I'm a Little Behind

And I apologize for not getting a post up last night about my day yesterday. In the morning, I met with the District Youth Leader of the Wesleyan Church and 5 of the youth leaders under her. We all talked about the vision for Vox Youth Initiatives and we talked extensively about the idea of holding rallies to reach youth with the message of HIV prevention combined with the hope that is available through Christ in the face of HIV/AIDS. Because Penny is over all of these churches and because she liked this idea, she even signed up the churches that weren't at the meeting for a rally. I think that we committed to something around 8 rallies yesterday! And we planned two training weekends and the date for the first rally will be October 27. It was a very, very productive meeting and it was a huge answer to prayer.
Later in the afternoon, the Kings, Jason Pierce, and I went to a township to have dinner with one of the ladies who is a care worker at Zenzele. We really didn't know what to expect as we drove over there - we expected to be eating in a tin shack with little to no concern for the cleanliness of the dishes and things like that. However, we were very pleasantly surprised to find that they had started in a shack and had saved up until they could add a room onto an actual house. Now the house is around 5 rooms with electricity and running water. We brought chili along with us and we hung out and enjoyed the night. We found out throughout the course of the discussion that it was a really big deal in the neighborhood that Rhoda was having white people come over to her house. We were glad we could spend some time with Rhoda and her family and we talked with them about doing it again.