Time really flies by!! I’m telling you!! School just hit the ½ way point and it feels like I got here yesterday. So let me give you a recap of what has happened in the first ½ of school…..
Daily life is hectic!! Breakfast starts at 5:30 with a bread roll and tea. We have a little quiet time before class which starts at 8. From there it doesn’t stop!! We have worship everyday for at least an hour, which is amazing!! Then a guest speaker shares for the first ½ of class, then some more worship to lead us into the second ½ of class led usually by a different speaker. Class ends at 1 where we then head to lunch which is either rice and beans or sometimes if we are lucky….beans and rice!!
After lunch we have some mandatory some optional meetings that we go to that sometimes last until dinner. There are so many different things that we have the option to be a part of during school. To morning intercession, creative dance and painting, soaking and things that they call back porches. Where the guest speakers have a more intimate meeting with people who want to hear more about their ministry or to ask them questions about anything. Those meetings can go in and out all day long!! Some days we have night classes as well.
On Fridays we have our practical mission, which is putting the things we learn in class to practical use. There are SO many things that we could choose to do, but I picked to do maintenance in the boys dorms which entails painting the playground, fixing and building beds and odds and end jobs that need to be done to improve their living areas.
I also went on outreach into the bush of Mozambique!! My group of about 20 went with Heidi and her team to a village to preach, pray and evangelize. We showed the Jesus film, prayed for the villagers, Heidi preached and I shared my testimony to hundreds of Moslem villagers!!! It was amazing to be a part of and get more experience in doing it on a bigger level. Since being there, there is a church and school being built, and a well that will be dug. Praise God!!!
I also went on a ‘drop off’, where myself and 2 other guys were dropped off with a local pastor at his home in the village to stay the night and live as he does. That was such an amazing time!! I have lived with pastors before on the World Race, but this was totally different!! With in 5 minutes of walking in the door, my friend Jonas was cutting the head off of a duck that we later had for dinner. It was so funny!!! The pastor treated us like kings. We slept outside, upon our request, to fall asleep staring into the sky and millions of starts!! He fed us 5 meals in a 18 hour time period which were delicious!!! Then on Sunday we went to church in the village. There was no English, so the 4 hour long service was a BIT long, but we loved it anyway and were very blessed to be there.
The first ½ of school has been really good. We have been blessed with so many world renound speakers to come and teach us such as Steve Long, Amy Lancaster and Heidi and Rolland Baker. I’ve learned a lot and can’t wait to get back to Malawi so I can apply everything!!!
