Chesvega
I love that smile!
Whitney and me with some of the kids after church.
So for church we each shared our testimony and something God had been revealing to us in scripture lately. Whitney took one for the team and went first, then Sloan, then me. I shared 1 Corinthians 10: 12-13 "So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it." After we all three shared the pastor came up and reiterated what we said. Worshiping in Louisvaleweg was a bit of a different experience. They don't have sound systems or instruments or screens with the words or even hymnals but they sure do know how to worship and make their own music. Maybe you didn't know but the Bible also doubles quite effectively as an instrument. They would hold their Bibles and beat on them with their other hand for the music. Also if their was any pause in talking or praying someone would start up in song.
The pastor of the church and I think that is his wife.
The church building.
The second time I went to church at Louisvaleweg was with John and Liz, Lindsay, Sloan, and Eddy. Eddy preached. He preached on lukewarm Christians and how we are not called to be lukewarm but to be either hot or cold. We also had the Lord's supper that Sunday. Funny story from that. The guy who was passing out the bread on out side of the church passed Lindsay and the lady next to her more than once. Lindsay kind of raised her hand to try and get his attention and he started coming back but went to someone else. I don't know how many times he just kept passing them right up. Liz asked me, "How big is your piece?" I showed her and we both broke ours in half and gave the other half to Lindsay and the lady next to her.
Eddy preaching
We spent one day playing with the children in Louisvaleweg. Ethan was at someone's house giving piano lessons and Whitney went there to play with the kids there.Eddy, I don't remember where he went but I don't remember him being with the rest of us. The rest of us went to the church yard to play with kids. We blew bubbles for a while then we sang songs and just had fun with them Lindsay was playing soccer with a group of kids. Petrus told a story, Daniel and the Lion's Den, and every time he said Daniel the kids said, "Praise the Lord," and every time he said lion the kids roared. When we were just about to leave the police came to see what was going on. John started trying to explain and all he had to do was mention Hanah Milo's name. I guess she is so well known, known as being a Christian women, that that was all it took. John also said that while we were playing somebody came up and thanked us for what we were doing with the kids.
Morgan and me teaching some of the girls to play slide (Megan's photo)
Father Abraham (Megan's photo)
Petrus telling Daniel and the Lion's Den (Morgan's photo)
We also had a ladies tea one day with the ladies in the church. Much like the tea at Rosedale, but we had the one at Louisvaleweg first. Lindsay led a Bible study on Esther. Towards the end of tea we each prayed individually with the women.
Ladies' Tea (Megan's photo)
We also prayer walked through Louisvaleweg once. The group I was with while walking only got to talk with a couple of people. One guy we talked with told us that his son was murdered a couple of weeks ago and his body was found in the ditch.
There is a lot of darkness in Louisvaleweg. Louisvaleweg so desperately needs prayer.
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