Another day with Team 14..

Today we started the day with the delicious smell of mandazas being freshly baked by Juliet and Alice, our beautiful cooks. When we finished breakfast we got geared up to go to work up in the village of hope. We only got one course of bricks up on the house today as we only worked a half day. We finished up at the work site at 11:30 and headed back to Suubi house for lunch. After lunch we got cleaned up and organised and headed to visit Fred and Judith who run divine holistic ministries to do home visits. Our team broke up into four groups and each group visited two homes giving to each home one kilo of sugar and a long bar of soap to people in need of such simple products that we take for granted back home. When we visited the homes of the people who kindly invited us in we were able to deliver their gifts, hear their testimonies and pray for them. I think I can speak for everyone when I say that we all were very moved by their testimonies and how appreciative they were that we visited and gave them gifts. After the home visits we gathered with the women of the community that made everyone feel so welcome as they greeted us with singing and dancing. Everyone from the team introduced themselves and Andrew shared an encouraging message to the women of the community. We handed out sugar and soap to the women and clothes for them to have and the smiles on their faces was a truly a blessing to see. As we finished up the team split up and prayed for the women, most of them didn't speak English and couldn't understand what we were praying about but still appreciate every word we were saying. The day came to a finish and the team sat down together and we reflected on our thoughts and feelings on the day. Everyone took something different from the home visits and it was nice to hear everyone's own special impressions. I think the whole team agreed on one thing, that it was so beautiful to see the people so grateful and how far a little gesture such as sugar, soap, a visit and a simple pray can change someones life.