Monday, April 23, 2007
update from Christy in Rwanda and Burundi
YFC, Milking, and Rwanda
Hello home! I'm in Kigali, Rwanda. My team and I just arrived last night via a long bumpy taxi ride from Gitega, Burundi. The last few days in Burundi we spent at an orphanage run by Youth For Christ. The work that YFC is doing there is incredible - they are currently running a home for 13 children orphaned from the war and HIV/AIDS. They are pioneering a new mission to affect the surrounding commuinity which involves building a primary school, a training centre and an extension on the orphanage to take in more kids. Our team helped the construction by hauling bricks and then hung out with the kids too. 13 kids all under the age of 5 = some pretty good times.
Oh, and I can't forget... YFC has a bit of a farm and I was out there, helping with the milking. It was great to be out in the crazy jungles of Burundi, milking cows. I loved it! One night I was out there milking, it was dusk, just after dinner. We had just had the little calf in there drinking from its mama to get the milk started and I was sitting on a little wooden chair, my head rested against the mom's side thinking, 'man, I could do this everyday'. Africa is wonderful and I am so Albertan. Woo who!
Now our team is back at the YWAM base in Kigali, Rwanda, getting ready for the adventure here. Thanks for all of your prayers! Oh and an update on the break in and stolen items: It looks like its going to become more complicated. There are a lot of details that I wont go into here but basically the hotel is being held responsible for what happened because of the safety of the rooms and the placement of the theives (the theives that robbed us were in rooms right beside ours so it looks like an inside job). However, the hotel is not willing to take responsibility so some legal action might be required. Right now, I continue to be concerned about our team... now that we've left Burundi, it seems to be really sinking in that we've lost some valuable items, some that represent a lot of hard work (laptops), and its discouraging. Thank you so much for your prayers as we press through. I really want to ask God for a miracle - that what was lost would be recovered.
Lots of love, Christy
Hello home! I'm in Kigali, Rwanda. My team and I just arrived last night via a long bumpy taxi ride from Gitega, Burundi. The last few days in Burundi we spent at an orphanage run by Youth For Christ. The work that YFC is doing there is incredible - they are currently running a home for 13 children orphaned from the war and HIV/AIDS. They are pioneering a new mission to affect the surrounding commuinity which involves building a primary school, a training centre and an extension on the orphanage to take in more kids. Our team helped the construction by hauling bricks and then hung out with the kids too. 13 kids all under the age of 5 = some pretty good times.
Oh, and I can't forget... YFC has a bit of a farm and I was out there, helping with the milking. It was great to be out in the crazy jungles of Burundi, milking cows. I loved it! One night I was out there milking, it was dusk, just after dinner. We had just had the little calf in there drinking from its mama to get the milk started and I was sitting on a little wooden chair, my head rested against the mom's side thinking, 'man, I could do this everyday'. Africa is wonderful and I am so Albertan. Woo who!
Now our team is back at the YWAM base in Kigali, Rwanda, getting ready for the adventure here. Thanks for all of your prayers! Oh and an update on the break in and stolen items: It looks like its going to become more complicated. There are a lot of details that I wont go into here but basically the hotel is being held responsible for what happened because of the safety of the rooms and the placement of the theives (the theives that robbed us were in rooms right beside ours so it looks like an inside job). However, the hotel is not willing to take responsibility so some legal action might be required. Right now, I continue to be concerned about our team... now that we've left Burundi, it seems to be really sinking in that we've lost some valuable items, some that represent a lot of hard work (laptops), and its discouraging. Thank you so much for your prayers as we press through. I really want to ask God for a miracle - that what was lost would be recovered.
Lots of love, Christy
