Wow this blog has taken 3 hours to type/upload pics! :) We have had a blast with the Emerge Group from Christ Community Church in Omaha, Nebraska. This is a group of young professionals (ages 23-35), and WOW are they gifted! What struck me more than their gifts was how willing they have been to use their gifts this week, or even to jump in and do something that they have never done before! I'll let the pictures do the talking! :)
We are so grateful for volunteers loving on our kids - Andrea with Cambree :)
Batman is always ready to greet teams coming to New Day! :)
Look at all that blonde hair!!! :) Callie, Cambree, Andrea, & Jessie
Blu working on a 3 legged chair - being held up by Ron :)
Caedmon & Cason working on a puzzle out by the campfire
My absolute favorite part about this team - sitting around the campfire every night - doing devotions, sharing testimonies, and talking about how good God is! The spiritual depth of this group was amazing :)
This is Christin. I hardly have any pictures of her because she stayed SO busy with the New Day kids this week! She is a 1st grade teacher, incredibly gifted, and led all of the morning classes for the kids and then ran a VBS for them every afternoon as well!
A group also led Sunday School for our kids and taught them about David & Goliath
Dee led an intense 1 on 1 sewing class for Joyce and Michelle. They made skirts, learned how to make school uniform skirts and pants, made beanbags, discipline pocket charts, and aprons!
Team Michelle (who fashioned out the patterns by hand!), our Michelle, Dee, and Joyce
5 people on the team came ready to perform The Redeemer Drama. They did amazing and were able to do saturate the Mapanza area and perform in schools and rural areas to over 2000 people!! :)
Amy always got cheers for her part in the drama as the seductress :)
Kyle was an awesome Jesus!
Josh trying to get through the "wall" to return to Jesus
Our flag circle is getting bigger - we now have Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas (and North Carolina ready to go up!)
Teams spoil us!!! I was so grateful for all of the goodies! :)
This team also brought a medical group consisting of a physical therapist, doctor, burn nurse, pediatric ICU nurse, a counselor, and massage therapist. They conducted a local clinic for our villagers here - here is the headman getting his blood pressure taken! :)
Josh was the youngest on the team at age 23, but he was one of the two team leaders and did an amazing time leading devotions and even preaching on Sunday morning!
Kalenga - Nate - Steve. Some of the team spend the whole week working on construction. They built a door for a widow's house, finished the underbed drawers for the kids' bunkbeds, finished the playground roof, fixed our tank stand when realizing it was ready to tumble after a log slipped, and are now making see-saws for the playground!
When teams have over 8 people on them, they use an organziation out of Zimbabwe called ACTS. They take care of all transportation and cooking for the teams (which enables Laurie and I to be "Mary" and not "Martha!" :)
Here are Shumba & Shep - both Zimbabweans and part of the ACTS crew.
And here is Lauren, from South Africa, also with ACTS. They serve and serve and serve and do it all week long with a smile!
The medical team presented Michelle (who dreams of being a nurse) with her own stethoscope :)
Sharon with our Axer :)
The medical team also conducted a CPR/First Aid/Crisis Care seminar for the New Day staff. Here some of the staff practice the log roll technique
Dr. Terry got to do a minor procedure draining a cyst - yuck!
We have thoroughly enjoyed this team and hope to see some of them back at New Day again!
Batman is always ready to greet teams coming to New Day! :)
Look at all that blonde hair!!! :) Callie, Cambree, Andrea, & Jessie
Blu working on a 3 legged chair - being held up by Ron :)
Caedmon & Cason working on a puzzle out by the campfire
My absolute favorite part about this team - sitting around the campfire every night - doing devotions, sharing testimonies, and talking about how good God is! The spiritual depth of this group was amazing :)
This is Christin. I hardly have any pictures of her because she stayed SO busy with the New Day kids this week! She is a 1st grade teacher, incredibly gifted, and led all of the morning classes for the kids and then ran a VBS for them every afternoon as well!
A group also led Sunday School for our kids and taught them about David & Goliath
Dee led an intense 1 on 1 sewing class for Joyce and Michelle. They made skirts, learned how to make school uniform skirts and pants, made beanbags, discipline pocket charts, and aprons!
Team Michelle (who fashioned out the patterns by hand!), our Michelle, Dee, and Joyce
5 people on the team came ready to perform The Redeemer Drama. They did amazing and were able to do saturate the Mapanza area and perform in schools and rural areas to over 2000 people!! :)
Amy always got cheers for her part in the drama as the seductress :)
Kyle was an awesome Jesus!
Josh trying to get through the "wall" to return to Jesus
Our flag circle is getting bigger - we now have Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas (and North Carolina ready to go up!)
Teams spoil us!!! I was so grateful for all of the goodies! :)
This team also brought a medical group consisting of a physical therapist, doctor, burn nurse, pediatric ICU nurse, a counselor, and massage therapist. They conducted a local clinic for our villagers here - here is the headman getting his blood pressure taken! :)
Josh was the youngest on the team at age 23, but he was one of the two team leaders and did an amazing time leading devotions and even preaching on Sunday morning!
Kalenga - Nate - Steve. Some of the team spend the whole week working on construction. They built a door for a widow's house, finished the underbed drawers for the kids' bunkbeds, finished the playground roof, fixed our tank stand when realizing it was ready to tumble after a log slipped, and are now making see-saws for the playground!
When teams have over 8 people on them, they use an organziation out of Zimbabwe called ACTS. They take care of all transportation and cooking for the teams (which enables Laurie and I to be "Mary" and not "Martha!" :)
Here are Shumba & Shep - both Zimbabweans and part of the ACTS crew.
And here is Lauren, from South Africa, also with ACTS. They serve and serve and serve and do it all week long with a smile!
The medical team presented Michelle (who dreams of being a nurse) with her own stethoscope :)
Sharon with our Axer :)
The medical team also conducted a CPR/First Aid/Crisis Care seminar for the New Day staff. Here some of the staff practice the log roll technique
Dr. Terry got to do a minor procedure draining a cyst - yuck!
We have thoroughly enjoyed this team and hope to see some of them back at New Day again!
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