Yes, yesterday the teams were announced for outreach and I am going to Botswana then Zimbabwe for about 2.5 months. True, it's not all comedy, but the motto of this outreach is "Bringing laughter and those who are flexible will not be broken." The places we are going to have very little to laugh about, and not surprisingly, my team has quite a few of the natural comedians on this DTS. Also for almost all the time we will have no beds, running or drinkable tap water, electricity or contact with the outside world. The outreach is based in villages and we go by Combi.
We leave on April 21st for Botswana. There we are linking up with a local pastor and running a 4 day conference. He also wants us to do some teaching about AIDS/HIV. Apparently the church is mostly of girls, because many house-holds there have no parents due to aids e.t.c and are run by older kids taking care of younger ones.
Then we go to Bulawayo Zimbabwe. There we join a orphan/foster care program that has about 100 kids. We will visit their houses, run bible studies for families, teach the kids, play sports with them, visit schools and hospitals and feed them if we can - Zimbabwe currently has no petrol and food is scarce. The govt. doesn't allow people to give away food either because they think it makes them look bad or that the food comes with an agenda behind it.
The last three weeks the team is still praying and working out where to go from there on.
And I have to dance and do dramas! Yuk! Apparently, it's the best way to reach this culture. We begin getting out camping gear, medicine and putting our dance routines together soon. At least, if I have to dance in public it will guarantee laughs.
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