February 2, 2010

This is a tiring week. For class today we spent the entire morning answering the age-old tough questions about God like, “How does a good God allow evil?” “If God if just, why does He allow injustice?” “Why does God allow innocent people to suffer?”- yano simple easy questions….not. So it’s a mentally and emotionally challenging week. But the good thing is that I just had my small group and now I’m free until 4:00 for work duties- there are a lot of us just updating blogs and checking e-mails while listening to music.

February 4, 2010

It’s been a tiring week but good at the same time J Our week of classes has been…interesting…I’ll just say it wasn’t exactly what we all expected. But we did watch the Passion of the Christ last night which was a bonding time for our team I think. That is one of those movies that affects you no matter how many times you watch it. Yesterday we had some interesting experiences in the community. We went to help with a Kid’s Club in the high school in the Mbonisweni community. So we got there at like 1:05 and had to leave at 2. At 1:50 we realized we hadn’t started anything and had to leave in 10 minutes-TIA. So then we walked through the community to the Church to help with a Girl’s and Boy’s Club. We each wrote down different questions to ask the teens and then helped them to apply the ideas to their Christian walks. We actually had some really good conversations. Then this afternoon we helped with another feeding program in the community of Dwaleni. I got to help hand out drinks to the kids. Today there were about 50-60 kids that were fed. Then we played silly games and sang songs with the kids. We also had a fun little hair salon where all of us girls got some very nice braided hairstyles J It was fun to actually be able to spend time with the kids. Then tonight after dinner- one of our leaders brought us some real coffee back to the base. How long was it until we were on our way to the kitchen? Umm…about 5 minutes J And then after class we spent just a little time playing cards and laughing since we were hyped up on caffeine- fun night haha

We also found out about our outreach (last two months) here today! We will be spending the first four weeks in Zambia. We will be staying in an area around a lake so we have been told that we will even be going to a lot of places that can only be reached by boat. There are a lot of ministries that they do so we will probably get to do a lot of things but then also focus on kids a little more too. We have been told that this will be our “rural” experience- maybe sleeping in tents, eating rice and beans every day, wearing only skirts…it will be an experience that’s for sure J Then we are going to spend three weeks in Johannesburg working with a ministry that deals a lot with street children and orphans. I’m sure we will have some stories to tell afterwards haha.