Right before I left Colorado, my brothers gave me a slack line for my birthday. It is basically a 70ft piece of webbing that is one inch think. You then ous carabeaners to make a pully system in order to make a tightrope between two trees, it is good for your balance, but just a fun way to hangout with people. But the kids here love it!! Some of the kids from a nearby village come up every night to play games and they always love it. It was great we had 30 kids on it all bouncing around with big smiles. It was such a great way to just hang out beings that i only know like 10 words here. It seems so serial, almost like a movie with all the bright colors. Let me try to describe it a bit because uploading pictures hasn’t been working out so well. On the soccer field where i set up the line, the first thing you see in fields of sugarcane, (it looks kind of like a swamp plant or something) then just beyond that is the Nile, gianormous! the sky is so blue and the sun is so strong. It is very lush but everywhere else there is red dirt that once it is on you it is not going anywhere. So through the fields of sugar cane pop up smiling faces, so full of life. In their colorful clothing they run and start doing cartwheels in the grass, laughing and giggling. but to be part of it. to play and live with them is such a huge blessing. I am so thankful.
The Lord had also really been working on me and healing so many areas of my life. To be able to fall before His thrown and really have time to listen. I am so thankful. Everyone here that i am going to school with and living with is so incredibly powerful. I sit next to a pastor who has started 18 churches (he is not a designated pastor but the Lord told him to start a church so he did) Another has adopted a child, he is close to my age but he and his brother are raising 4 boys. Three of the boys are orphans and life has never been an easy thing. But the Lord in His mercy is allowing me to able to learn from their experiences, and live and learn together. I am so thankful to be able to call them friends.
At a Crusade
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Hi Meg,
I loved the description of the kids coming through the fields to play and the photo of Matt under your slackline is great!! I am trying to get used to this page I was suprised the photo was at the bottom as oppsed to next to the entry. Whatever :)! I really loved the description of the array of colors.
God bless you!!!!
Mom
Hey Megan, its been great to hear about your time there. And I think its super cool that your there, for one DTS is the greatest thing but then to do in in Africa is so great. God is going to bless you so much there I cant wait to hear how it turn out for ya. And yeah being away from home is hard but its always a huge blessing because you then can see how powerful our King is and how much He will work through you. So keep your head up God will give you the strength to break down walls. Take care and Ill be praying for ya...
Blessings
Stephen Wall
I love your family. 1)Because your brothers gave you a slackline for your birthday. 2)Because that was a good present!
Hope you're loving Africa, let it love you back.
Oh yeah, China was amazing, of course. Tell you about it sometime...
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