Well, I am truly digging in here. No longer do I feel I am on an outreach, I feel I am immersed and learning so much.
I'm a bit lonely, but very glad brooke is here. I think we are making progress.
Today is Friday and we had to make our end of the months report to turn in to the Dept of Health. This is exactly why I don't work with the government in America... too many forms, South Africa is the same.
We have l0 caregivers, and we had to tally all their visits and clients. With the language barrier, it was amazing we got it done, but it took ALL day. We will turn in the forms Monday and see where we went wrong, or right!
Out of l0 caregivers, we had 3 deaths this month and one of the caregivers turned in another OVC (orphan of vulnerable child).
This little girl we will go see monday. She lives with a l5 year old sister, no grant coming in yet and she is 7 and has AIDS herself. Pray for wisdom as we go to help this family. next week we will also take the boys from last Friday to get uniforms for school and shoes as some people have come forward to provide this. We do need to continue to help a bit with food. Pastor Prince and Brooke drove out to the Aunts yesterday and she wasn't there, but amazingly the older brother 21 (who went with them to the country looking for the aunt), called prince today to say, they now had all the documents so off to Social Services Monday for them as well. Praise the Lord, we are moving forward.
Today there was a TB meeting so our caregivers came in two shifts. At lunch with the first shift, one of the caregivers started sharing with me (she has good English) about the need for school fees for her l4 year old daughter, her 23 year old daughter had been helping her until she was murdered a year ago July. It was the most tragic story. Just left with a friend of her ex-boyfriend and never returned, her body was found mutilated and decapitated. The mother accused the boyfriend who, now has threatened her so she lives somewhere differnt. it was so sad. After she verbalized it all to me, Prince came in and she told it all over again to him (he later told me he had read about it but they never knew it was her daughter). She cried and I ministered to her while Prince took the others next door. It is pretty hard telling a mother of such a horrible act, that for her sake she needs to forgive and trust the Lord for vengence. (please pray I didn't say anything stupid as there is a bit of language barrier and it is really hard to express yourself sometimes when ministering. Must rely on the Holy Spirit to bridge the gap and cover the errs.
It was a long day. Glad the weekend is here for a bit of a break. Monday we will move forward with the orphans, and begin to check on each patient seen by our caregivers to guarantee the visits and needs are being met. Then the first full week in october we begin feeding the TB patients.
Please pray for our meeting with the 7 year old with AIDS and her l5 year old sister.
Pray for finances for each of these projects., The caregivers need support (trying to raise $l00 each) and we have l sponsored
9 to go.
Also for the extra funds to begin buying food for the TB feeding scheme.
it is a bit wierd as the schools have "spring break" next week and all the stores are breaking out their summer stock. Strange stuff. Enjoy the colors if they are out and one of those crisp fall days for me.
Much Love and appreciate your prayers. I know God is going to show himself to each of these we come in contact with. Great Is His Faithfulness.
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