A typical travel day on the World Race
• 9am Get on a bus for 9 hours from joberg, South Africa to Gaborone, Botswana
•6pm arrive at the Gaborone bus station, immediately get off, have a team member run to find the next bus (that’s suppose to leave at 6pm) and have it wait to load the remaining 13 other team members
• 6:30pm jump on the next bus ?? to take us across the country from Gaborone to Seronga (on the delta)
• the next 14 hours cram on the bus with locals, windows open for some breeze (no a/c), take some sleep aid and say a prayer you can fall asleep and stay asleep
• wake up at 3am to music blaring with a wide range of rap music, looking out the front window and see the bus darting through cows and donkeys occasionally hitting a few
• wake up again at 6 am and look down at your feet to find them too swollen to put your shoes back on, look around and find an empty row and elevate your feet
•9am arrive to find your ministry host waiting for you at the bus stop, greetings were exchanged and a sense of relief falls over you as you know you made it safe to your next home for the month
• 10am your ministry host explains you need to get enough food for the next 2 days because we have another 2 1/2 hour trek ahead of us into the bush of Botswana
•10am-11:30am grocery shopping: grab a little oatmeal and pb&j
•12pm get on a fairy to cross the delta and drive another 2 1/2 hours through the bush to find your home for the month
• 3 pm arrive! Time to set up your tent, eat and sleep!!
This is a brief description of what our travel looked like this month from South Africa to Botswana!
This month we are partnering with a ministry called Delta Cross. As you can see from our travel we are far out in the bush this month. This ministry focuses on reaching the unreached in the villages of Seronga. It is incredibly to be a part of a ministry that gets to share the Good News to people for the first time! We build relationships with locals and do children’s ministry in the afternoon.
Our ministry host has quickly welcomed us in like family, opening their house to us. As I miss my family and friends dearly, God continues to show me how I have family all around the world, including a Hippo (we named him Biggie) in our backyard!
