I just watched England get butchered at the hands of Germany – depressing stuff. I could write about how pathetic England’s defence were, or how (at best) completely unremarkable Wayne Rooney and David James have been, but I think it’d be more interesting to catch you up on what we’ve been up to in the week!
Last week we were running a Holiday Bible Club (from here-on in HBC) at Matchana. I’ve probably spelt that wrong, but hey ho. It was a cold, grey day here on monday, and as we arrived we didn’t expect great things, as Zulus don’t like to go out when it’s cold! And, as expected, we arrived to greet a grand total of about 2 children! As it was the first time the church has ever hosted anything like that, I don’t think it’d really managed to get out so well – so the pastor went round all the houses and told the kids to come! We ended up with 120!
Our sunday school timetable involves an ‘Object Lesson’ (a pictoral example to explain a biblical principle), a Jungle Dr story, a Bible story, a quiz, a memory verse, and then some games, all punctuated with a healthy smattering of songs: some english, some zulu.
We had an average of 80-90 kids each day I think, which felt just about right for our flucutating entourage of about 6-7 leaders. We all swapped around jobs and slots, which meant we all got a go at most things.
It's story time! The pastor translates into zulu...
Cool! It's one of those socks-into-bucket quizzes!
Suddenly everyone knows the answer! Well almost everyone...
Okay, there's definitely some cheating going on here!
Who wants to hold a balloon for the memory verse? Uh-oh - everybody!
That's more like it.
Games time! The older kids seem to be having some ridiculous sort of relay race...
...the younger kids are getting stuck into a game of duster hockey...
...meanwhile the dinkies are doing some colouring - yayyyy!
So who's coming back tomorrow!?
I think it’s safe to say we all really enjoyed the week! We’re doing something of a repeat act at Nseleni this week, so I’ll update you on that later on in the week.
On top of an exciting week of HBC, we were also treated by Gavin and Elaine to a once (or twice, in Lydia’s case) in a lifetime experience in the form of a boat-trip at St Lucia on saturday! Guess what we saw first hand…
Not bad eh? You can click any of the last 3 pictures to see a super hi-res version! I’ve been having a fiddle with Photoshop’s ‘Panorama’ feature, so you may find five legged-two headed hippos and stuff…but I think they look good?!
Anyway, the week has flown past. It’s sad now thinking we’re only here for another 3 – needless to say I think we’re gonna make the most of it!
Hope to be in touch again soon,
Lewis
Glad to hear that Zulu HBCs are not too unlike English ones, and that the first one went so well. Hope God continues to bless you all through your last couple of weeks.