Last Full Day of Ministry....Hard to Believe!

Well I need to start today with a few more details about one of yesterday's highlights. First just a little background information. Ryan Coffey has been doing his Assembly object lesson with the balloons since our first day. While he introduces himself he mentions that he is from Kentucky. On day one he said, "home of horse racing, basketball, and fried chicken".  Well this made the kids roar with laughter as you can imagine most have heard of KFC!  The interesting thing is that most of the laughter comes from the kids interpreting this statement basically as Ryan saying he is from chicken. Each day he has introduced himself by saying he is from Kentucky, and without even mentioning the chicken any more the kids still laugh from the interpretation. One other funny fact is that one of our daily snacks that we have been bringing is fried chicken flavored bags of chips. Well yesterday when praying with his arms around the kids the wetness that Ryan felt on his hand while he was praying was actually one of the girls licking/tasting him. She not only did it once but decided to check a second time if he was "finger licking good".  Perhaps she did get a hint of fried chicken taste because of the chips.  Wow did we all have a great laugh about that situation. 

So today started with me having the opportunity to lead our team in devotions at breakfast. We looked at two main points. Firstly, that no matter how simple our message 'God is able' to use it to accomplish His purposes.  We looked at the simple eight word message that Jonah preached on his short term mission trip and saw that although He spoke, the people believed God. (Jonah 3:4,5) So He is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine! See Ephesians 3:20. 
Secondly, I need to have the same attitude as Jesus Christ. That attitude is one of being a servant to all and humbling ourselves to put our own agendas aside. (Philippians 2:5-8) We need to serve in such away that the blessing we have, and the blessings we are to people gives glory to God and brings people to Christ. 

After devotions we once again loaded up and headed into Mokopane to three different schools. The smaller team took two smaller schools and worked with all the kids in the school to have a time of Bible Study as well as enjoying shooting bows and arrows with them.  It will be an adjustment for all of us coming back to work with our kids. The level of emotion is so high here in the kids!  They can hardly wait to try archery and seem so content to shoot just a few arrows. I think sometimes that our North American kids are far more difficult to impress due to all the technology and information overload they are bombarded with.  Here the kids are certainly from various social status', but even at the various levels the kids seem to have a better ability to be content and happy on their situation.  

I think I will end this entry for now as I can barely keep my eyes opened. It is midnight and we will be up no later than 5:30 AM again to be ready for our day. I will fill you in on some details from our school tomorrow.  Good night and God bless!