Yesterday was one of those days when I wished I hadn’t forgotten my camera at home. But even if I had taken pictures, I don’t think it quite would have captured what I wanted it to. So, these were some “pictures” I took yesterday…hopefully if I write them down then it will remember them!
- A picture of me, waking up VERY alert at 5am in the morning because I heard Joel and Annie talking and the lights going on and off…hearing them be up and down again…I was sure Annie was going to give birth! But, after I heard them really go back to sleep at around 5:30 I knew I must have been wrong. At that point I was wide awake, so I got up a bit earlier than expected! (Later I found out that Joella was sick and they were trying to decide what to do J)
- Pictures of the children’s ministry! Oh my, yesterday was a great day!!
o A picture of Queen, me, and 3 other volunteers going over what the program would be for that day. Trying to explain this crazy game called “rock, paper, scissors”…except it was even crazier because it had been modified to play as “pinky, knee, toe.” Yes, we successfully finally communicated how to play not only “pinky, knee, toe” but also thumb wrestling! (It is really easy to beat someone in thumb wrestling when they don’t know how to play!!)
o A picture of the 100 some odd kids trying to all fit in this little room to hear the Bible story…and a picture of the flannelgraph we were trying to use. One of the rocks we were trying to use to make land was up in the sky, part of Lazarus’ tomb kept falling off…but hey, it was still a visual!!
o A picture of trying to split these kids into three groups and then me trying to communicate with everyone to rotate every 20 minutes to their new station.
§ A picture of these kids all trying to move at the same time to a different room, because one of our normal rooms was full of the sewing ministry things so we had to use outside as our third space…which meant the KIDS had to rotate instead of the teachers rotating like our original plan!
o A picture of these darling little children sitting so nicely against a wall, coloring to their hearts content…THESE were masterpieces!
o A picture of me standing at that back of the church, trying to see if Joel was really still preaching even though church was supposed to be over half an hour ago…and seeing him catch my eye while I was standing there and just smile knowingly! It was quite funny.
o A picture of the children’s ministry volunteers and Queen and me sitting in the room after all the kids left debriefing about how it went. Queen talking to them in Kinyarwanda and me trying to understand. Then me asking for a summary in English…then me talking to Queen in English and Queen giving a summary to them of what I was saying/asking in Kinyarwanda.
Truly, some of these pictures are things I have been envisioning for the children’s ministry for a year now! We have a long way to go, but yesterday was a step!
- A picture of Mushi telling me that he had bad news—two of the people from our church were stuck in Karenge (and hour and a half away) where we just planted a new church. They went there to preach etc, but had no transport to get back. Which means, yep, I would go and pick them up!
- A picture of my car having a small problem and stopping on the side of the road in this beautiful village. And being so excited that the same place we happened to stop, there was a woman who was selling bananas!! YAY!
- A picture of seeing this house that we are renting for this new church in the village to be meeting in…a picture of greeting this people and having them proudly show me where they are worshipping…and explaining that they already need more room!
- A picture of them giving us a plate of Pineapple to eat and me trying to stab this pineapple and try to eat it without getting juice absolutely EVERYWHERE!
So…I know this is a bit longer…but I wanted to write these things down anyway and thought some of you might enjoy some of these “pictures.”
