Football match/my bed time story.
On Wednesday afternoon Hope Centre played an orphanage camp, camp Chaika. Their director arrived smoking which did not bode well. We have to be very carefull during the match; if we make it sound too competitive their might be a riot! Lena who leads worship did the commentating with her usual charm and amusement!
Camp Chaika played like a premiership football team; they did not obey the rules and they were bad tempered. One of their players rolled on the floor moaning for five minutes after fouling someone and then started running again! Apparently he has done this all summer. We had referees from our camp and they were having none of it! The other players were pushing and shoving. Thankfully they could not understand them on the pitch. Our team really demonstrated patience and self-control! Thanks to their team work we thrashed them seven – nill! Dino scored 2, Paul 3.
Having beaten Camp Chaika at football we then played them at basketball. With a reputation to make up it was again a very tense and physical match! Sadly their referre was the person who had rolled around on the floor in the football. As you would guess he was very biased. We lost as a result, but with good humour!
In the evening we had craft and made magic picture. This is an amazing craft! The picture is a simple black and white line drawing. But when you pull it out of the frame it becomes a coloured in picture! When people see it they say ‘Wow that’s amazing, how does that work’! The ward one boys (the eldest on camp) thought that this was the highlight of the day!
I (Timothy) do the bedtime story with the ward one boys. They listen really well, but I find it quite hard because they do not give me any feedback. On Tuesday night I tried to do a question and answer session but they did not ask any questions! However they did ask me to do the Joseph story which I started on Tuesday night and carried on the following night.
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Thursday morning saw what we would consider the most important bible lesson of the series. It was "I am forgiven" and was lead by Paul and Dino. The message was simple and beautifully illustrated. In our lives we start off like a empty bag (of which they had one for one of the boys to carry) and as we go through life we do things that are bad. They might be little things like lies- small pebbles, taking things that aren't yours- bigger stone, or maybe even murder- whole bricks. They also explained that your baggage is also things that have been done too you as well as what you have done. The little boy holding the bag was not struggling to lift it as it was filled more and more with stones and rocks. In life we can't carry on with all of this weight, so Jesus came with a way out. If you let him he will take all the stone out of your bag and carry them for you. Simon rounded up by talking through the fact that God can take our hearts of stone, our burdens and give us hearts of flesh. He asked the children that when they are ready, if they want to, to ask God to take away their baggage. The international team then went around praying for the children and laying hands on them. The whole things was amazing. Despite a bit of chitchat, most of the children were sitting in rapt attention listening to all that was said. We never asked which children prayed that prayer but it was clear that God was working in some of them quite powerfully. The children then went back to their wards to talk about things with their councilors, so they could ask questions and pray more if they wanted to. The international team then got to pray for the translators which was so nice to get to do. Without them our work would be much less effective and we would really struggle. So we prayed and God gave each of them a word of encouragement or prophecy. The air was heavy with the Holy spirit- it was amazing, no one wanted to leave. But leave we did to head down for a shorter trip to the sea. Thankfully it wasn't so hot, with a bit of cloud cover. It made the sea freezing to get into but meant that the little energy we all had was not spent so quickly due to the heat. Finally lunch and our team meeting.
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