Friday 28 March 2014
Sunday 23 March 2014
Hey bru!!
One of our latest projects is forcing ourselves to say 'bru' (south african equivilent of bro) a lot so that by the time we get home we will say it without thinking and be cool enough to pull it off!!
We have had a fairly exciting few weeks, we went to the rugby to see The Sharks vs The Reds, we went all out with the sharks facepaint and left having a bit more of a clue about the rules of rugby! The sharks won 35-20!!
Friday was a national holiday so we went on a hike, a decision we were regretting when we had to get up at 6! We walked down a gorge and along the river, we spent 20 minutes walking in silence after Nate, Carl and Janelle (friends from church) convinced us we might walk into a baboon! We didn't particularly enjoy the walk back uphill and some of us couldn't walk up or down the stairs the next day!!
One of the funniest moments in the last few weeks was when we were babysitting for Chris and Junior, all was going well until Junior went up for a bath and came down having shaved off some of his hair! We were all speechless as were his parent when we dropped them home!
We have now all spent 2 weeks on each project and will spend the next 2 weeks painting a room in the high school, moving the creche and opening the LI charity shop! On Thursday we spent some time praying for the safe house, the safe house is quite literally a safe house where children can stay who have been taken out of abusive hone situations. We prayed for the children living there and the new house mum, there have been several challenges with the children living there recently.
We had our first trip to the doctors this week, Abi had a huge bite on her foot, resulting in a cankle and not being able to walk! All is fine now! We have also had sickness, colds, headaches, general tiredness and dodgy bowels! Please pray for team health and energy.
We are all slightly worried about the lack of wakaberry (frozen yoghurt) in England, we eat so much of it.....
That's all for now,
Lots of love Catherine and the girls
Prayer requests-
-the lack of LI vehicle, please pray for the funds to become available
-the safe house, children living there and house mum
-team health and energy
One of our latest projects is forcing ourselves to say 'bru' (south african equivilent of bro) a lot so that by the time we get home we will say it without thinking and be cool enough to pull it off!!
We have had a fairly exciting few weeks, we went to the rugby to see The Sharks vs The Reds, we went all out with the sharks facepaint and left having a bit more of a clue about the rules of rugby! The sharks won 35-20!!
Friday was a national holiday so we went on a hike, a decision we were regretting when we had to get up at 6! We walked down a gorge and along the river, we spent 20 minutes walking in silence after Nate, Carl and Janelle (friends from church) convinced us we might walk into a baboon! We didn't particularly enjoy the walk back uphill and some of us couldn't walk up or down the stairs the next day!!
One of the funniest moments in the last few weeks was when we were babysitting for Chris and Junior, all was going well until Junior went up for a bath and came down having shaved off some of his hair! We were all speechless as were his parent when we dropped them home!
We have now all spent 2 weeks on each project and will spend the next 2 weeks painting a room in the high school, moving the creche and opening the LI charity shop! On Thursday we spent some time praying for the safe house, the safe house is quite literally a safe house where children can stay who have been taken out of abusive hone situations. We prayed for the children living there and the new house mum, there have been several challenges with the children living there recently.
We had our first trip to the doctors this week, Abi had a huge bite on her foot, resulting in a cankle and not being able to walk! All is fine now! We have also had sickness, colds, headaches, general tiredness and dodgy bowels! Please pray for team health and energy.
We are all slightly worried about the lack of wakaberry (frozen yoghurt) in England, we eat so much of it.....
That's all for now,
Lots of love Catherine and the girls
Prayer requests-
-the lack of LI vehicle, please pray for the funds to become available
-the safe house, children living there and house mum
-team health and energy
Friday 14 March 2014
Hi there!
We have had a very exciting week with lots of firsts including: fasting, going to homegroup and for me and Catherine driving partway to work (thankfully we made it in one piece)!
This week Catherine and I have been in Amandlethu, a secondary school with about 2,000 students from grade 8 (age 13 or 14) up to grade 12 (age 17 or 18). We have been teaching a programme called Life Orientation to the grade 8s with Zama, Pumza and Maqhawe. Life Orientation aims to help the children build strong relationships, plan for the future and learn about the dangers of drugs, alcohol and sexual relationships.
Teenage pregnancy is quite a big problem here so it is really important to properly educate the kids and at a young age. The programme is having a noticeable effect because the number of pregnancies has decreased in the 7 years they have been there - when they first started teaching there were 5 pregnant girls in grade 8 alone!
LI are in desperate need of a new car so that they can give out food parcels and do home visits. Unfortunately their vehicle (Tata), after coming out of the garage 2 weeks earlier, gave up the ghost. The Tata has been on its last legs for a while but there just haven't been the funds for a new car, so the whole LI team (including us) decided to fast for 3 days and pray for God to resolve the problem. We did decide to have an evening meal each day so that we weren't fainting all over the place - especially as this is our first time fasting. Having originally planned to break our fast on Wednesday, the 6 of us felt challenged to continue until Friday, when members of the board were meeting to discuss various issues; one of which was the vehicle. At this very moment we are awaiting the return of Zanele from the board meeting - so that we can eat!
This week has been quite full on, the fast only presenting half of the challenge. We've had problems with the electrics, had to break up a fight involving two young boys and a belt, struggled with ill health and have even been peed on by Creche children (more than once!). But we've also seen some amazing things. On thursday, Abi, Pippa, Emma and Catherine helped the team give out 16 food parcels in the community. They came back looking like four drowned rats, but all laughing and full of God's joy. They had spent 2 hours in the rain, running around and handing out food from the back of a borrowed pick up truck. Pippa got to test her amazing reversing skills too! Apparantly the overwhelming thankfulness from GoGos (grandmas), parents and children gave everyone a desperately needed lift in spirit. After all, seeing God's work done is what we're here for!
So that's it for this week! Thanks again for your continued support and prayers.
Lots of love
Hannah x
We have had a very exciting week with lots of firsts including: fasting, going to homegroup and for me and Catherine driving partway to work (thankfully we made it in one piece)!
This week Catherine and I have been in Amandlethu, a secondary school with about 2,000 students from grade 8 (age 13 or 14) up to grade 12 (age 17 or 18). We have been teaching a programme called Life Orientation to the grade 8s with Zama, Pumza and Maqhawe. Life Orientation aims to help the children build strong relationships, plan for the future and learn about the dangers of drugs, alcohol and sexual relationships.
Teenage pregnancy is quite a big problem here so it is really important to properly educate the kids and at a young age. The programme is having a noticeable effect because the number of pregnancies has decreased in the 7 years they have been there - when they first started teaching there were 5 pregnant girls in grade 8 alone!
LI are in desperate need of a new car so that they can give out food parcels and do home visits. Unfortunately their vehicle (Tata), after coming out of the garage 2 weeks earlier, gave up the ghost. The Tata has been on its last legs for a while but there just haven't been the funds for a new car, so the whole LI team (including us) decided to fast for 3 days and pray for God to resolve the problem. We did decide to have an evening meal each day so that we weren't fainting all over the place - especially as this is our first time fasting. Having originally planned to break our fast on Wednesday, the 6 of us felt challenged to continue until Friday, when members of the board were meeting to discuss various issues; one of which was the vehicle. At this very moment we are awaiting the return of Zanele from the board meeting - so that we can eat!
This week has been quite full on, the fast only presenting half of the challenge. We've had problems with the electrics, had to break up a fight involving two young boys and a belt, struggled with ill health and have even been peed on by Creche children (more than once!). But we've also seen some amazing things. On thursday, Abi, Pippa, Emma and Catherine helped the team give out 16 food parcels in the community. They came back looking like four drowned rats, but all laughing and full of God's joy. They had spent 2 hours in the rain, running around and handing out food from the back of a borrowed pick up truck. Pippa got to test her amazing reversing skills too! Apparantly the overwhelming thankfulness from GoGos (grandmas), parents and children gave everyone a desperately needed lift in spirit. After all, seeing God's work done is what we're here for!
So that's it for this week! Thanks again for your continued support and prayers.
Lots of love
Hannah x
Monday 3 March 2014
Saturday 1 March 2014
Heyyyy
This week has been CRAZY!! We have been staying in Amaoti with Theo and Zanele and their family, we weren't expecting the car horns to start at 5am!! Amaoti is the township which we are working in. We have been told that white people never stay in Amaoti, we were greeted with an amazing traditional welcome of dancing. Highlights included eating cow intestine, riding in the back of the truck and doing the hokey kokey in the back yard with goats watching.
The 6 of us were all in one room, 3 of us in one bed. At least once Theo asked if we were ok due to our laughing sounding like someone was dying.....
We ended the week with a braai (BBQ) which involved lots of loud music, dancing and so much meat!!
We have just got home to a river coming out our door.... Turns out that a pipe has burst in our bathroom..... Everything is ok now, the water ran straight down the stairs and out the house so didn't damage anything although we have turned the water off so can't have a much needed wash, average time since a hair wash is a week....
We all swapped projects this week, Catherine and Emma are in the creche, Abi and Hannah in the primary school and Pippa and Kez in the secondary school.
Its been an exhausting week but we have laughed so much!
Lots of love
Xxxxxxx
This week has been CRAZY!! We have been staying in Amaoti with Theo and Zanele and their family, we weren't expecting the car horns to start at 5am!! Amaoti is the township which we are working in. We have been told that white people never stay in Amaoti, we were greeted with an amazing traditional welcome of dancing. Highlights included eating cow intestine, riding in the back of the truck and doing the hokey kokey in the back yard with goats watching.
The 6 of us were all in one room, 3 of us in one bed. At least once Theo asked if we were ok due to our laughing sounding like someone was dying.....
We ended the week with a braai (BBQ) which involved lots of loud music, dancing and so much meat!!
We have just got home to a river coming out our door.... Turns out that a pipe has burst in our bathroom..... Everything is ok now, the water ran straight down the stairs and out the house so didn't damage anything although we have turned the water off so can't have a much needed wash, average time since a hair wash is a week....
We all swapped projects this week, Catherine and Emma are in the creche, Abi and Hannah in the primary school and Pippa and Kez in the secondary school.
Its been an exhausting week but we have laughed so much!
Lots of love
Xxxxxxx
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