Team work! Two is better than one.

This week has been a heaping scoop of crazy and more than a few dashes of busy. There is a team here from my home church, The Bible Church of Little Rock. Four adult leaders and eleven young adults are here to helping out for 9 days.

Andre and Pastor Josh have been leading them around Africa and partnering with other pastors and churches to meet their needs. Saturday they were here at the Home with us, Sunday we had church, and Monday and Tuesday they were in Standerton. Standerton is a shanty town. We are friends with Pastor James who is serving faithfully there. He makes $5 a month to feed his family of 6. They can't afford to send their kids to school because they can't buy uniforms. Despite this, Pastor James faithfully preaches the true gospel, rather than a prosperity gospel which is thriving and would bring home more money. He is always smiling; and he helps to feed the orphans in the area and tutor them after school. The team blessed him by coming along side him and helping enable him to continue in the ministry he is already doing. They spent Wednesday at the Home, helping with projects and playing with my babies.

On Thursday, Britt - the other intern here with me - and I were able to go with the team to Pilanesburg again. It was an eventful trip!! In the first 30 minutes one of our cars was charged by an elephant! Praise the Lord that that mad momma stopped before running all the way into it! Then, at lunch a monkey jumped over the deck and stole some of Britt's chips (French fries)!!!

This weekend the team is going to two more townships to help out pastors and churches there. I'm so thankful that they are here partnering with these churches to help enable them to serve more effectively.

On Sunday I will leave on the same flight as the team to go home. I'm both sad and excited at the same time.  I really don't want to leave my babies or my new friends. Two months is so short and I feel like I'm at the point where I really have some great relationships here that I hate to leave as they are just blossoming. However, the Lord has taught me so much here and I know that He has changed me. I can't wait to see what opportunites he will give me to apply everything to life back home!