There has been a great pressure in trying to figure out what to say in this blog post… I have felt this pressure because I want to share everything with you all.
It is hard when I realize that I simply can’t share every little detail about it as though you all were right here with me. Which is what I want to do.
I feel like writing a thousand blog posts about every aspect, physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional, as well as the relational aspects.
But I can’t, so I will settle for what my day today looks like.
Every morning I seem to wake up naturally around 5:00 am. I just recently slept in until 6:00 am. (Woo who – sleep cycles!)
I may decide to take a shower depending on LNSC. (lasts night’s sweat count)
I feel used to the constant sweating seeing as Alabama has that same attraction to offer it’s inhabitants.
I am blessed to be in the open area of the second floor where it is cooler and not in a room. We also have fans going in the room, and this morning I woke up and I had not sweated! (I recently have gone back to edit this blog and you’ll be happy to know that I have not stopped sweating today. Okay, resume the narrative.)
Thank you, Jesus, for that night of rest.
Then after showering or spending some time to talk with the Lord, I will head downstairs to breakfast. In the small kitchen area, I pass some people filling up water bottles from a jug and walk into the open area where we have our breakfast every weekday morning at 6:30 am. After eating a meal (usually oats, yogurt, and bananas) prepared by one of our teams, our squad gathers together across the street at the bottom floor of Ezra Learning Center at 7:00 am for a devotional led by our ministry host. At 7:30 we end with team prayer and go our separate ways. There are six teams and each is at a different site. Three teams teach at three different schools and one team goes to a hospital and works at a library and local cafe. The lone all guys team is working on repairing a local church, and we have one all girls team in charge of purchasing food from the market and cooking all the meals for about 60 people every day three times a day. (I don’t want their ministry to seem easy or less because it is not. Cooking for 60 people is an ordeal!)
I am on the teaching team for Ezra Learning Center, and my team teaches three classes a day. We have 8 am, 4 pm, and 5:10 pm classes. The last two classes are broken up into smaller groups since we have around 50 kids for the 4 o’clock class and 80 kids for the 5 o’clock. The time spent in between those classes is for planning, squad lunch and quiet time, as well as playing lots of soccer before classes start.
At 6:00 pm classes end and we may debrief teaching or just dance party……..
6:30 pm is dinner and at 7:30 pm we have team time. After team time we are free until 9:00 pm when the doors to our house shut. We are usually getting ready for bed at that time any way.
So my day comes to an end. I can’t believe I will be here for 3 months. I am still adjusting to this new home and would appreciate your prayers as I find my footing in the Lord here.
He is my home wherever and I am learning what that means.
“Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, ‘He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.'”
Psalm 91:1-2
~Victoria Schafer~
