Wednesday – Welcome to the family!

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As warned, we didn’t have electricity for most of the day, but it didn’t dampen plans any. We do have a generator for chapel time, so that is a help; not that we couldn’t do without it, but it does make things easier. We continue with Joseph; now he’s Pharaoh’s right hand man, and tomorrow he’ll reunite with his brothers. The kids seem to be grasping the correlation of Joseph’s life and their own circumstances. We have a special praise today; 10 kids that we know of have accepted Christ!! One of the girls is Valentine. Today, while sitting on a bench with Helen, who loves to write music, the two of them started singing and sharing and in no time, Valentine had created a song of her own! She sang it tonight in our assembly; what an expression of His miracle working in this girl’s life!! It was truly a glory moment. We put out long banner paper today and let the kids paint murals of their own design. Such colors and creativity! Tonight was a time for each team to present a skit, song, dance, whatever they created as a team. This is always an interesting, fun time! We had some great tribal dancing and music, a skit, songs, a poem, and another original creation by Samantha and Josiah, a song they wrote just prior to the trip. Such talent!! The team is doing a fantastic job; we have so enjoyed being with our UK team members; we love their accents! The lights came on just in time for chapel tonight; God always provides! So we are thinking we’ll have power tomorrow. This seems to be the plight of many African countries right now: no rain, little power, and little water. How enormously blessed we are in the states! Even though we have been under water restrictions at home this summer, it is not a huge sacrifice not to be able to water your lawn. We still can bathe, have plenty of drinking water, etc. How precious water is! Even if the water supply is low here, they are getting a plentiful supply of The Living Water in this camp! Please continue to pray for the kids, local leaders, and the team. Pray for these new little brothers and sisters in Christ, that they will continue to grow strong and not grow weary.