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| 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. :-) |
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| 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.
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| The children listened attentively as the team told the story of Christ's death in drama. |
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| At first the children are a little bit skeptical of us. |
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| Brooke is teaching the children the game of duck, duck, goose. |
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| Brooke is all smiles....she will be with us for 10 weeks! |
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| Deb and Simone are acting out the story. Look at the thorns we found to use as the crown Jesus wore on the cross! |
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| Children babysitting children. |
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| It is kind of hard to run in a capalana! |
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| Pastor Jon waits for his turn to run. |
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| Sure enough, someone chooses him and off he goes. |
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| Now its his turn to run. But I will let you in on a secret....he biffed it pretty bad going around the corner! |
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| The parents listened along with children. It was a fun morning for everyone. |
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| The children followed Pastor Jon carrying the cross around the mud church. |
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| Simone and Pastor Jon were pretty animated story tellers. |
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| Drums are always part of the singing and dancing. |
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| 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! |
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| 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. :-) |
