Team Powell in Action!

Having our team from Powell has been wonderful.
Pastor Jon took the opportunity to baptize two
of our team members, Deb and her daughter
Kassandra in this African river. They had never
been immersed before so Sunday they were
immersed in what turned out to be fairly shallow water!
Glad there weren't any crocodiles to join us. :-)

Today we went to two different church plants, Mutondo and

Nharutuzo out in the bush. We drove over 200 kilometers of

chuck holes, bumps, dips and sandy roads before our day ended.

The children listened attentively as the team told the
story of Christ's death in drama.

At first the children are a little bit
skeptical of us.

Brooke is teaching the children the game of duck, duck, goose.

Brooke is all smiles....she will be with us for 10 weeks!

Deb and Simone are acting out the story.  Look at the thorns
we found to use as the crown Jesus wore on the cross!

Children babysitting children.

It is kind of hard to run in a capalana!

Pastor Jon waits for his turn to run.

Sure enough, someone chooses him and off he goes.

Now its his turn to run.  But I will let you in on a secret....he
biffed it pretty bad going around the corner!

The parents listened along with children.
It was a fun morning for everyone.

The children followed Pastor Jon carrying the cross around
the mud church.

Simone and Pastor Jon were pretty animated story tellers.

Drums are always part of the singing
and dancing.

The children received a cookie, sucker, balloon, coloring
book written in Portuguese with the salvation message and
some color crayons.  What was amazing is that the parents
wanted their own coloring book and crayons too!

The church plant leader invited us to lunch. They killed the
chicken, plucked its feathers and before we knew it, a big
bowl of rice joined it on the table. Deb, Max, Brooke are on
the left, Simone is in the center and Winston and Jon are on
the right. The rest of the team is at the other church plant.
We are eating in the fellowship hall of the church. :-)