Monday, March 28, 2011

Monday, July 5, 2010

Group devotions were back to being at 5am. During outreach this morning, there was an interesting event that happened. Ana-Maria and Lwimba and I were sent out together. She and I would lead and he would interpret. Our topic was the State of the Dead. We only hit two houses. Ana-Maria did the first house. There were probably 20 people sitting outside listening, including children. People would walk past and join us. They were very receptive. Then I did the second house. The couple seemed very receptive too. Then he asked about when someone dies and people see what physically looks like that person. He was wondering what that is. It had happened there and scared all the villagers. I let Ana-Maria take that one and discuss the witch of Endor. Then he asked about clean and unclean foods, specifically fish, and brought us his fish, split in half and hanging open, gutted, and asked if it was be an abomination to eat it. We all laughed and said no.
When we had our debriefing of our experiences in the field, Ana-Maria excitedly told everyone that I had given a Bible study to Michenchi. Everyone was surprised and asked “How’d he respond?” “What’d he say?” Ana-Maria didn’t have the same interpretation of his reaction of acceptance as I did. I just sat there confused, wondering how they knew who he was. I don’t remember if I verbally asked who he was or if they saw my state of confusion and just responded, “Oh, he’s the village witch doctor!” Just said like matter of factly. I was now surprised, not confused. Ana-Maria said “Why do you think I was praying so hard for you?” I told her “I didn’t know you were praying but thank you!” I gave a Bible study on the State of the Dead to a witch doctor! Praise the Lord she didn’t tell me who he was before hand! I started praying that I’d said things correctly and that he’d gotten the message that he needed.
After lunch of homemade pizza pockets with Imana, Marleen braided my hair. Two young girls starred at us the whole time. Children in both villages were fascinated with my hair, wondering if it was real. When we’d returned from outreach, I found out that I was to be leaving with TC and Lwimba. TC was too busy talking, so around 5:30pm, Lwimba and I started walking the 6 miles back to Muchinshi. We didn’t really know which path to take. An older gentleman corrected us at one point and sent us toward the power tower. We ended up taking the path past the clinic and stopping by the crusade site before making it back to the church. The worst part of the trip was actually getting from the crusade site to the church. As we didn’t have a flashlight, we tried to stay on the main paths, thinking they went in the same direction as the smaller ones. We then missed the small entrance to the big path by the soccer field and had to go back. Good thing there was a frame for the soccer net. All the navigating within Muchinshi was done by me since Lwimba was only there for a few hours before we left for Kapampa. TC finally met up with us as he biked across the soccer field.


With gusto in their voices, Mushinka and TC taught us how to eat. You have to say "MMmm! MMMmmm! This is Powerful!!"


Eating Sugar Cane 101: I failed!


Public Well


Staff Toilet (no flush necessary)


Most of Team John: Teacher, Elder, Lwimba, TC, visitor, Ana-Maria, myself, James. Missing: Lembe, Mushinka, and Marleen


myself, Ana-Maria, Marleen


I was excited to see Chama and Tecla again. I ate and went to the crusade site. There weren’t many children there that night, it was pretty cold. I got back to the church around 9:45 and thankfully Michelle had made it back by then. Their van broke down and they had to walk the last 8K there without light. So we did the same distance but at least we had sun for the first half. And they had to leave most of their luggage in the van. Of course, Michelle and I didn’t go to bed right away and stayed up talking. It was good to be together again!

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