Thursday Feb 17
We had a physical work out on Thursday. We are building a new playground at Dalton Bridge School. The school has a broken down slide and swing set that are not only broken down but also way too small for the older kids. This playground will have three slides as well as a couple of climbing ladders. The men dug 13 footings while the ladies did a skit at the school for the kids and then went on to deliver some food and do hut to hut ministry. Bevie was able to visit the blind fellow she led to the Lord last year. He told her he had a dream that she was coming to see him and that there would be a party. It was emotional times for all that were there as he was so excited to receive a Proclaimer from her. With this device he can listen to the bible in Zulu. He indicated he wants to be one of the people being baptized on Sunday in the Bushman River. They use the school building to hold Sunday service and the team plans to be part of it and the baptisms afterward. After they came back to the school we began the laborious process of setting the brackets in cement. It was a lot of work mixing the cement by hand on a big sheet of plastic under the hot African sun. Suzanne and Rachel jumped in to help with the cement which old man Ritch a break. Thank you girls! We all were totally wiped out from the emotion, sun and hard work and our showers felt sooo good. A few hours and a wonderful dinner later we were off to bible study and prayer at the “home cells”. Essentially these are like our life groups. These people are so gracious and open hearted with the “American visitors”. It was a long but very rewarding day.
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We had a physical work out on Thursday. We are building a new playground at Dalton Bridge School. The school has a broken down slide and swing set that are not only broken down but also way too small for the older kids. This playground will have three slides as well as a couple of climbing ladders. The men dug 13 footings while the ladies did a skit at the school for the kids and then went on to deliver some food and do hut to hut ministry. Bevie was able to visit the blind fellow she led to the Lord last year. He told her he had a dream that she was coming to see him and that there would be a party. It was emotional times for all that were there as he was so excited to receive a Proclaimer from her. With this device he can listen to the bible in Zulu. He indicated he wants to be one of the people being baptized on Sunday in the Bushman River. They use the school building to hold Sunday service and the team plans to be part of it and the baptisms afterward. After they came back to the school we began the laborious process of setting the brackets in cement. It was a lot of work mixing the cement by hand on a big sheet of plastic under the hot African sun. Suzanne and Rachel jumped in to help with the cement which old man Ritch a break. Thank you girls! We all were totally wiped out from the emotion, sun and hard work and our showers felt sooo good. A few hours and a wonderful dinner later we were off to bible study and prayer at the “home cells”. Essentially these are like our life groups. These people are so gracious and open hearted with the “American visitors”. It was a long but very rewarding day.
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