We are a group of young couples from Valley Church in West Des Moines, Iowa who have felt God's call to help The Pines Christian Care Center for Children in Welkom, South Africa as they care for children who have been orphaned by the AIDS Pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Friday, April 06, 2007
Kevin Barber This is going to be a short post because it has been a long day, and we got back late from dinner at Ruan's. Everyone is packing and getting ready for bed, which just leaves me (Kevin) to write :-)
Our last workday was today and we got the flat finished before lunch and the afternoon was devoted to cleaning up. Everything came together quickly and it looks very good now that it is finished.
The girls dyed Easter Eggs this afternoon with the kids and we are leaving behind Easter baskets for them to open on Sunday.
As I mentioned earlier, we went to Ruan and Lindie's house for supper tonight - they fed us authentic South African food with excellent dessert (couldn't tell you the names of most of it, but it was very good).
As you probably already know (or have figured out) we will be leaving tomorrow - our flight is at 6:45 local time (subtract 7 hours for Central time). We'll leave for Johannesburg around 8am and spend the day in the area probably shopping and possibly visiting the Apartheid Museum.
Lastly, I want to mention that I am planning on posting a slide show of our pictures from the trip. Between Kindra and myself (the two photographers of the group) our current count of pictures is 1283, so we definitely need a bit of time to put it all together. Keep watching the blog for the link to that. I also will try to post some of my favorite pictures directly on the blog when we get back (as time allows).
So much for the short post :-)
Kevin
Scripture chapter of the day 1 Corinthians 3
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Kevin Barber This is going to be a short post because it has been a long day, and we got back late from dinner at Ruan's. Everyone is packing and getting ready for bed, which just leaves me (Kevin) to write :-)
Our last workday was today and we got the flat finished before lunch and the afternoon was devoted to cleaning up. Everything came together quickly and it looks very good now that it is finished.
The girls dyed Easter Eggs this afternoon with the kids and we are leaving behind Easter baskets for them to open on Sunday.As I mentioned earlier, we went to Ruan and Lindie's house for supper tonight - they fed us authentic South African food with excellent dessert (couldn't tell you the names of most of it, but it was very good).
As you probably already know (or have figured out) we will be leaving tomorrow - our flight is at 6:45 local time (subtract 7 hours for Central time). We'll leave for Johannesburg around 8am and spend the day in the area probably shopping and possibly visiting the Apartheid Museum.
Lastly, I want to mention that I am planning on posting a slide show of our pictures from the trip. Between Kindra and myself (the two photographers of the group) our current count of pictures is 1283, so we definitely need a bit of time to put it all together. Keep watching the blog for the link to that. I also will try to post some of my favorite pictures directly on the blog when we get back (as time allows).
So much for the short post :-)
Kevin
Scripture chapter of the day 1 Corinthians 3
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