Our day started with our routine Morning Devotions, whereby we will rotate to give a short message and thoughts on it. William had the honour to start our first morning devotion of the trip. Breakfast seemed so much like lunch. We had rice and dishes =S WHERE's my bread and Toast, and kaya, and ....
Culture Check: I'm in Nias, it's their culture to eat rice for breakfast.
Before we dived into preparing for the children’s camp, we had to clear our chores which included washing the dishes. It's Jessica and Darren's turn!
They seem to enjoy it. Well, they can have the privilege to do it for the entire trip =)
These are the logistical items we have prepared!!
Darren looks really serious with his work
Don't zh look very old? - Call him Old Man
Gilbert & Esther colouring our camp poster!
Displaying our poster
By lunch, we had arranged most of our logistics and drew two posters to announce the commencement of our children’s camp which starts at 4pm the next day. CAMP IS NEXT DAY! oh no..... haha, we all have high hopes for the camp. After interacting with a few children around the neighbourhood, i greatly anticipate playing games with them, and at the same time teaching them about the joys of being in Christ.
More Photos of Nias
~ Nias Hope Foundation
The lazy afternoon effect kicked in when the sun was beating on the house. The power cut didn’t help improve the situation either, because fans are useless without it. Thus most of us took shelter in the concrete first level of the house. Esther practiced her violin, while we took turns to cut out nametags and to play the out-of-tune,impossible-to-tune guitar.
Dinner was served and shortly after it, we had a session of prayer together. We had prayed hard for blessing of safety to be upon all our team members and as well as the camp participants. On top of that, we prayed for God to open hearts of the people of Nias to His words.
Nias has a population size of 500,000, 90% of which are Christians. We were told that most of them were “Cultural Christians”. They believe that they are Christians because their parents were Christians. They did not actively seek after the Lord for salvation, and are passive in their involvement to church.
Having this thought in mind, our purpose shifted more to spreading the Gospel message, telling them that they have to repent and believe in Jesus for them to be saved!
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