Well, the last few days have been really busy and exciting. We have been doing ministry with Street Kids, Widows, and HIV victims... as well as whoever else shows up in these locations. It was a bit difficult starting off because we weren’t really sure what to be doing... What the expectations are. Now we know a lot more of them.
1) Repeating songs is not only encouraged, but it is preferred! (not like Canada!)
2) People are quite willing to listen about the Bible, Jesus, and preaching is often encouraged
3) People like different EQ (sound) settings... (you thought we like loud music in Canada!)
There have been others too, but those are the first that come to mind. The other day, Karina, myself and 4 others (I think) were going into the hills nearby to work with HIV victims and along the way we saw some large tents with goats and cows nearby. Karina took a picture of the goats and off we went. Very shortly after we were stopped by a very agitated soldier. Turns out, the tents were part of the army airbase area, and when they saw a camera, they started freaking out. He tried to stop the vehicle, but nobody saw him, and our driver didn’t see him either. So he had to go and grab a bicycle and chase down our taxi van. When he caught up with us, they brought us back to the road by the base and then they took all our cameras to make sure we hadn’t been spying for the French or the Germans. We were there for a good hour sitting in the van while all this was sorted out. Meanwhile we entertained a group of kids that were so excited to be visiting with some Mazoongoos! Lol, it was quite the experience!
We just were at the slummish area of Kigali again last night. There are some street kids there who have been chosen to play soccer. While they do however, they get to learn about Jesus and the Bible and they disciple those who want to follow Jesus. Their soccer cheer is, ‘1, 2, 3, JESUS!’ Very cool. Anyways, while we wait for them to finish practice (2 hours), we whipped out the guitar and instantly there was 20 people there. Granted in the end, there was more people there the first time, just because of the time of day... but there was still a lot of people and we had so much fun singing songs and talking, doing illusions and we even brought out a couple puppets too!
The area we are in is called Samadooha, and it’s the last stop for the buses in this part of down. Nothing like long bus rides home!
We have been trying to find the right adapter for a transformer we got to use for our sound system. However, most of the ministries we’ve done so far have had no power, and have been in places that people like us (if we were tourists) would never go. As such, we hear, ‘Mazoongoos!’ Everywhere we go... (it means White man...) and yes, they even call Nathan a Mazoongoo. Hehe.
Oh, yesterday, I was helping whack weeds out here. The tool I used is a little shorter than a golf club, but angled the same way... straight all the way down, with a crook at the end. Only that the metal is flat and wide with a sharp end at the bottom. Almost like a Machete. Anyways, I was out whacking stuff and the people kept commenting as they walked by. One told me I should be wearing gloves. Lol. Anyways, soon there was a group of 5 kids. They were having a grand time watching me swinging away. All of a sudden while I was swinging, I lost my grip on this weed whacker! It went flying straight up. I covered my head, ducked and went running. It landed harmlessly a few feet from me. One of the boys who had been watching just started to laugh, and laugh, and then he picked up a piece of grass and acted out what I had just did. Swinging and then losing my grip on it and then running away with my hands on my head, and then they laughed all over again. Lol, kids are funny. And I think they think I am. :)
There is a graduation for the students this afternoon, and so this morning we are going to be helping them get
ready, and this afternoon, they’ve asked us to lead the music worship. :D It’s going to be fun!
Therefore, I’m off to get ready, and oh, we’re going to be at one of the biggest churches in the area. Apparently 300 people is a little church... so we’ll see what happens! Thanks for your prayers and we are doing well. There’s the occasional sickish person and the occasional weary weary day. Everyone says Hi to everyone at home!
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The graduation was good! We had an amazing time leading music with them. lol, they just LOVE to sing and dance and cheer. It was really fun. The downside is that some of the students are going to be gone now... They're done the communications course here.
Today though is still going to be busy. There's a church nearby that Sylvan's brother is getting married in today and they want us to bring the whole sound system over on foot and do a drama and maybe a song! lol, we'll see what happens with that!
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