Day 9 - Monday 21st August 2017
This morning started early for me and I went and sat outside for a time of quiet reflection and to read a passage from the bible to prepare myself for the week ahead in the community. Whilst the boys went to men's prayer, the women had to get ready for family prayer (everyone at Kachele Farm) at 8am. We spoke about how we can be the beautiful feet that Jesus has asked us to be and how we can go about this within our work and the communities that we serve. Our prayer time included worship songs, reflection and thoughts for encouragement.
We then gathered as a Team back at the house and were joined by our Hosts (Prags and Dawson) as well as some of the Hands volunteers that will be with us when we travel to Maposa. We discussed the Hands Wall (the structure in which Hands model their work on) and their vision of Life Centres. I will discuss this more with the people that I meet when I get home as it is a little complicated to explain over a blog!
It was then time to go the community of Maposa. The journey was filled with nerves as well as excitement, and once we arrived, after travelling on some typical African rural roads, it was so lovely to be greeted by smiling children who recognised us from the previous week at Children's Camp.
The Maposa Care Point serves 100 children, who are the most vulnerable within the community, in which they are provided with what Hands classify as the 3 Essentials - Healthcare, Education and Food.
Quite soon after we arrived, we gathered with the care workers to introduce ourselves and to share some time of worship, bible readings and prayers. We had small group time to get to know each other better and it was so lovely to hear the Care Workers story and in my group the two Care Workers were related and it was great to see their relationship with each other and how they support each other in the work that they do to serve their community.
We then spent time playing with the children including playing duck, duck, goose (a clear favourite with these children), a group dancing song, and human tug of war!
I spent time speaking to one particular Care Workers, whose English was amazing! We both shared our stories and found out that she had a daughter that was currently studying at university and wants to be an Accountant or a Doctor when she is older.
At 3pm, we were called to share dinner with the Care Workers and we were served a healthy sized portion of small fishes, cabbage and nshima - some off us passed on the fishes and couldn't eat all our nshima! Soon after dinner it was time for us to leave to go back home, we said our 'See you tomorrow's' in a poor attempt in Bembe and all boarded the minibus.
After arriving back at the house we debriefed from the day with our Hosts and discussed the programme for the next day.
We shared dinner and were all very excited to watch Beauty and the Beast as our film for the evening, even if we were all very tired from our first day in the community!
Today has been a very emotional day for me with a lot of realisations in what the Lord is calling me to do, with very overwhelming feelings, but with the amazing support of the Hands family and my team I have felt hugely supported with them walking belong side me every step of the way. I'm looking forward to sharing lots with you all when I get back home.
We then gathered as a Team back at the house and were joined by our Hosts (Prags and Dawson) as well as some of the Hands volunteers that will be with us when we travel to Maposa. We discussed the Hands Wall (the structure in which Hands model their work on) and their vision of Life Centres. I will discuss this more with the people that I meet when I get home as it is a little complicated to explain over a blog!
It was then time to go the community of Maposa. The journey was filled with nerves as well as excitement, and once we arrived, after travelling on some typical African rural roads, it was so lovely to be greeted by smiling children who recognised us from the previous week at Children's Camp.
The Maposa Care Point serves 100 children, who are the most vulnerable within the community, in which they are provided with what Hands classify as the 3 Essentials - Healthcare, Education and Food.
Quite soon after we arrived, we gathered with the care workers to introduce ourselves and to share some time of worship, bible readings and prayers. We had small group time to get to know each other better and it was so lovely to hear the Care Workers story and in my group the two Care Workers were related and it was great to see their relationship with each other and how they support each other in the work that they do to serve their community.
We then spent time playing with the children including playing duck, duck, goose (a clear favourite with these children), a group dancing song, and human tug of war!
I spent time speaking to one particular Care Workers, whose English was amazing! We both shared our stories and found out that she had a daughter that was currently studying at university and wants to be an Accountant or a Doctor when she is older.
At 3pm, we were called to share dinner with the Care Workers and we were served a healthy sized portion of small fishes, cabbage and nshima - some off us passed on the fishes and couldn't eat all our nshima! Soon after dinner it was time for us to leave to go back home, we said our 'See you tomorrow's' in a poor attempt in Bembe and all boarded the minibus.
After arriving back at the house we debriefed from the day with our Hosts and discussed the programme for the next day.
We shared dinner and were all very excited to watch Beauty and the Beast as our film for the evening, even if we were all very tired from our first day in the community!
Today has been a very emotional day for me with a lot of realisations in what the Lord is calling me to do, with very overwhelming feelings, but with the amazing support of the Hands family and my team I have felt hugely supported with them walking belong side me every step of the way. I'm looking forward to sharing lots with you all when I get back home.
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