Good Morning America!
I will quickly hammer this one out before the generator is shut off.
It is noon on Saturday (6am in Oakdale). After a wonderful breakfast at the residence of the ministry president, we spent the morning meeting with the Women's ministry here at CECU in Gemena. We also had a chance to visit a VBS program taking place across town.
The (160) children welcomed our visit with many (loud) songs and lots of dancing. I took some video of it, but the bandwidth here isn't sufficient to support the upload. I will upload it when we return.
One of the songs they sang was a Lingala translation of the children's song "B-I-B-L-E". We returned their music by singing it in English. A few of them sang along in Lingala.
After that visit, every one of the children filed past us and greeted us indivudually. They were adorable!!!
We then returned to the CECU center and met with the women's ministry. We had a chance to drive out and see some more of the sewing machines in use. We had NO idea what kind of an impact the sewing machine's Hope has sent, are having on vocation and biblical instruction in this region.
I can not continue to say "Thank You" enough, from these people.
We shared the story of the Aprons with the leaders of the women's ministry, and gave them a picture of a couple of our Hope ladies (June and Angie) with the aprons.
It is almost time for lunch now! Most of the breakfasts and suppers here are made up of dried goods we packed from the states. So lunch is a great time for us to have the flavor of the Congolese homecooked (over coals out behind the house).
God bless you all (this blog has seen a lot of traffic... that is so encouraging to us!)
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Thank you so much for "blogging" your trip. Every so often during the day I will check to see if you have added anything new. I really feel connected to you all even though we are thousands of miles and several hours separated. Continue the good work! God Bless
John Sampson
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