Vol. 46
Community:
As I take a breather from the first ever
Rescue Amazing Academics Race (RAAR! Yes, I invented that!), I look at the kids
as they are shouting and scrambling over each other trying to win prizes! And I
smile!
The older kids aged 15 and up have gone to Youth Camp so the grades 1 to
6 are here at Rescue. So we have combined classes and adjusted how we teach the
little ones.
I muse over the fact that I have asked you
to pray for community, and God has sent community in the forms of English camp
teams who have come over from Western Canada to teach here over the past two
months!
It has been my privilege to travel with them on the bus and to get to
know them; to see their passion not only for the kids but also for the God Whom
they serve.
It has been a hug and a kiss from God to me to have them here, to
speak English with them, to pray, to laugh, to sing in the tuk tuk and to see
the tuk tuk drivers clap and dance with us as we travel and to share our own
stories of God’s work in our lives! I have learnt a lot from these precious
gems from God!
Recently the wife of one of the pastors at
New Life church where I worship came up to me and gave me her card and asked if
we could have coffee together! We have yet to get a date, but again, this is an
answer to your prayers to community!
It is the last day of RAAR!
Samnang, who is
one of my former students and now on staff as the Crafts/Dance Instructor,
designed the games today. We had students playing hopscotch, running around
poles, trying to toss different coloured balls in a bucket, making words 5
letters and longer, blowing balloons and then sitting on them to burst them,
and, of course, water melon eating contests with hands behind their backs!
Instructions were given in English (and then translated into Khmer for the
younger ones) and the team that performed the above in the fastest time won!
Needless to say, with it being so hot here, filling the balloons with water
(for older kids) was the most anticipated one (next to eating the watermelon!).
Each kid had to fill the balloon with water they drank from a cup and then had
to put into the balloon! Then we had musical chairs which somehow always ends
up a bit violent with chairs being pulled away as a kid was just about to sit
on it and end up on the floor or a kid would be elbowed away!
In the background
to all of this is Christian hip-hop music in English!
The kids loved it!
I was in stitches because some of the kids
could not burst the balloons when they sat on them so we had to lift them up
and drop them on the balloon! Then the younger ones got so frazzled (love that
word!) that they could not remember the colour of the balls that they had to
say out loud in English before tossing them into the bucket. So a few of them
were saying all the colours they knew hoping to eventually say the right one!
And of course the day ended with me being thoroughly soaked!
Water is a
precious commodity here at Rescue and we did not have running water so without
my knowing it, the kids got buckets of water from the small pool and I got
drenched! The other 2 supervisors fled the scene so they were dry!
And speaking of community I am excited to
see you all again! My arrival date back to Toronto is November 5th!
I look forward to reconnecting with you all yet at the same time anticipating
my return here to Cambodia.
Prayer
requests:
For my
next step here: in these last couple of months pray that I would have my
eyes opened to where He would have me.
My
parents: they are trying to sell our home in Trinidad and Tobago. Pray that God
would send the right buyer and that all the details would be sorted out to
alleviate any anxiety for my parents.
Thank you for continuing to dance with me!
See you soon!
Dancing with Him,
Love,
Sister Vidya
