The past few days, everytime we have tried to get internet in town, the connection has been down. I’ve written these parts over the past couple of days.
Monday
Things have been going great the past couple of days. First off, Mrs. Chambers hosted a woman’s conference at the church. 50 women came out for that (some rode in the back of a maize truck for 5 hours overnight to get there).
Saturday night, we lost the clutch in the truck. The landlord, who is an atheist, volunteered his van so that we could get our whole team to church on Sunday. Bruce (the landlord) has been very anti-Christian in the past, so it was a shock when he volunteered his van without us even asking him for it. He allowed us to use it today as well.
The message went well on Sunday. I spoke from 1 John 3 & 4…about Christ’s love for us and his command to love one another. On Sunday, three people accepted Christ as their Savior!
Today, we started running our day camps for the children around the school. We are running two camps each day…one for the children who go to school in the morning and one for children who go to school in the afternoon. The first game we played was a version of dodgeball (surprise attack for all you camp people today). It took the children a little while to grasp the concept, but after they did, they had a lot of fun. Then we also did a trust walk relay. Lucy, one of our translators is doing a great job debriefing the activities. The kids have been very response to the teachings. Today’s verse was Proverbs 3:5-Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Tuesday
We played dead monkey tag (we had to adapt dead ant tag due to skirts). We had more than 75 children in the morning session and we more than 50 children in the afternoon.
Wednesday
We’re playing capture the flag today. We had a good turnout this morning as well. Derreck, one of our translators did the teaching today. Part of these camps is getting our translators used to teaching/debriefing again. They were trained by the Twin Lakes Camp staff in the summer of ’05, so it’s been awhile for them.
We’re making preparations to get ready to go to the bush today and Thursday. Hopefully, the truck we rented gets to us on time. We’ll be out there for 13 days. After we leave the bush, we will be heading to Livingstone for 2 days. Hopefully there we will find good enough internet to upload some pictures and send out proper messages. Right now, we cannot load many pages here. Don’t expect another update until after then. But don’t worry, Mrs. Chambers is taking good care of us and making sure we are eating our vegetables
Prayer requests:
-That children continue to come and are receptive to the gospel
-that we remember everything we need to take to the bush
-the 2nd weekend we’re in the bush, we have been invited to the chief’s “palace” to show the Jesus video to him and the leadership of the village
-that we find proper equipment to put tension on the aircraft cable, so we can form tight-ropes between trees
-our goal is to set up the camp and the ropes course within a week, so we can start running camps the second week we are in the bush.
-The team is getting healthier and should all be completely recovered by Friday.
-that we bond well with the translators going out with us. One in particular, is not saved, but has been asking many questions
-we still have a lot of training to do once we get to the bush as well before we get started.
With love,
Josh and Caleb
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