Today was a good day! The guys finished putting up the slides on the playground. The bolts for the swings are in place, and they will be finished by tomorrow. Once the slides were assembled, the kids just went wild. Kim had a time with traffic control!
Kim and Adam continued with one-on-one interviews --- this time with the cooks at their houses. The ladies facilitated crafts with the kids. They traced their hands on paper and colored them. Each finger represented 5 spiritual growth areas - pray, read your Bible, obey, tell others, and go to church. Carol sang songs in Portuguese and danced with the kids -- which the ladies tried unsuccessfully to imitate:).
On a side note, part of the team got to go to the American Embassy -- Greg needed more pages in his well-traveled passport!
Tomorrow, we are finishing last minute details --- installing swings and possibly some home visits. Afterwards the team will be leaving for the game park in Swaziland where we will spend the night with the animals! Lions and tigers and bears -- OH MY!
TIA -- We will not post tomorrow because we'll be at the game park. Hope to update the blog on Friday.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Construction Begins
Today was great! We were able to begin building a "monster" playground... pics to come. The men dug holes with a shovel and muscle, hoisted solid wood posts and secured the posts with cement. The biggest accomplishment for the day for the guys was realizing that Pi r Round, not Squared... Ha Ha. Building a playground with an IT guy (Steve), an engineer (Greg) and a Marine (Bryan) is truly a learning experience.
The women helped by sanding and painting the 2 slides for the project. Connie headed up the painting project. A preteen boy named Mario, helped in all of the projects with no prompting. In the time it took 2 of us to dig a hole for the swingset, he finished the same task single handedly. Mona taught the kids the LSU fight song... L-S-U Tigers!! Rena' and Fern played kickball with the kids and gave them lessons in hop scotch and hand games. Jane taught volleyball and exhausted herself with a game of soccer. Kelley used her Nurse Practitioner skills to see many children and diagnose ailments. This was a great blessing to the CarePoint as medicines on hand were used to specifically help the kids in need.
Kim and Adam shot one-on-one interviews with the cooks for the CarePoint. They were deeply impacted by how real these women were in their answers. Most of these women are single mothers and are facing the same challenges that a single woman in the States would also face. These videos will be used at a HPC Women's Conference in the fall.
Tomorrow we will come back for more of the same as well as doing home visits and crafts with the children.
TIA (This is Africa)... we hope to be giving you more updates tomorrow. If the Internet is working!!
The women helped by sanding and painting the 2 slides for the project. Connie headed up the painting project. A preteen boy named Mario, helped in all of the projects with no prompting. In the time it took 2 of us to dig a hole for the swingset, he finished the same task single handedly. Mona taught the kids the LSU fight song... L-S-U Tigers!! Rena' and Fern played kickball with the kids and gave them lessons in hop scotch and hand games. Jane taught volleyball and exhausted herself with a game of soccer. Kelley used her Nurse Practitioner skills to see many children and diagnose ailments. This was a great blessing to the CarePoint as medicines on hand were used to specifically help the kids in need.
Kim and Adam shot one-on-one interviews with the cooks for the CarePoint. They were deeply impacted by how real these women were in their answers. Most of these women are single mothers and are facing the same challenges that a single woman in the States would also face. These videos will be used at a HPC Women's Conference in the fall.
Tomorrow we will come back for more of the same as well as doing home visits and crafts with the children.
TIA (This is Africa)... we hope to be giving you more updates tomorrow. If the Internet is working!!
Monday, August 27, 2007
We're Here!
Well, we have arrived at last! It was a long journey but smooth. We went to the church and played with the kids today. It was such a blessing to spend time with them. Today we helped them play on a makeshift slide leaning between trees. In order for them to get up there, one of us had to lift them to the top of it. They loved every minute of it (and so did we) but we're excited to start building a nice new playground tomorrow. We can feel your prayers all the way here in Maputo. We love you and will write again as soon as possible.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Count Down
We are counting down the hours until we head to Maputo to serve the people of Mozambique. Less than 24 hours and we are on the plane!!
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