Friday, February 29, 2008

The Living Hope Retreat

We facilitated a retreat for the life skills educators and counselors of Living Hope yesterday and today...we have quite a few activities as well as songs planned for Thursday evening. Of couse, being in Africa, not going according to plan appears to be par for the course, but it was a great time of worship and praise! And everyone had a great time. I have to say it's pretty funny to watch Steve improvising amid the spontaneous praises and speeches.

On Friday, we managed to get volleyball, rock-climbing, and painting running as planned and reconvened as one group with more praise. And the food...it was a feast, everyone was well-fed and enjoyed the company.

Words cannot even begin to describe their singing and dancing. I will not leave a long post today, I will just leave you a video.

2 comments:

Lesli said...

I was not able to open your video but can vividly see and hear the dancing and singing from last year and imagine it sounds much the same. Know that you guys are prayed for. Please let the people know that they have not been forgotten by the team last year and are still in our thoughts and prayers. If you come across Lorna, give her a big hug from Lesli!

piesang said...

Steve, I grew up with Zulu singing often heard in many places, and to hear the singing at Living Hope brings back floods of memories of my childhood and youth