Origo - Choose To Wait

Here are two pictures from our first day of teaching Choose To Wait at Origo primary school. This was by far the poorest school in Rehoboth. There were at least three different barbed wire fences in the playground area and one had an extra coil of barbed wire lying loose on the ground next to it. This picture must have been taken as we broke into small groups. There were only four of us, so we made four different groups and sat the groups at the four corners of the assembly room. I remember the accoustics were so bad you could barely hear yourself think, let alone ask and answer tough questions about sex and marriage. The next day we arrived at the same time determined to take the small groups outside for better acoustics. Michelle gathered them at the front of the room to watch a skit and she turned to us and said they wanted to sing us a song. Once they started my jaw dropped. It was the most amazing sound I have ever heard. I would pay to experience it again. I have been to the Vatican on Christmas Eve and the sound these young adults produced was better than anything presented there. By far.
This was just another reminder that this was a place of contrasts. So much good and so much evil and nothing in between. The most amazing beauty in places you least expected it.