Dear Friends
Today marks the final month of my time here in this wonderful country. It seems that just yesterday I was writing about my first month’s experiences. Time has truly flown by, and I feel that it increasingly goes by faster. These past few weeks have been filled with many wonderful moments that have captured my heart and shown me more of our great God. Thank you for letting me share some of them with you.
Leadership Academy
A few weeks ago we had our third Leadership Academy. I love the vision of the Academy and it was wonderful to be a part of equipping over thirty young students with leadership skills as well as discussing worldviews and biblical values. This camp we had nine returning second year learners as well as twenty two first year students. The first year camp was trained specifically in running a community transformation project and the second year students learned how to run a week long, Kid’s Game event in their community. The students planned several projects to help in Moshati,a local community. These projects varied from helping clean gardens, helping the elderly with housework to cleaning up a school yard. The community came along side everyone involved, and eagerly help with all different tasks. It warmed my heart to see this take place. We aren’t in this to teach kids how to pick up trash but to show them that they can be part of bringing change to their country. One other moving moment was with this young boy named Laster. He is an incredibly enthusiastic student who had quite a passionate heart for those around him. After we were done with the project he was leading, he said that we must pray for the family that we helped. His prayer was filled with genuine pleas to God that he would look after this family and provide for them after we left. It was great to see his thoughts about God change and form into a Godly leader as the week progressed. One final moment I want to share about is two boys named Karabo and Trevor .Since the department of Education funds this program we are somewhat limited to what we can share about becoming a Christian but we take every opportunity as a God given chance to speak truth into these young lives. John 8:32 says, You will know the truth and the truth will set you free. Such extraordinary reality!!! During a discussion in their small group session, they began to ask about what had been said throughout the week about being a Christian and after a long conversation with their leader they said that without a doubt they wanted to be followers of Christ and in that moment two more children were born into God’s Kingdom. Praise Him!!!
After School Programs
This past week we started our after school programs in Mapela, Mawhelerang and Moshati. Through our relationships with these schools ,they have agreed to let us come in after classes release and spend some time with the students .We have developed our program to be taught from the book of hope that all the children have received to reinforce the God’s powerful message contained in every page. After the first week we have seen the areas we needed to improve upon and are excited to see what this week holds. One thing that we know and trust is that power is in the seed and not the sewer. Our prayer is that we are simply tools that God uses to reveal His love, His amazing love to the kids in every classroom we enter. I ask that you would pray with us for every student and teacher we have the opportunity to talk with and that the love of Jesus would just permeate through everything we do.

What an incredible God we serve and for Him I want to risk it all. My constant prayer is that He will ruin me, through all I learn about Him and my experiences, for anything but serving Him with all my life. May God be with you all this week and may we always be aware of the different ways he makes Himself know to us this week.
-All my love Annette Morlando