Yoyo,
My bad on the absence of blog posts. We've been fairly busy and internet is a bit slow. Today we only worked a half day at the house laying some tile. I should explain, the reason we are laying tile in southern Sudan is because a doctor is coming July 2nd to live here. The house still has a lot of work to get it finished so me and Ben get to participate. The doctor happens to have 6 children that are coming also, thus the large house. Pastor Dennis and some Sudanese laborers are working on a few other buildings which will comprise the clinic. The main hope of this clinic is to provide c-sections for women. Many mother's lose their lives in childbirth in southern Sudan, and the baby that is born is then viewed as a curse. Children will be buried alive with their mothers, or killed in some other terrible way. So, a lot of the children at Harvesters are here as a result of their mother's dying. Pastor Dennis told me today that probably half of the kids here (that's 75) would be dead if Harvesters didn't exist.
We've also taken some time to play with kids. (I was going to insert a picture here, but my computer isn't picking up the wireless too well here. I'll try later.) We are trying to learn names as well, but its sort of impossible as there are roughly 150 kids here.
Pastor Pushani (the lady who is over all of the discipling, church, etc... ) put me and Ben in charge of leading a group of 5 high school guys who live outside of the compound, but used to live here. They are all cool guys and we really hope to pour into their lives while here. Their names are John, John, John, Nicholas, and Samuel. 3 Johns. Crazy. We are meeting with them tonight and talking from Luke 8. Pushani gave us the verses to go over. Please pray for these guys- that we can dig deep into their lives, make a lasting impact, form lifelong friendships, draw them closer to Christ. Building a house is super cool, but impacting lives is cooler.
-Nic Treat
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