Well there’s been more since Monday.
We did indeed return to the orphanage the next day and carried on with the raking of many leaves. It was our morning activity but unfortunately we did not go and play with the kids that day, so I have yet to meet them although I’m told they’re all really cute.
Guitar lessons carried on Tuesday afternoon, and I’ve since decided it to be a worthwhile investment to buy some guitar lesson resources online ready for next week and the week after – things like chords sheets and scales information. One of my tasks tomorrow is to start looking through it all to find what would work best here. Who knows, maybe I can start a guitar lessons business on the side when I get home 😛
This is me teacing Dusty, but you get the idea
Tuesday afternoon we went to a Roma community about half an hours walk away and attended their church service. The music in the church is like nothing I’ve come across before – it’s basically a keyboard with a synthesiser producing electro-type sounds but slightly different. The best we could come up to describe it as was "Gypsy music"… it is, of course, accompanied by singers and the congregation would sing along in Bulgarian. We were introduced and through our translators we shared a little about who we are, where we’ve been and a word from the Word. We then went on to be available at the front and pray for anyone who wanted and, amongst others, I was able to pray for the young pastor and his wife.
It was great to do because it’s the first time we’ve really had an active role like that in a church service since the beginning of our time in Mozambique, and I found it a really energizing time. It was such a privilege to pray for people and I was reminded how that is probably the most powerful thing we can do on the race.
On Wednesday we went back to the adult day care for more guitar playing and this time making bowls out of rolled up advertisements from Lidl. (Who knew that Lidl were out here too – my dad will be pleased, he loves Lidl :-p) Wednesday evening we went to another Roma community a short drive away and played with the kids. We did some songs, they did a song, we played some games and a couple of us shared stories again.
I shared about a time in China when God reminded me about how we should never judge people by the outside because we can be completely wrong about them, linking it in to when David was anointed to be King by Samuel. The funnest part for me was at the end when we did the hokey cokey in Bulgarian 😀
