Saturday, July 11, 2009

African Lunch!

Hey Everyone! Today was our last day of classroom!! It was great. We had a speaker from Sierra Leone. We talked about some really crucial and interesting things about going into other cultures, such as body language. Some of the points we discussed were as follows. Go in as a learner; Look for common interests; Learn to know something about their culture; seek God in every relationship; Share about your own culture; find ways to serve them; and find ways to connect with the whole family (Ex: attend weddings/funerals etc.);
Edward brought up a sad but true statement. As missionaries, "we tend to use people as projects, not relationships." basically the lesson could be summed up in this saying: "People don't care how much you know untill they see how much you care."
So now that the classroom phase is over, We will have a whole week of Basic Safety Training (BST) starting Monday. I am so excited! We will learn basic CPR, fire and water safety, etc. Tomarrow we are having our own small church service in a chapel here on campus. Mike one of our Gateway team members is a pastor and will be speaking. Myself and a couple other girls are going to help with worship. It will be early 7:15am. Then at 8:15am almost the entire team is loading up and driving an hour and a half to go canoeing! It should be fun. Today I finally finished my shopping for the dominican and the ship. I was able to find the clothes i need for my uniform as receptionist, as well as other things like water bottle, bug spray, work gloves, etc. for the Dominican.
After BST this week, 9 of us will leave around 3am for the Dominican. We will be working with a school there; helping the local boys put a wall up for a boys and girls club. We will also help the local people continue to build a rabbit buisness begun earlier. We will help them build more cages as well as buy some other rabbits to distribute (these rabbits will come from a local man who made good of this program himself earlier and now has rabbits to sell to support himself!). We will spend time with some shoeshine boys as well as other kids and families. I'm so excited. Please pray for health, spiritual protection, team unity, divine appointments, and that God will be glorified.
This is Edmond, the son of our speaker, Edward Davis from Sierra Leone.
We had an African lunch today after Edward spoke in our class! It was Yummy! :)
Pineapple Pie. Mmmmm!
Plantain and blackeyed peas; chicken, beef and rice curry, eggs. Very Good!

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