Soccer Sunday
Sorry for the 'late' post (it's well past midnite here), but we've had another amazing day. I know we keep saying that, but there's no other way to describe it. This morning we went back to church to experience a 'real' African service (last week they had no power for their instruments).
This week was loud and long...2 hours and fourty minutes to be exact, and Scott only preached for 25 of them. It was a powerful service that had many of us in tears. Here were some of the highlights:
- One lady had a dream about our group last night. In it, she saw our team taking an exam (school kids are presently doing their term exams here) and she heard God say to the group, "You have passed the test!". That was an encouragement to our team.
- One young girl got up to sing a duet with another girl and she told the story of how she lost her only pair of shoes. At first she was worried about it, but then she said, "God, even if I don't have shoes I'm going to praise you". And you should see her praise and dance before God...amazing! After she said that, a lady in the congregation stood up and said that she had just bought a pair of shoes for her daughter yesterday that were the wrong size and this girl could have them. The church jumped up and praised God...so neat to see the church community in action!
- Singing worship songs with the people while knowing some of their stories is a very humbling experience....these people love God and prove that Jesus is enough even in the midst of extreme difficulties.
Our 'Championship Soccer match' took place right after our group photo.
We were able to go and play on a real field and give the kids real soccer jerseys that someone from our church donated. Brad made a great trophy and despite stellar goaltending by Jon Imbeau, the Namibians won the hour long soccer game 4-2. You should have seen the kids go wild...it was so fun!
Tonight we are doing our last 'group time' with the kids to say goodbye as they will be leaving for school at 6:30am on Monday. Anticipating a tough night for our team....we'll fill you in on the details tomorrow morning before we pack up and leave for Okahandja.
We'll leave you with our group picture from today with everyone from the Ark.
3 Comments:
I clicked on "larger version" to see the group photo better but still couldn't make out your faces amidst my tears of joy!!!! What a pleasure it was to see your smiles with those precious children.
God Bless you all!!!!!! Love Linda Morgan
Thrilled to hear what God is doing among and in and through you. Look forward to having you back here and touching our church with what the Spirit has been doing there! Ross
Great pictures of the service and the soccer game, too. Stephen, Reid doesn't think you were trying very hard. " Hi" to Taryn! God bless on you all on your journies home.
Dad
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