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Posts by Mark Hale

Nasedegu Day 12

This village has quite a history with Hope for the Future and Highland Park, you could tell my teammates had a true heart for this Church and community. We began by meeting at the Pastors home and walked to home where the man did not attend church. His name was Simon and I had a chance to talk with him a little,…

Day 11 Police School and Hospital Visit

Day started rough with some of our teammates, Janine had a rough night recovering from Malaria 1, Ovi went to the Doctor and has Malaria stage 2. On the mission field plans change, Ovi got a call from his high ranking police friend Anderson who wanted us to pass out bibles to the group of workers who didn’t recieve bibles the first…

Day 10 Off to a Safari

Wow, what an adverture. The day did not start so well for our enthusiastic teammate Janine, she was sick through the night and was taken to the doctor in the early afternoon and was diagnosted with Malaria #1. So she got a few meds and will probably be steeping for 2 days. So Janine and Pastor Ed, were not able to go…

Day 9 Nasedegu

Today we went to Church in Nasedegu, we took the van and half way there we went onto a dirt road with lots of ruts, it was bumpy, but Ovi did a good job of navigating through it. The singing was great even though I didn’t know the language. The groups that sang anways started in the door way and then shuffled…

Day 8  Bible Clubs

We had a nice morning with Bible Clubs, usually there are 3 but the road to one location was hard to get to so we had the children walk to our meet with another group. We began with a few songs with clapping and singing. Janine gave a lesson about Giddon, Leigh used the Evangel cube to present the gospel and Karey…

Day 7 Ntiya 2 Camp

What a beautiful day! We went to the Church where we began last Sunday of worship. We were expecting 200-400 and had that amount of food to feed them, but when it was time to eat we had about 600. We were willing to give up our food for the others to eat, but GOD gave us a miracle. We fed everyone…

Likangala Village Day6

Today new village close to the same schedule and activities. I did a modified version of 2 ways to live. Both days they said my picture I drew of a crown looks like a mountain, so today I stuck with a mountian because GOD made the powerful mountain . I began with creation, how sin came into the world, about JESUS, that…

Masau Village Day 5

First day of camp was a great experience, Stanley did a great job leading well everything. We had over 300 kids, I had about 150 in the church for a small lesson and the ladies took the other ones for another lesson. Stanley then divided the kids up into 3 groups. My team was the Elephant team. We didn’t fair well in…

Day 4

Today we picked up Anderson a high ranking police officer and a Tioeng a Public Relations officer, and went to the Regional Hospital to handout Bibles to the staff of over 350 total meeting in 4 different time spots. Ed gave a short message and then we handed each one a bible and many that I handed them to were very thankful.…

Day 3 Feeding Center

Today we went to a Feeding Center where we had quite an adventure getting to the center because the roads had been severly damaged by Cyclone Freddy. There were 63 orphans and other children who were there. We went into the small building to take a look, it was small about 25ft x 40ft. We went for a small hike to see…