{FECA Vision Choir} Report 7

Tuesday, 7/4. Happy Independence Day, America!

After breakfast, we met to do our devos and left to go to Peniel School arriving before ten. Nicole is still fighting a cold, and cannot sing due to congestion and a low fever but when she takes one Tylenol, her fever gets to close to normal. Like last year, we taught VBS to a fifth grade class (of 36) and those not participating were busy in the other room cutting the crafts to be used later in the lesson plan. Even our bus driver joined in with scissors (and he sits in on all our concerts). It is very hot and humid here, at least 90 and maybe close to 100 at the afternoon venue. We ended the VBS at noon, ate lunch at the school and headed out to Keswick Public School (public means anyone can attend, but it is a private owned school) where we did a short one hour program starting at 2 PM to about 200 ten to twelve year old kids and about ten teachers packed in their (no A/C) chapel, Mari playing on an old piano with a non-working sustain piano. Jordan and Nancy shared their testimonies (Jordan about confirmation of her future career direction and Nancy how pr'yer helped her learn math), we did the missing pieces skit and Mari spoke and played a piano excerpt depicting an icy cold landscape and challenged to kids to guess where she came from. They correctly said Finland! We ended the program teaching them two VBS songs and even got the teachers in the saris to "get down and boogie". It is a hot (literally) but fun time. We then hurried back home, thankful for a bus with A/C because we met up with six Seeds members from Madurai, who finished their classes for the day. We practiced in our hotel lobby because we were not given permission to use an adjacent meeting room (for free). We did a mini-Vision orientation and taught them Praise His Holy Name, reviewed Lamb of God, Heaven Came Down among other songs. The music teaching team did a great job when they were here in May. We then walked to Lady Doak College, five minutes down the street from our hotel where we did our program (from 6:30-8) at their volunteer chapel service to over a hundred students. We repeated our missing piece skit and Janet from Madurai and Rachel shared their testimonies, and Mari spoke again. Tim closed the meeting by asking those wanting pr'yer to come forward. At first, the students were reluctant, but eventually a couple of girls came a knelt, and soon we were kept busy with probably twenty or so students coming (it was hard to keep count) because they would return to their seats after receiving pr'yer). We then walked to their cafeteria where we were served dinner and during dinner we shared. For many of the locals, it was the first time they had blessed anyone and they were so happy and excited they could do that. Joanne who travelled with us had an impression of the word "suicide", boldly asked and the student confirmed she had thought about it. Several asked to be remembered for health issues for themselves or their relatives, restoration of relationships both horizontally and vertically, and of course, their studies. We walked home at about 9:00 to say good bye our new team members until tomorrow and prepared for sleep, after a long, hot, tiring but exhilarating day of ministry.

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