first 2 weeks of outreach experience!

So the first two weeks of outraech are over! Wow, and my oh my we have been blessed.
It was kind of like, BAM. We are now on the giving side after receiving receving receiving. But i love it, i love sharing what i have learned.
We are on our way to Naimiba, we were in Port Eliz. the first week and George this past week. You may have seen the pictures of how we are travling/....in the 12-passenger van (the combie)...with the backseat down, luggage paked in, matresses on top and then 3 or 4 girls lying ontop of the matrseses. haha...its crazy but fun. - so far.
We are staying with families here, so we get home-cooked meals and a bed with a matress and covers and it is very nice!! We really are blessed so far.
Although it is getting very cold....i am in Africa, and i bought a scarf and gloves yesterday. I also get dressed in my sleeping bag, its THAT cold!! Man....well in the morrnings and eventnings, in the daytime its quite warm still. But i definatly have climatized, because its still like, 18 degrees....crazy hey.
So the first week we did the soccer camp, wich was fun, i think i alraedy takled abuot that.
Then this past week we haev been doing a programm with 2 different groups of kids, one at Rosemore church where we went to a Xosa church service, which was very cool! Man, it was small, and they sing so so well, they don't have any instrements, and they all harmonize, and it is just SO beautiful. The service was in 3 languages...Africaans, Xosa, and English - very cool. They are very old traditional - the men sit on one side and the women and children on the other. I shared a bit about my past and how God has lifted my burdens, and it was very good.
Anyways, so God has really worked through us this past week to these kids....it was the first time a group has EVER come through and did something likethis, so thye were raelly blessed, but so were we. We would play games and worship and do a drama every day...They are just so cute...the ages were from 2-17, and they all had fun, and all learned something. I really really enjoyed myself....the kids just love getting hugged, i think my and their favorite part of the day was the end where we say goodbye and hug them. And its not just a quick hug, its a long meaningful hug, and its real sad, cuz its probably the only hug like that they'll get in a long time. On the last day we did a hectic drama, that was just very powerful, about Jesus taking the hurts of others onto the cross and stuch - and i played Jesus haha. Anyway, then we had a prayer time and all the kids came up fpr prayer, and it was amazing. Some of them were crying and they told us storys of how they get beaten, and the most common story was their parents drinking. Alcoholism is a HUGE problem in the townships. So it was very a very productive and meaningful encouraging week. Our taem is raelly in awe of how God works.
On wed we went out to a chicken farm house place. It was acctaully my dream house...it was a total hippy house! - A chickn farm turned house, all done up beautifully!! I loved it..i want to live there. Anyhoo, we did a church service there for about 10 people living there, and it was very good. People live there who have just got out of prison with no where to go, and a christian family kind of helps them.
Well....overall this week has been a week of blessings, learning, and loving.....
I love my team. We are all so different, and we are learning to love eachother more and more. :)
We leave for Namibia on monday. There are heavy rains there right now, so a few of us have to take malaria medication, and i am not looking forward to it.....
Thank you for your prayers, and for reading my blogs. :P
Prayer request is for me to be able to get a Visa extention without much trouble or money. !!

Love you all, keep movin forward.
xoxox
Tierney.


"Trust in the Lord, and lean not on your own understanding,..in all ways aknowlege him, and he will direct your paths."