Monday, July 11 - After an early breakfast, we went to a place which is helping the Sudanese people preserve their culture and music. This very interesting group is doing some very innovative work which will be reported in a later report. We had lunch together and left to go back to Hok Im Tong to do our daily devotion. We have been using studying the different names used in the song "I Am" and asking 6 simple questions (like what I liked about the passage, what I didn't understand, what I learn about God, etc.) and everyone in the team is getting an opportunity to learn to lead theie small groups. Today's passage is about the Lion of Judah and generated much discussion as well as praise. We then left for the orphanage run by the Presbyterian Church. We had expected 50 kids but there were only 26 kids there, about 16 elementary and 10 high school/college kids as many of the children are on holiday (those will are not true orphans) before school starts next week. As planned, we divided into the younger kids and older kids with En leading the younger and Pastor Ben the older with half the Vision team supporting one group or the other. The older kids, after playing the name game, got into some serious sharing with not only Vision but several of the orphans sharing their stories. We realized that although our backgrounds are so different, our struggles are not really very different (divorced parents, etc.) but one young man said his parents reconciled after 15 years of divorce and are now just waiting for him to finish his last year of college so they can be reunited as a family. Another girl shared how her sibling's goal is to reunite as a family, and we realized how much God wants us back in His family too. One poignant sharing is how one girl said she is grateful for all that has happened to her (being brought to this orphanage) because she found Christ here, even though it was not what she would have wished for. Thank God for the 5 older and a similar number of younger kids who raised their hands to indicate their receiving Christ tonight (although all 16 elementary kids prayed the sinner's prayer and said now Jesus is in their hearts when asked that question after prayer. Janine shared how as group leader, one little girl who was kind of the trouble maker in her group of 4 was the one who was praying with the most sincerity at the end. Today was a long and very eventful day, praise God.
One final item of praise. Last night, we asked for prayer that we can go to the women's prison on Thursday morning. Tonight, we just received word that the prison authorities gave us permission to go even on such short notice. We did find out that another church was scheduled to go there Thursday morning so pray for Grandma Wisa, who is trying to negotiate with this church to let us go in their place this week.
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