{FECA Vision Choir} Report 11

Tuesday, July 19. Starting our new routine, we met for devotions at 6:30 AM and went to eat breakfast at 7:15-ish, leaving our hotel at 8:30 and arriving at Peniel a little after 9. We set up for VBS and the children came about 9:45. Kat and Gentle, who is having stomach problems stayed at the office to rest. During VBS, the Kim's and Huang's had the privilege to attend the graduation ceremony of the seamstress students. They had actually finished last week and today is graduation (so the clothes they are sewing for Vision is not really their final exam but one of their first earnings). Some shared how learning to sew has transformed their lives and given them self worth. In a week, one lady said she is made 1000 rupees ($15) with her husband taking her product to a store and another saying she charges 60 rupees for a dress top and 100 rupees if it is lined for labor. The teacher who took our measurements yesterday travels weekly to the villages these ladies come from to teach the one year class. We looked at the very impressive curriculum, over 30 different types of outfits have to be completed by the students. In visiting the villages, this teacher also brings the love of Jesus and some have come to believe. 28 students were able to come to today's ceremony. After graduation, we then had the honor to meet up with their village HIV/AIDS program. Six ladies came along with the nurse who is their coordinator. They shared inspiring stories of how given two three years to live after being tested positive, they are still going strong ten and one lady, twenty years later. One lady shared her thanks for how her husband came to believe before he passed on. These ladies who live in different villages reach out in their communities to the children of adults who have tested positive and also children who have come down with HIV/AIDS. Many of the children of HIV parents have not tested positive. All together, they care for almost 800 children of which about 120 test positive. Several of these ladies asserted their intention to serve these children and follow Jesus until they go home. They are real heroes of the faith impacting their own communities and bring light in their little corner of the world. We joined Vision for lunch served by the school (a genuine non-spicy and delicious lunch), finished up VBS by 2 to do a one hour program from 2:30 to 3:30 for all their high school and older students in their auditorium.

When we walked to the auditorium located above the high school classes, all the students were already seated on the ground neatly in rows, girls on the left facing the front, and guys on the right, youngest in front, with the class teachers seated on chairs at the sides leaving a nice aisle in the middle and the dignitaries (that's us with some school officials) sitting on chairs at the rear. There were about 400 there. After a quick introduction and welcome, we were given the time. Singing almost all our acapella songs and one VBS song, we mixed in powerful testimonies form Katie, Gentle, and Michael, the puppet and heart skits. No sermon or invitation were given but the message was clearly transmitted and seemed very well received by all the students. The heart skit was probably their favorite once they figured out the plot and were surprised by the twists which they had not anticipated, with a clear non-verbal invitation given at the end, while the puppet skit resonated with many of the student who have alcoholic fathers who squander his wife's meager earnings on drink. We were both saddened and happy when it was over: sad because we could not spend time ministering to those who may have wanted prayer, and happy to go to a cooler room downstairs and sit a spell. We returned to our hotel before 5 PM with Nehi, Paulus' son, while Tim and Kloe went with Paulus and Rosie to visit a tutorial center in a nearby village. Because many of the students' parents were illiterate, the tutorial center was another opportunity to minister to the family of these students while helping the children with their studies. Tim said he was amazed at how well organized the tutoring was, reaching (I think) over 800 kids,

We left at 6:30 to go to dinner at a Chinese restaurant, And after 45 minutes, arrived at a place which is now a tandoori restaurant, so we went to another place, Chopstix where we met Tim and Paulus (Kloe returned earlier to the hotel) for a simple and definitely not gourmet Chinese food. Returning to the hotel, we debriefed the day, praising God for another good day.

Wilcox Chapel ministry at Lady Dory College

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