaleni. This is where we were face with a challenges!
Dwaleni is a community where there are many orphaned and vulnerable children. We feed approximately 300 children there weekly. These children are pretty much left to their vices to survive and when at the feedings it shows. These children can be rough and rowdy on a good day, but some days, rough and rowdy can turn into violent and hard to handle very quickly! Yesterday was just such a day. We tried out very best to keep order amidst the chaos, but it was extremely difficult. This community and these children need your prayers! The ladies who volunteer here need your prayers. They see the need and want to fill it, but they get weary in well doing. They need encouragement. Please pray for....Sophie, Joyce, Liz, Felicia, Rebekah....pray that God will give them the desires of their hearts for these children and that they won't get weary in well doing. Pray that while they are filling up the bellies of these children, that God will provide for their families.
Even on days like this....when the task seems too big, the children are being hard, and the food runs out....you will find that one sweet face that looks up into yours and starts to sing a song you taught him a month ago. A song that says My God is so BIG so STRONG and so MIGHTY there's NOTHING MY GOD CAN NOT DO! And you think to yourself "this is why I'm here. If I don't get anything else down in their hearts but that, then it's a good day." Because my God is so BIG so STRONG and so MIGHTY there's NOTHING my GOD CAN NOT DO! THAT'S TRUE!!
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