Greetings from (basically) the
bottom of the world! We’ve officially survived day three of our Holiday Clubs
and have now eclipsed the halfway point for our trip, meaning you will get to
see our tired yet joyful faces in the not-too-distant future. Since our last
post, two more hectic days of camp have passed, filled with endless shouting,
games, singing, and smiles. Claire D. and Clayton have kicked off the past two
mornings with inspirational devotionals for our team and the LSE’s at Living
Hope while Robin, Rebekah, and James have shared the daily Bible story with
both the little kids and teens.
While spreading the Good News is
our ultimate mission on this trip, we
received our own encouragement last night at dinner from the
founders of Living Hope, John and Avril Thomas, who spent all of three hours
inspiring and affirming our mission while telling unthinkable stories of
despair followed by even more remarkable stories of hope found in the love of
Jesus Christ. Citing Matthew 25, John and Avril urged us to think of all of the
kids at Capricorn and Overcome as “the least of these” and called us to see
Jesus in each and every child we serve.
Our team
has adopted this new attitude and has persevered through sickness, exhaustion,
government-regulated power outages, and any other challenges thrown our way
(like the rocks that have bombarded us at Capricorn the past two days). In
other news, the rain has held off so far (knock on wood), we’re finally doing
laundry tomorrow so our overall scent should improve, and most importantly we
made a KFC run today which was incredibly clutch. That’s about all I got, and
I’m missing out on what sounds like a really good conversation downstairs, so
I’ll bug out.
Thank you for your thoughts and prayers,
Mac Harris
P.S. Here is our updated sleep tally:
Tucker: 8
Chad: 5
Randy: 4
Claire H.: 2
Robin: 2
Erin: 2
Anne Marie: 2
James: 1
Caleb: 1
Rebekah: 1
Frans: 1
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