Hello's and goodbye's!

Hello all!

What a crazy few days! Friday marked another night of "The Event" a youth night full of worship, games, drama, prizes, photo booth, dances and lots of fun at our church, Vineyard Fellowship. The theme of the night was "Love your selfie." 275 young people where there and 50 decided to make a commitment to follow Jesus which is incredible! YFC did a skit on how the devil tempts you but how Jesus saves you. There was a mother with a young baby who ended up wanting to kill the baby; a teenager full of self-confidence but then feels unworthy and finally a student who is very into studying who ends up wanting to shoot herself. It linked in with the testimony of Mickey, a guy from our home cell who had a 19 year cocaine habit before he was saved. It was such a fun night and one that I will never forget! We did the monkey dance 3 times!! For those who don't know the monkey dance its from Hillsong and is just jumping around being crazy!



selfie with Pastor Steve, his wife Dee and Freddie

Unleashing my inner drama queen












We went back to Karatara on Saturday for a "Holland Special" - 9 Dutchies are here for 3 weeks and they introduced us to Dutch games and songs. It was so nice to be back and to see all the children again! It was basically the same structure as Holiday Club - worship, story, games, sports and not forgetting the food. We were playing netball and one of the Dutch guys started playing. He had never played netball before but he was so tall he was amazing! And he's probably the shortest one of them too!



Reliving our childhood!

On Saturday night we were invited to Pastor Felix & Maureen's house for supper. They are from Zimbabwe so it was a traditional meal of pap, vegetables and meat, all eaten with your hands!! You have to take a bit of pap, roll it into a ball, pick up some vegetables and eat it. Its very hard! Everyone else were such pros at it except Madie & I. It was definitely spot the white girls!! Their wee boy Kyle was my best friend that night and he is so funny! He is obsessed with Michael Jackson and gave us a performance of his moves!

Traditional Zimbabwean meal

 

Monday was a very sad day for us all, Madie left to go back to Germany. We got so close here, especially in the last two months when there were just 4 volunteers, the three girls and Ethan. We went on holiday together and shared so many stories and had so much fun together. She became my sister and I will miss her a lot, especially in my last three weeks here. But look out for her as she's coming to visit me sometime soon!

The countdown is on until I leave now - just over 2 weeks!

Until next time...

Love from Knysna xxx