Sunday Morning

Well, it is Sunday morning. If we were in Canada, we'd get up, get ready and head out the door for church. Maybe we'd join friends for lunch out at a restaurant and then spend the remainder of the day relaxing or sharing time with family.

Here, Sundays are very different for us. It is the biggest market day in Tactic and we don't meet for church until 4pm. When groups are here, they do a "market activity" in the morning, which essentially consists of them doing some of our team grocery shopping and trying to complete a variety of tasks. The idea is to give the team a feel for what it would be like trying to function in a foreign environment. We turn it into a bit of a competition and it is a lot of fun.

After lunch, we take the group to a coffee plantation that is about a 1/2 hour drive from town. When we finish there, we come back home and get ready for church. Church ususally goes from 4pm - 6:30pm, so when church is done, we have supper. Following supper we spend time with the team, leading a debrief. Our day usually ends around 9:30pm.

The reason I am able to write this blog right now is because we have a couple living in the guest house - Al and Judy Wilms from Calgary - and they are taking care of the market activity so we don't have to. If they weren't here, we'd be "on" from 8:30 am to 9:30 pm - a 13 hour day! Not exactly like home!

Now, don't get me wrong, I am not complaining. This has actually become very normal for us and we really enjoy it. When our days are not filled with activities with the teams, we have other duties that we perform. Rocky, of course, is constantly going between the various work

projects making sure everything is progressing as planned. I do some administrative work for the ministry and have also started doing translating for the sponsorship office. Our days are full and we feel so blessed to be able to serve in the way that we do.
We are looking forward to a rest, although, and returning to Canada to see family and friends. Hope and I will be arriving in Canada on November 1st and Rocky 2 weeks later. We hope to be able to connect with you sometime during our time at home.

Bless you, Karren