Sunday Worship!

Today we were honoured to be able to attend a church here in the rural area that was started by Dr. Blessman who has his own ministry outreach and partners with Reaching a Generation on various projects.  This church was at one of the schools that I was able to be at last year with Centershot.  It was an amazing drive to church to see how the Blessman’s and their extended family assist to pick up so many people for church.  All along the highway to the school were families or just kids dressed in their Sunday best waiting for a ride to church.  

We had the privilege to meet Sarah who was in charge of the children’s church and we were able to assist her and her helpers to run the children’s church program this morning.  There was about 30 kids that attended all dressed beautifully with their best cloths I’m sure.  These kids are all so loving and make you feel so welcome as they run to give you hugs and climb on your back or touch your hair (if you have any).  It was fun to just love these kids and help them to participate in the songs, crafts, and Bible stories.  Crystelle was even able to assist by reading a Bible story to them as they all sat in a circle and listened intently.  

It was a certainly a different style of worship in the main service for the portion we were apart of but you could see the love these people have for the Lord as they sang and danced and even pulled a few members of our family into the aisles and to the front to join in the praise (I won’t mention any names of church staff or children of mine that may have danced).

After the service we were thanked by so many people and we thanked them for the opportunity to be a part of their church today.  We certainly felt welcomed!  I’m not sure how many people actually were there this morning but we know that we assisted them in breaking 100 people at their church for the very first time since it started just a few months ago.

When we returned from church we were hoping to hear some good news that Terrace’s impala was found, but still no good news.  They still assured us that they would keep looking and after reviewing the video again today, with a frame by frame option, we had a little more hope again as the shot looked good.  We would just have to wait and see when they could look again on Monday morning.

The rest of the day was spent relaxing and spending some time together while we anticipate the the rest of the Centershot team arriving tonight.  It will be exciting to meet everyone and renew some past friendships as well as make some new ones.  In the meantime we had a wonderful supper with Jacques and Lizzy.  We were able to discuss some of our thoughts about our future and if that might include RaG.  At this point we don’t know but it was good to hear advice from Jacques and Lizzy about what things should be important in our search.  We talked about RaG and their desire to always have good people joining them.  We also discussed the importance of ‘“values” and making sure that your values and a missions values are the same.  It was good to start dream about what we are looking for and Jacques has done well to help us try to identify what it is we may envision.  We are far from knowing at this point but we see how God has been taking us on this journey and teaching us to trust Him in each “next step”.  Just seems these steps keep getting bigger!

Later in the evening it was great to see the vehicles pulling in with the team!  We greeted everyone and it was fun to see the excitement in all of them that we felt arriving a few days ago and that I felt last year when I first arrived at Shikwaru.  We really look forward to working together with everyone.  I’m anticipating great things through the upcoming archery ministry this week.