It is currently February 6th and I’m about to do another day of ministry. I’m just going to explain what we do each day and what I have learned throughout the first week. On mondays we do ATL days which stands for, ask the Lord day. This means that we walk around town and have the Holy Spirit guide us through our day and pray for people we feel led to pray for. Then tuesday through friday we do ministry which is when we love on sweet kiddos! So how this squad works is there are 2 teams within the squad. So me and 9 other people including the squad leader, shout out Khurry, go to one carepoint. The other 10 people go to another care point. Yes, we are split up and yes its hard not doing ministry with the other team all the time but its so fun when we do hangout with them.
The first week of ministry was so amazing, hot, and exhausting but the love and joy of Jesus was so present during that week. I pray that it will be more evident this week. I pray that we can bring joy and so much hope into these kids’ hearts throughout our time here at the care point.
At the carepoint we love on kids and play with them. I’ve played tag, some football(soccer) but the one thing that I have done alot is sitting and holding these kids. They truly just want to be held and loved on. I’ve had many kids fall asleep on me and both my legs fall asleep. But the one thing that keeps me sitting there when I’m sweating in the heat and everything is hurting, is relizing that I do not know what they are going home to. Like I don’t know what there sleeping on at night, I don’t know what there family life is like I just don’t know. All I do know is I’m here to love and bring joy and hope to these sweet kids. I am called to love like Jesus and just keep pouring into these kids lives. I’ve learned alot from them. I’ve watched them play. I’ve watched them laugh. There little giggles melt my heart. They just are the most precious kids in the world and its so hard to leave them. The first day we did ministry a little boy fell asleep in my lap like 5 min before we had to leave and let me tell you it was so hard to leave. I just wanted to let him sleep and let him feel all the love I have for him and all the love Jesus has for him. But its ok I see them basically everyday which is such a blessing.
While being in Africa I’ve learned that I take so many things for granted. I’m coming from a home with a roof over my head, a bed to sleep and a family who supports and loves me. Here lots of these kids may not have a loving family and they have holes in there clothes and you don’t know what there sleeping on. The thing is everyone is so happy here. There always smiling. They get so excited when we say hi to them in there language and then they love talking to us. They are teaching me that just saying hi to somebody can truly change there whole day. Another thing is I’m learning that expectations need to die. Thats all I’m going to say. I’m also learning that I need to lean more into Jesus and die to myself. I need to not fous on what people think of me. I’m scared that anything I do is wrong and personally when I say things I have to think about it for along time before I say it so its not wrong. But I’m slowly learning that its ok to be wrong and thats how you learn. Anyway thats what God has been teaching me. One of the things many of us have been saying is “count it all joy”. No matter the situation good or bad count it all joy! I love the worldrace and am so so grateful for my squad leaders and I absolutely love them with my whole heart.
I love you all very much! Thank you for your prayers!
Blessings,
Molly Randall
