Showers of Blessing

Tuesday 18th August 2009
So today we repeated the range of activities that we put on for the children at Retreat Mountain. But this time, we returned to Cousins Cove. Altogether about 70 children showed up for football, stories, puppet shows, games and crafts...Sister Sarah ran the diabetes clinic alone today, providing much needed dietary advice...Torrential rainfall persisted throughout the day. Nevertheless, Jordan Fyffe and Malachi O' Shea (aged 16 and 15 respectively) continued coaching the football tournament, on the open field, with 35 of the local boys (aged 6 to 15), who were more than happy to oblige! The rest of the children spent most of the day inside the school hall, where the team had to conjure up more songs and stories against the noise of the heavy downpour. And while many might deem such rain as an inconvenience, the Lord really used the day to allow us to make real bonds with the children of Cousins Cove, most of whom were a lot more willing to talk, respond and engage, as compared to our initial visits. While, from the beginning, many of the adults in the community eagerly received us, as you would water in a dry desert land, the children were slightly more reticent. But today that changed! And it has become clear that it is with the children that we must begin 'rebuilding the walls' of this broken nation.