Wednesday, July 20. We followed our now standard morning routine, devotions and breakfast, finally arriving at Peniel a few minutes after 9. At VBS today, we are going to experiment with not having the fifth grade teachers in the room with their students as they have been doing the first two days. At lunch break, we all agreed that the children were much more responsive (maybe it is because they know us by now) and spontaneous without the teachers there and VBS proceeded much better than the first two days. Soon after VBS started, Rosie took Tim, Kloe, Meiring, and Calida to visit a few AIDS/HIV child's home. They did not return until almost 2:30 so they ate a late lunch while we debriefed today's activities to date. Three different HIV positive families were visited. What was good was how this illness caused many in these families to come to faith. We also heard the story of this nurse who leads the AIDS project. Seventeen years ago, this young lady brought her dying brother to Paulus' father. Helping him find the Lord enabled him to pass away peacefully, this young lady subsequently joined the ministry and she recruited some of the AIDS victims to reach out to others (these are the people we met yesterday). Before returning, they stopped at the vocational school. One good thing this school does is to train the car mechanics as interns of specific car models so they learn hands-on and are valued mechanics when they complete their training and can go to work immediately. Before returning, we stopped to pay respect at the memorial graves of Paulus' parents, and were rewarded by also seeing several monkeys living in the trees nearby. We returned for an hour's rest before leaving at 5 PM for the CSI nursing school chapel.
Arriving at 5:45, we found all the worshippers, both men and women, seated and waiting. Precisely at six, one of them led an opening prayer and they sang two Indian worship songs in the local language. Calida led and directed all our singing and we performed both the distracted and puppet skits with Jordan and Terry sharing their testimonies. As we neared the end of our singing, Tim was nowhere to be found as he was to preach. It turned out he and Paulus were off behind the bushes talking to this pompous lady who was the head of the school. She came very late, and said she had to leave to take care of her son's activities. While put off at first, we came to realize this was God's plan to remove her from the premise so we would be free to minster. After the message, Tim invited the students to come up for prayer. No one moved as this was an experience many of these students with CSI church background was not familiar with. So Paulus came up and asked all the students to bow their heads to pray and for those who wanted prayer to lift their hands. Soon, we were all over the hall praying. Many tears were shed as these students felt the love of God washing over them. One girl had to sit while being prayed for. One lady shared she had problems praying, something was hindering her. When asked if she was a believer, she said no, but wanted to be freed so she came to receive the Lord. After prayer, her countenance changed to one of peace and joy. We went to eat a light dinner of mutton bryana and debriefed the evening's activity in the restaurant. We then returned to the hotel, full of gratitude and praise, to clean up and sleep.
VBS with fifth graders during casual wear day
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