{"id":4023,"date":"2025-05-28T16:39:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T23:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jessup.edu\/globaloutreach\/?p=4023"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T23:39:33","slug":"update-3-southern-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessup.edu\/globaloutreach\/2025\/05\/update-3-southern-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Update #3 Southern Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Day 2 of our VBS! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We started this morning with a delicious breakfast made by Lucy. She prepared us beans on toast, yogurt, tea, and eggs. The food has been amazing here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We started at 8am by helping pass out meals to the kids. At 9am we had our team leader meeting. We finished Philippians 1 which taught us about being joyful in hard times like when Paul was locked up but joyful that the word of God was still being spread. It was a great way to start our morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that, we started morning worship and introduced the theme for the day. \u201cGet God\u2019s Love\u201d and the \u201cLost Sheep\u201d story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the day, the children were becoming more comfortable around me and Teagan. Calling us Auntie Holly and Auntie Teagan. It warmed my heart. A great way we were able to connect with them was asking them to teach us words in Shona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of today\u2019s games was Gagaball. It was so fun to play for the first time. I absolutely loved it. We also had an intense giant Jenga tournament of which the Purple team won (Olivia and Alyssa\u2019s team)!!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At night, it was time for us to lead the bedtime story. We decided to share the 3 little pigs fable. I played the pig that built their house out of brick. Noah did a great job narrating the story and tying it back to what life is like trusting and giving your life to God compared to not even knowing God. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s really awesome is that the local team leaders are all around the same age as us. We are spending the night tonight with our debrief of sharing our highs and lows and teaching the local team Uno and Spoons.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holly <3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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