Busy week...

Pic 1- One of the patients holding the "Serenity Prayer" This is what we read at the end of each group session. Pray that this prayer would become practice in the lives of the patients.

Pic 2-One of the patients named Patricia, she's a new believer!! She was led to the Lord by one of the staff of LHCC (Deb, my South African mom :)

Pic 3- This is a patient at the health care center named Mama Theta- see the blog below, "Theta walks" for more about her. She's walking better these days...baby steps everyday. Yesterday she walked all the way outstide to sit in the sun. This is the best picture of her that I've taken- sorry it's not great. This one was taken during a group session.
Here's just a short laundry list of what I've done so far this week. I plan to give you more details, but don't really have much time now :)

Tuesday AM- I attended a drug/alcohol addiction support group for "street people" (otherwise known to us as "homeless."). Wow!! I had lots of thoughts during and after this group. It was a great opportunity for me to be able to hear some very hard stories. My prayer for these men is that God would miraculously take away their taste and desire for alcohol and drugs. And also that they would come to understand the love, forgiveness, grace, and mercy of God Almighty. If I had half of the problems that these men have, I may be just like them- addicted to a substance that kills in every sense of the word. Pray that God would bring them true life, instead of the death of addiction. I plan to attend this group weekly, so you'll probably hear more :)

Tuesday afternoon- I attended kids club in a township called Masi. It was about 15 children of about 10-12 y/o. They were sweet and fun. I got to teach them a song (that was a little scary :) Then they sang for me!!! They sang a song that said "I want to go to heaven someday..." Except they sang it, "I want to go to heaven MONDAY!! (Wouldn't that be nice!!)

Wednesday- I went to a school called Zerilda Park with a team of 5 Life Skills Educators. We did 9, 30 minute classes in which they talked with the kids about making wise choices. It was so much fun, cause I was kind of in my element. I think they had as much energy in the first class at 8:00 as they did in the last class at 1:30. Me, on the other hand...I was almost dead the last half of the day! I'll plan to go with them to this school every Wednesday, so you'll be sure to hear more stories and see pics. The Life Skills Educators have been given complete freedom to teach on whatever they see appropriate for the kids of Zerilda Park. So that means they can tell the kids about the only real hope they could ever have- Jesus!! Pray that they'd be able to build trusting relationships with the kids and that their lives and words will speak of the hope of Christ!

Going on a mission trip this weekend to an area called Sutherland. It's supposed to be really cold- I'm not looking forward to bundling up again, but I'm excited about what God will do! Pray for safety and for open hearts of the people. More about that when I return.

I'm praying for rain in Nashville!! I'd love to trade weather...Lord bring some of Nashville's heat to CT and some of our rain to Nashville!!