We had a great weekend

The Omega Worship Centre was here for Friday evening Saturday and Sunday morning. WOW what a great group of God lovers. If you can't tell they are an Indian congregation. Now I don't know about you, but I have always thought of the Indian population as a Muslim and Hindu group. I think that is the background but...... let me tell you these people praised God with lifted hands held high. What a joy to be with them and serve them, although I think they served us more that we did them. Do you know how spicy Indian food is? not to them but to this little American gal-- hot stuff. On Friday evening they invited us to share their meal I explained that we were not use to hot food and the at curry was not our friend, if you know what I mean. On Saturday at noon as I was checking to make sure all was ok the gave me a small pan with chicken currie in it...

"Don't worry", they said, "we have made this especially for you it has no spice and no curry."

How kind. They were cooking for 50 and took the time to fix something for us. I tell you this so you will have some idea of how they Loved. As I spoke with Gloria she reminded me that we are all, as the bible says, Gentiles, but God extended his love to us. We are to love one another in the same way, so that makes us sisters. I probably spoke with half of them on an individual basis and it was true we were family.

We went to the Sunday morning service, the pastor spoke from his favorite book in the bible Philippians (background). This group had called and canceled their camp last month with really no explanation I found out that they had several deaths and also a number of serious hospitalizations and just felt under the circumstances they couldn't manage the trip. Three of the families that had deaths were here being loved on and one of the sick people was released form the hospital on Friday and was here on Saturday. The sermon, short version, "we have been given the privilege of trusting Christ and also the privilege of suffering for Him, we are in this together. " A clear reminder that we will go through struggles...the key word is through, and not alone. You can't even imagine the testimonies that people gave that had just gone through the loss of someone close and are still walking through. He reminded us that we must press on. Anyway, it was good and touched many hearts, including mine.




I am in awe when I think of the dual ministry there is here at Sunbury. Looking back at the past years schedule Sunbury has had about 50% Indian camps, 40% Black and 10% White (that's just a guess) and that isn't even counting ZEBS or the Zion camps. Since January, we have had about 1000 campers again not including ZEBS or Zion camps. I have watched as people have been refreshed, renewed and some touched for the first time. This is a great place to be if you want to see God at work. I know that ZEMA is primarily about the Zionists, but God is about everyone and He's using Sunbury for His purposes. All I can say is Praise His Name !!

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Thank you for your faithfulness.

Can you remember the big green machine (tractor ) that we asked you to pray about? Well then you will remember that God answered us by letting it die for good, no more to be fixed! Then you partnered with us in praying for a replacement? GOD is good, all the time!

Here is the answer to that prayer :) we are thrilled and thankful. It was delivered yesterday. Why is it that we are always surprised when God listens to us and grants our requests and yet in His answers we are strengthened in our faith. For the longest time, with the tractor, we began to think His answer might be no, use what I have already given you, fix it again. But through His love and your prayers we now have something that will, hopefully , stand the test of time.

Finances have been advanced to us for the purchase, and we are looking forward to seeing the rest of our prayer answered, I think we have now raised about $3,000 toward the purchase price, only about 12,000 to go. Isn't it exciting to see God at work through His children. I hope this will strengthen you, as it has us, in the knowledge that He will supply our needs at His good pleasure.



Home sweet home.




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Laundry Room

Do you remember a while back I told you, I think I did anyway, that Carlene had decided to turn the old laundry room into a break room for the ladies? Well I have finally taken a couple of pictures for you to see. There is still chair rail to put up but other than that it is complete. I know it looks grayish in the first picture, but it is really a deep brown more like the bottom picture. The ladies have really been enjoying it... Well, only on the weekends they don't takes breaks during the regular work week. On the right in the picture, you can see there is a two seater sofa and on the left side of the room there are two chairs. Usually there are only three ladies on the weekends, it's nice for them to be able to get out of the kitchen when the camp cooks are busy. It was a very thoughtful idea... Thank you Carlene from all the ladies.



As you can see the back half is still used for storage of the extra supplies: blankets, duvet covers and innards, pillows and pillow cases and the monthly cleaning supplies as well. Needless to say it is a well used area.



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Sobonan ( good morning or afternoon which ever the case might be)

Well there isn't really anything too photo worthy happening lately, sorry : ( I have been doing very un noteworthy things: laundry, sewing, washing tables, In general, just trying to help out the ladies. It's really for me not them, they don't need me not one little bit, but I just like being with them.They are trying to teach me a little zulu, I emphasize trying. I'm a slow learner and the clicks and clucks I just cannot seem to get. Well something good is coming from it ...they get a good laugh.

As for my beloved he is, of course, always busy. One of the camps, somehow, broke the wooded barrier, we had to keep them from parking in between the dorms. So of course, Howard got right on it. The pix below will give you a glimpse of what he came up with. A metal post, filled with concrete surrounded by concrete. It should fill the bill, just a little painting to finish up.




If you look near the roof you can see that there was once an awning over the concrete pad. It was held up by two post but when Howard tried to attach the chain to the post it fell and the awning came with it. Fortunately Howard has, yes I did say it, a hard head ( n more ways that one). He is fine and had no lasting injuries. He was able to find a yellow florescent paint and a red reflective tape for striping. It looks pretty good for an old man :) if I'm not mistaking this is the oldest building on the grounds. One of the men that came for a camp told me that when he was a boy he went to school in this building and then it was a clinic for the area. He said it was very nostalgic for him. I believe it was then the original chapel for the camp years ago before it belonged to ZEMA.





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pix from our trip

I thought you might like to see a few pix from our trip to Imfloze. We all had a great time. Maria is the one who saw the elephant, she yelled out, "Stop Stop There is a big rock moving!" They were so excited to see the animals. I forget that we have it so good in the states. There are plenty of zoos for us and our kids. These ladies had never seen any of these animals before.




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Sorry it's been so long but Internet has been ???

We now have a new company and things are much better. Anyway, Zandi called me one day last week, I think it was Wednesday, and asked me if I would sew something for her, I have offered to do some repairs for the ladies so I thought it was something like that. When she arrived here she was with her fiancé and handed me a bag of fabric. I was a little taken back, her fiancé needed a new Zion robe before Friday. oh my, you might not know this but they don't use patterns here and I am definitely a pattern person. They did bring me his old one so I asked if I could take it apart and use it to make the new one, they agreed. I told her I wasn't sure if I could do it, "I have faith in you," Well that made me feel good, but it didn't convince me that I could do it. The old one had a small cross maybe an inch and a half... But this time they wanted a larger, much larger cross, and two stars one on each shoulder blade. Well I did my best and here is the result.








They were very happy with it and I'm now making two more. One more for Xolane and one for Maruis. I am still a little nervous but at least I know it is possible .
Our time is passing quickly and there is still a lot to do we only have 36 more days until we leave!
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