After 18 hours of bumps, little sleep, only 2 toilet breaks, my visa being stuck in naomi's passport, some awesome views of tanzanian plains and masi villages we made it to Nemy's (our leader's) home in the region of meru near killalla villlage. The house was pretty much in the jungle which was pretty cool but there where loads of mosquito's!
Mama Nemy is pastor of the local church so most of our work was with the church, we did crusades and film showings most days this did mean that we (well the boys) built a stage out the front and i'm pleased to say this one was sturdyer than the one in kenya! We also visited a compassion international school's graduation and got a change to minister there in the form of the everything skit. We also visited anotheer church, after ariving 2 hours late we got breakfast, kate prached amazingly it was all about being friends with God and was deffinaly the preach that spoke to me most from the whole of outreach! We then got lunch twice and hiked a mountain and lost the window of the taxi bus! We also served at an oraphanged cooking, cleaning and decorating, me and Tess made posters of the kids rooms to give them coloura and make the rooms more homely! We also spent a bit of time going door to door with the church members and praying for them and their needs and just blessing the homes, it's one of the few things in ministry that you KNOW that even when you leave a mark will be left and blessing will continue to flow on families!
The moment that spoke to me most at Nemy's was during a crusade when me and Becca we're sitting with 2 sisiters Happy (age 8 with learning disabilities) and Angel her little sister, as i sat with Angel i got to see how she craved attention and how she was a little bundle of fun and joy that just wanted someone to play with, so we played row row your boat and had tickle fights and she was a model in my sunglasses! My favourite ministry from the whole of outreach was putting together packages for 2 families which included food and clothes,this meant i spenf a few hours in the African market wheere clothes where all less than £1 and we got so much for the girls, it was crazy and packed but i LOVED it and it was so great knowing we were getting things for people when you know they are going to be beyond greatful!
Our worship and prayer times while we were there were also relaly encouraging, God really spoke of our days of prayer and fasting to our team and to indiciduals, we recieved directions and encrouagement, it was a real reminder that God is personal and intimate with us and that he has a plan for each on of us even during the challenging times that when we don't undertand why things happen or what will happen next God calls us for a reason and we just have to trust in him because as Jeremiah 29:11 says "For i know the plans i have for you, they are plans for good to give you hope and a good future" we knew that God has called each one of us to be there and so there was a purpose for it and God would protect us and teach us through everthing that was or wasn't happening!!! It's so easy to get caught up in the drama's of liife, thinking about when you will next sleep or eat that we forget about our relationship with God, but sitting in the scilence with God is so freeing and releasing, God can just speak to you and bring healing and forgiveness!!
Sickness hit again week 5 and Becca's sick bucket became my sick bucket, but luckly i didn't get it as bad as Becca who spent all night throwing up and ended up in hospital with dehydration. But PTL after 1 night in hospital she came home safe!
During our stay in tanzania we got to go into Arusha which was pretty crazy, lots bigger than Jinja town that we're used to and we did get lost once but we were pretty impressed with our getting in and out of town abilities considering that none of us spoke swahili and non of them spoke english!! we did however find a supermarket and some nice cafe's which made a nice reak from luch of posho and beans that we ate for a week straight!!
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