Kanyaya Outreach

This afternoon I joined my mother on a small outreach to a village church called Kanyaya. Three girls from Harding who are here working at the orphanage joined us, as well as Cindy Robinson and 2 translators, Rodgers Namuswa, and my friend Mosozi, a girl from the secondary school. Cindy taught a Bible class to the ladies while the rest of us taught the children. We used flip charts and stick puppets to tell the story of the Prodigal Son. Any American child would be bored to tears merely looking at a flip chart, but these children were enthralled. Not once did we have to stop and ask a child to be quiet or to quit messing with their neighbor (I am definitely teaching in the wrong country!). I couldn't help thinking, "What would these kids think of a Smartboard?!" After the stories, we had the children make a visor with the words, "Jesu Ulandiyanda" on them, which means "Jesus Loves Me" in Tonga. We passed out crayons in Ziploc bags to the children, and had to teach many of them how to use a crayon, and even how to open a Ziploc! At the end of the day, we, the visitors, lined up outside the church building as the women and children sang to us and shook each of our hands, as is Zambian custom, to thank us for coming.