{FECA Vision Choir} Report 4

Tuesday July 12 - We met a sleepy Calida at breakfast (buffet breakfast at the hotel is easily our best meal of the day, eggs, chicken sausage, cooked to order omelet, sautéed mixed veggies, melons and papaya - really our veggies and fruit for the whole day - lots of Indian goodies, fresh squeezed grape juice grown locally, and several other breads, yogurt, cereal, etc.). We moved our small group devotion to after breakfast, so we can start the day fresh with the Lord rather than at the end of the day when we are too tired and rushed to spend quality time with Him and our devo time has been much better. This meant leaving a half hour later to the orphanage but our time there is fairly flexible. Our VBS program had to be modified from our original plans because we found out there are frequent random rolling blackouts throughout the day, so we eliminated the kidvid cinema aspect of VBS, but the children here are so thrilled with their time they couldn't care less there was no video. Before we left the orphanage today, we stopped and dedicated the computer room (we had carried 13 laptops Tim had bought at last November's Black Friday sale) and sang the Lord blessing for the place.

While the team went back to the hotel to rest up and practice the puppet skit, Marshall and Meiring went with Tim and Pastor Joel to visit a house they had rented located about 20 minutes from the orphanage site. Not he plan is to house the boys here by the end of the month and keep the girls further away as some of the boys are reaching adolescence. Because of the landlord problems at the orphanage, a new location might also be needed for the girls as mentioned in the last report. Due to traffic, the three of us did not return to the hotel until 5. We left at six to a "Gypsy" church, so called because it ministers to migrant workers. It is a very poor church, and the worship even more exotic to our western ears but tremendous. How God will be pleased when all the ethne (nations, ethnic groups) worship together. There were no pianos or keyboard here as over a hundred gathered so we sang only acapella pieces, failing to take advantages of Calida's skills. Kayla and Ethan gave wonderful testimonies of trusting in Jesus and atom preached powerfully. But a strange thing happened at the end of the service, as a couple brought a birthday cake to celebrate their son's second birthday. This broke the spiritual atmosphere so even though many came for prayer, it just felt oddly different. Tim said we quenched the Spirit because of the bad timing. Pray for restoration and more spiritual covering for us as well as the pastor and this Gypsy church. Clearly, there is ongoing spiritual warfare.

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