Hi there!! 🙂 So it was a long, eventful adventure getting to our ministry site involving everything from roaming the outside of the South African airport looking for our ride for a good 40 minutes or so (whose phone was dead, and had a rough description of us, as if we didn’t stand out enough with our giant hiking backpacks), stopping and eating at some place called “Steers” in a gas station for lunch which was like a BBQ cheeseburger thing, place which actually wasn’t half bad, I dare say it, good?? Gas station food good?? Woah. Also along the adventure a guy jumped in our trailer while we were driving through a town trying to steal our bags and our van drivers jumping out and throwing some good ole fashion justice his direction in the form of a Nacho Libre soaring eagle attack move and tackling him then throwing a few hands his way, intense.
We got to a ministry site that evening that another team was going to be working at called “Beacon of Hope” which is an amazing organization dedicated to making strong Christian men out of young guys that came and found refuge there after school or over the summer or whenever. (Super cool organization, would have loved working there but God has a plan for everything!!) We camped there one night then the next day left for our site, and spent Saturday and Sunday at a half way point at a pastors house. We attended church that Sunday under some wooden posts, two walls and a tin roof in the rain (It’s funny how I find church services like that the most fun and fulfilling, everyone is just so happy and dancing around having a great time worshiping the big man upstairs!!). We got the opportunity to pray physical, mental and emotional healing over people that volunteered to come up and receive it.
That night the floods hit… okay maybe I’m being a little dramatic, BUT that being said, some people’s tents were legit waterbeds (Which is great right?! They didn’t think so) I ended up on the high ground for my tent so I ended up not flooding as badly. The people’s tents who did flood though had water up to like mid shin though!! CRAZYYYYYYYYY (Insert song quote about the rains in Africa).
The next morning we packed up and headed for our ministry site called “Africa em Fogo” which is Portuguese for “Africa on Fire”. Their focus is on the children of this area in Chibuto and feeding them in and providing a place of refuge with a solid Christian base away from the voodoo culture that is so prominent around here. They’re in the process right now of building a small community consisting of a school, orphanage, church, clinic, a mini farm with chickens, turkeys pigs and one white vulture (What??) and many more areas dedicated to buildings out here on a plot of land in the African bush. So far it’s been like crazy stormy with super strong winds and rain so we haven’t been able to do much. So as I sit here in our bamboo house in my tent, I’ve never been more thankful for a fortress and place to lay my head, even if I smell like death and am having to fend off these crazy whip scorpions and everything else.
1/17/2017
We’ll see when I get WIFI to post this, but for now, everyone stay pretty, I love you all!!
– Leviticus Ferrell
