Month 7 is
coming to a close. We have spent this month so far in Beira, Mozambique with
Unchained Rhythm and Family Force Six at Kedesh Boys home. We basically live in a tree house, surrounded
by chickens, ducks, cats, dogs, chameleons, big komodo dragons, snakes, goats,
mango trees, lime trees, coconut trees, cashew trees, and a forest with the
best tree climbing trees any boy could ever ask for.
This month
has been an amazing month of ministry. I
have grown so close to the boys and my heart is going to break when Nathan and
I leave tomorrow to head to Maputo to be with two other teams. We have been able to spend the month
investing in the boys, showing them Christ, playing with them and nurturing them. Its also been such an amazing month pouring
into the two teams here and really becoming their friends and being able to
speak into their lives.
I made a
list this morning in my journal of the things I am going to miss about this
place:
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Sitting in our hammocks and swinging with the
boys
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Climbing trees (trying not to touch the ground
once and making it all around)- the boys jump from limb to limb and climb
effortlessly, its ridiculously awesome
·
Epic water fights around the whole property
·
Movie nights
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Watching lost
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Eating homemade popcorn every night
·
Having one of the boys Luca feed me b/c he
thinks its funny
·
Watching the boys be chased by their dog and
tackled
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Watching the goats (in particular one named
Billy who is so nice)
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Being beat up (in a loving way) by the boys
·
Giving piggy back rides
·
Getting my hair braided and it being pulled so
tight I thought my scalp was going to bleed
·
Having the boys fall asleep on your lap
·
Being woken up every morning at 5am to the
loudest music ever
·
Watching African sunsets from the top of the
water tower
·
The nasty malaria, snake, leech infested cest
pool that we swam in and had so much fun
·
The matachanias (the worms that lay larvae in
your foot and you have to dig the egg sack out)
·
Walking 10 minutes to the well to get water to
shower/ flush the toilette
·
Taking baths (with clothes on) at the well so
that we don’t have to carry the water back
·
Frisbee golf through the forest and tall grass
and swamps
·
Playing ultimate Frisbee in the pouring down
pour rain
·
Playing volleyball
·
Letting the boys use my camera and it coming
back with hundreds of random pictures
·
Eating Oatmeal everyday for breakfast, rice and
beans everyday for lunch, and rice and cabbage everyday for dinner
·
Finding kittens in the woods and taking them in
·
Sharing a bathroom with 26 people… not being
able to flush all the time so everyone pooping on everyone’s poop hahaha
·
Sleeping under hot mosquitos nets but some how
still getting eaten alive
·
Africa church services in a hot mud hut with a
grass roof, no electricity, only one drum too keep the beat, lots of dancing
and everyone praising the Lord and dancing freely in His presence
This place has touched my heart. I am going to miss these boys so much. God has revealed so much to me this month
about His Love and faithfulness to his children.
