Church and Unpacking Donations

Today we awoke early and went to church. The sleeping arrangements were great and everyone said they were well rested. We were asked to stand up at church and introduce ourselves. The service was all in Africaans and we had a couple of two sentence translations. The music was great.

After we returned from Church and began unpacking the donations we had brought with us. It is interesting to look back on the amount of uncertainty we had in getting the donations here in the first place. There was so much stuff, then at the packing meeting it just disappeared into everyone's bag and it seemed that there wasn't enough to fill my third bag. We actually had to get more stuff to fill up the last two bags. Then when we unpacked it was as if it expanded into a huge mass of stuff, cloths, school supplies, cleats, soccer balls, angels jerseys, medical supplies. Huge amounts. In looking back it, the doubt was erased and God compressed all that stuff into the bags.

Each child at the Ark was allowed to choose one pair of shoes. They loved it, but the real question I kept hearing, "When do we get the togs?". (Togs=Cleats) The soccer cleats had be separated into their own box and all the boys were standing around looking at them. I'm not sure when they are going to be handed out, but I moved the box out of the room because it was cruel and unusual punishment to have that box out in the open reminding the boys. They are so excited.

Later in the afternoon, we all played with the kids. Chalk on the cement. Soccer. Hide and seek. Great fun and the kids are wonderful.