I am sorry that it has been so long since I have updated everyone. We have been in Africa for about 6 weeks now and my team was in Botswana for the first month working with Fly Missions. We visited orphan feeding programs and put our painting skills to work again in an apartment. That month was about building unity in our team and learning about our spiritual gifts.
Unity was something that we had to work on every day. Where we were staying there were two little plastic kids tables with 6 tiniy little chairs and at the end of every day we would sit down for dinner at the tiny tike’s table and talk about the things that annoyed us or frustrated us about that days events. Sometimes we just needed to establish our team norms like; when your done with your dishes wash them and don’t leave hair in the bathtub. So we’ve started becoming a family and we are starting to prefer each other.
Twards mid month in Botswana we started to pray about going to Zimbabwe. Several members of our team have heard from the Lord that we are supposed to go there we just didn’t know what time. We had a contact and almost everything set up but not enough set up to enter the country safely because of the amount of unrest they are experiencing right now. So after all that planning and the Lord clearly closing that door for right now we are on a ATL ( ask the Lord ) road trip right now. The Lord told us to go to Namibia and here we are. He didn’t tell us how long and He didn’t tell us what we would be doing. We just take every day one at a time. So right now I am in Windhoek, Namibia staying at a backpackers hostel called “The Cardboard Box” and I don’t know how long we will be here.
Since we have been in Windhoek we have gone to the Park downtown to do a little bit of a prayer walk and I met a woman there that I will call Mary and I have had a couple conversations with her and hope I get to have lunch with her before we have to go.
Mary has an amazing story. She was born in Germany in 1975 and when she turned 15 in 1990 her and her family were forced to come back to Namibia ( her family is originally from Namibia) after the war ended. Her dad died when she was young and she is an only child so it was just her and her mom growing up. When she was old enough she started to work so she could put herself through school. She would still like to finish school but she hasn’t been able to . She got a education certificate and started to work in the tourism industry and has been for several years now until the company she was working for started to go bankrupt and they didn’t have money to pay her anymore so now she comes to the park every time she has free time and thinks while she waits for interviews to call her back so she can start working again and take care of her 6 year old son. We just sat in the park and talked for a long while and she let me pray for her. I don’t know what is going to come of our friendship only the Lord knows…
Thank you all for all your prayers and support.
