The Day Out With Ganizani; No Deaths.

This morning I went with Pastor Ganizany to a primary school. We would be teaching them a story from the Bible, sing a few songs, and greet all of them. Lol.  

  

Ganizany has been trying to do Outreach with me for a couple weeks now. He's asked me four times to come with him, but every one of those four times he's had to be at a funeral. But today no-one has passed away, making him able to do Outreach with me.

Just a fact: Ganizany used to bike to the hospital every week for Hospital Ministry. The hospital is about fourteen kilometers away, so fourteen kilometers there and back. He's pretty dedicated to the cause. Last September Jackie arrived here, so he has been getting rides to the hospital every week since! Ja..

On the way...

Just past the market...

And here's the group waiting for us.

And into a village.

Ganizany comes to this place every week for these kids. The pastors here in Malawi are hard workers. Yes, the pastors in Canada are hard workers, but these pastors here are amazing. Heston preaches a three hour service on Sunday, works with concrete on the weekdays at times, sometimes drives the tracker to pick up bricks or other things, and on Fridays he does Bible study for a few hours.

Ganizany also preaches for three hours, works at the hospital on Wednesdays, teaches the primary students.

I raised my arm, clicked the power button, took off the lens cover, and was then smothered with over two hundred kids staring at me. I then took a photo.

Ganizany and I were shown to our seats. As we sat there waiting for the kids to sit down, there were a few in the front yelling at the others to back up to give us more room. That was pretty nice, but it felt a little weird.

Then the teacher came in and backed them all up a good ten feet or so. I guess it's kind of hard to manage over two hundred children.

Praying with the kids.

Story time.

The Lone Stump (with a few branches.)

And here is a little girl with a disease that makes her bones weak, so she has to live her life in a wheelchair. It is funny though, with how she can be so happy with how little she has. Geez! Canada needs more of this spirit!

The well.

This place is the primary school. It's pretty small, but somehow it manages to have over two hundred kids in it at a time.

The primary school.

 Pastor Ganizany's guitar at rest.

 All Hope Village pastors wear this shirt. Abusa means, 'Pastor' in English.

 An assistant teacher.

 This girl wouldn't stop smiling as Ganizany did his actions to his story. She's really cute. I only managed to get this one shot, because as soon as she realized that I had a camera, she ducked her head behind her friends. Lol.

On the way back.

The market near Hope Village.

 I would like to thank Lake of the Trees Bible Camp for this Gatorade bottle. First off: It served me well at camp. But secondly, I bet you had no clue when you let me keep it that I would fly all the way over to Africa and use it in the hot temperatures. It is very needed and well used, as it gets up to forty-seven degrees - the hottest temperature, so far -  and with me having to bike to certain places, near or far, to work outside. So, thank you very much! I will continue putting it to good use here in Malawi!

After lunch, I went looking for Ganizany again to help him with another village ministry, but I didn't know where he was, so I went looking around for him. Here are some photos I took on my way.

On the other side of this path is... a road....

An anthill.

Almost a silhouette.

It is normal to see goats and cows wandering around the village areas. Goats in groups of three or so, but cows in herds of twenty to sixtyish.

Some brick walls at Gifti's s place.

 Kept on biking....

After an hour or two, I still couldn't find him and decided to go back to the house to write my lesson for Bible Study.

A Bible, pen, a hard-serviced computer, piece of paper, some music and we're good to go!

Here's my teaching. You can read it. Bear with me and my style of writing. I know, I am pretty good at scribbling,

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