Trip 5 (February 2013)

We were all kind of getting an itch to go back to J-life. Mark and Rosemary wanted their 4 older kids to see a different culture and understand how other people live in the world. We also took our nephew, Kyle. It was fun for all of us to have so many kids on this trip. We had 6 adults and 7 kids.

We had asked John prior to going if he could give us a project to do while we were there. On Camp Eden there is an obstacle course for the youth, and John wanted a climbing wall too. The youth and women stained all of the wood for the wall, while the men did all of the higher work!! Yikes – that was high!!

(Rosemary was the only brave women to actually climb the scaffolding!!)

We also visited Johannesburg and helped clean a store that sold donated clothes. One day we went and sorted boxes upon boxes of clothes that were given to that store, or transported to a village in the mountains to another group of people.

The highlight was to chat with Cheryl at Door of Hope and see some of their baby houses. We saw God using her abilities to live out James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

We pray that we can continue to work with Door of Hope when we are there.

This was such a fun, eye-opening trip for everyone. I think we all saw things that will forever be sketched into our minds, and the youth were able to experience a life that looks very different from the ones they live in the states. God gave all of us a vision of contentment, even when we can’t control our environment. Thank you Jesus for continuing to show us more of YOU.

I have to include this picture, it is one of the funnier things we saw in Johannesburg!!

Do you think this would raises any safety issues in the states? Ha!!