Faithful Friday

The teams that have worked on construction up until this point has complained of fatigue and sore muscles, so this team (Suzy, Stephanie, Mary and Richard) was prepared for a day of hard labor. The first few pulls on the brick machine were tough but manageable. Then as the day progressed, it took more and more people to pull the lever to make the brick or pop the brick out. Again, we were throughly impressed with the efficiency of the team. This team won over the "brick chicks". Before this team, the brick chicks have been reserved, but we were so impressed with their skills of carrying water and the bricks on their head. We took video of the bricks chicks dancing with the bricks on their heads and showed them, and they loved it. However, we don't doubt that they laughed at us and our lack of skills at making bricks. What can we do, we tried.

George the machine working hard

On prayer walking (Kelley, Will and Tucker) had some pretty amazing and unique experiences. One of the families they prayed with, the care giver and the sister, accepted Christ and WIll got to pray over them. The team went into the market and purchased some fabric for Dorothy who had accepted Christ with the you team, as she is trying to find alternative income so that she can quit her job at the bar as she knows that it's not right for her to be there. Also, while at the market, the team bought some basic grocery staples for families who were dyer need such as the family who's dad lost his job that week. Once again, the prayer walking team had their little groupies following them through the village until James told them to scatter. The team also got to stop by Jame's wife's bakery.

Brandon and Scott went to the school and were able to sit in on some life skills education with the standard 5 and 6 classes. Steve, the school head master, educated the kids on preventing malaria by keeping grass around the house low, emptying pots that may have water and using nets to sleep. Then they proceeded to educate the children about STD's. After school, Brandon and Scott met up with Felix (our server from the Kuka Lodge, who teaches in Kauma). Felix took the guys back to his house, met his fiance and gave Felix marriage advice at his request. As well, they presented to Felix a collection of money that the team put together as a wedding gift as he is to be married on August 8th. He was very appreciative.

After lunch, we had a full schedule of activities for the kids. Well maybe not a full schedule, but it took up the entire time. After a few songs of worship, Scott led bible study and he told about Joshua, including the back story of Moses and the Israelites, and he became the leader over them to carry them into the promise land. He did a amazing job of tying it all back to trusting God and taking down walls of trust and sin. He was a natural.

After bible story, awana leaders led the kids in more worship while we painted their faces. We started off by giving the kids 6 different things to choose from. Then, as we noticed it was taking forever, Steve insisted that we only do a cross or a heart. Then we realized that the kids were rubbing off the paintings and coming back for another. In all there was probably 100 kids, but we probably painted 160 kids. Oh well, it was totally worth it. We wouldn't change a thing, okay maybe we would, less choices :)

After the program we went to the soccer...ahem I mean football field to let Scott and Brandon say good-bye to the kids as they would be leaving on Sunday and would not be back to Adziwa. The children said good bye with a song and promised to watch over Kelley for Brandon.

Once the kids were sent home, we went back to the adziwa offices to sort through the donations and bag them so that they could be distributed to the community. It was amazing to see how many families were going to benefit from the donations of our family and friends.

At night, we have taken up a nasty habit. After dinner, we sit around and play what we refer to as "Take' em" I am sure you have probably heard of this game know as something else. Basically you try and get rid of your cards by saying, I have 2 fours and laying them down face down. If someone thinks they are lying, they say take'em. If they are lying they have to pick up the whole stack. If they aren't lying, then the person who called them out, picks up the cards. We have great laughs over Tucker's inability to lie and how people get called out.