Thursday was a long, but great day. We are exhausted (which is why these posts are getting shorter and earlier). We are entirely thankful though. We were able to spend the morning helping renovate the youth building for Norwegian Settlers Church. We were able to scrape tile off the walls and paint a room orange (but never burnt orange). The church was incredibly thankful!
Our afternoon was at Gamalakhe. It was incredible! Many of the older kids (mistakenly) thought today was our last day. They decided that they would make cards for their “new American friends.” We all have so many cards! And these cards are beautiful! It really shows that we are having an impact on these students, but even more so, it is an incredible encouragement that we are connecting with them. This is highly important to us because we are presenting the gospel to them tomorrow. Specifically pray for Selina tonight. She will be God’s mouthpiece to present his plan of salvation tomorrow! It will be at roughly 9:00 am Central time. Also, all of us are already dreading pulling away from Gamalakhe tomorrow without our new friends!
I know you are tired, but God is certainly using you as His hands and feet this week. I pray that your last day will be very effective and rewarding. I know your lives will be greatly impacted by this week as well as those to whom you have ministered. Take care.
ReplyDeleteJo Roddy (mom to Leslie Taylor and sometimes Jeremy and Kristi!!)
We all can certainly understand that you must be absolutely exhausted with all that you have done yet again today, but once again - we have to tell you how proud we all are of you, and that we are continuing to pray that God will give you the strength you need. May God be with all of you - and thank you again so much for the wonderful pictures and updates - we have really enjoyed being able to share your experiences with you - may God bless you for ALL your hard work!! All the smiles and pictures of hard work say it all!
ReplyDeleteTake care - and hey - everyone - I heard something about a contest for the most comments between Firewheel and Rockwall from the Rockwall blog . .. not going to let anyone outdo the Firewheel group are we?????
Take care everyone - and have an awesome day!! We are continuing to pray for you all.
Apparently some of the FW parents aren't able to leave comments. But I know you are very sad that today is now over and tomorrow you will begin your journey home. JR
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