We began our day at Pangani School holding VBS for the
1st and 2nd graders. The kids blessed us with their brightness and their joyful
singing. As they day went on we could hear the children singing the memory
verse that we taught them as we walked through the hall ways - "We love
because he first loved us" 1 John 4:19. Our class sizes are huge -
sometimes we are teaching to 2 classes at one time. With 65 kids in the room it
can be a challenge to spend meaningful moments with each and every child. But
those thoughts are quickly dismissed when the kids line up to leave and you're
getting 6 hugs at one time while giving hi-fives out to any hand that you can
reach.
Later, we walked into the valley again to evangelize and
to pray for some members of the community. We met a mother of child who attends
MOHI. She told us that her older daughter is in Joska which is a boarding
school a few hours away from Pangani. She most likely has not seen her daughter
since the school term has started. When we realized that we were going to Joska
later in the week, we were able to make a quick video on our phone of this
mother sending a message to her daughter. It is our hope that we find the
student so that we can share the video with her.
It is moments like those that remind me of the human
connections that we all yearn for. Despite all of the differences that are
between us, we are more alike than we realize.
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