This weekend was the Limpopo Easter Conference where we spent Fri. Sat. and Sun. with about 2,000 people from Limpopo. Sarah and I ate with them, slept with them, bathed liked them, and spent time with them. It was such an awesome time! We arrived on Friday and had 3 services that day. Each service was an African service so probably about 4 hours long, but every service is 4 hours of joy! Singing, dancing, laughing, praying, and hearing the word. Each day we had a meal which consisted of pop (which is mealie meal, not soda.), chicken wings (cooked their way which is amazing), and there was some beef. I love African meals there are great. I don't know that anyone fixes chicken better.
Saturday the electricity went out during the second service, but again that didn't stop them they can't singing, dancing, and praising the Lord! I love it! Saturday night was the youth service and it was amazing. We were able to train the youth in an interpretive dance to "Arise My Love" and one of our African friends said this song was amazing and it gave him a new perspective on the resurrection! Also the youth had a mass choir and sang "Through It All" and an african song. i will be posting these. They were amazing. Also, at the end of the service the altar was full of youth wanting to get rid of the rubble in their lives.
Saturday night I was desperate to wash my hair & bathe so I went to get water. The wat
er in the restrooms was not working so I went to a spicket at the otherside of the lodge, no water was coming out of that either, I then walked a little further and found another spicket and there was no water coming out of it either, on my way back one of the spickets had started working and there was some water trickling out of it so i put my bucket there and got about an inch of water in the bucket. I returned to my room and managed to wash my hair in this bucket. People were apologizing that we had to deal with those conditions but I thought it was so cool. I actually washed my hair in a bucket with an inch of water!
er in the restrooms was not working so I went to a spicket at the otherside of the lodge, no water was coming out of that either, I then walked a little further and found another spicket and there was no water coming out of it either, on my way back one of the spickets had started working and there was some water trickling out of it so i put my bucket there and got about an inch of water in the bucket. I returned to my room and managed to wash my hair in this bucket. People were apologizing that we had to deal with those conditions but I thought it was so cool. I actually washed my hair in a bucket with an inch of water!We had such a great time this weekend! I will end this with a funny story. We were singing a song and as they were singing I kept hearing them singing "in my underwear, in my underwear" i knew that this is not what they were saying so i bent over to ask my friend what was being said and he said they were singing "Emmanuel, Emmanuel". He said why what did you think they were saying. So I told him and Sarah and they were laughing so hard. They said that's all the could hear after that as well. I started singing with them just so I would hear the right words. LOL!
I pray your Easter services went great! Thank you for your prayers!
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