Naomi's Village Day 2

          
         I was woken up at 5:30 by a rooster that lived down the road. We all got ready to go to church. We were going to a place called Mwi' Hangiri. (Muy Hungary) It is a camp with a little over 30 people living in it. These people have been living in tents for over 7 years. 8 years ago the government was having an election to select a new president. Something happened to where all of these people were ran out of their homes to stay safe. After a couple of months Habitat for Humanity came in and built houses for many camps. Then an announcement went out telling everyone that there are no longer any camps, everyone has a place to live. They had only built houses for the camps that were right along the highway. There were still camps way far back that no one knew about, still living in tents that were falling apart. One day Naomi's Village found them and asked them how they could help and what they needed. These people have no water, no food, they barely have a place to live, and the first thing they asked for was a church to be able to worship in. So NV built them a church and is in the process of building them homes. When I say home its not what we think of as homes. The homes being built for them are 6ft. by 6ft. homes made out of sheets of in roots. They are so proud of their homes it is amazing. 

         Right when the vans pull up to the church all we hear is loud voices singing in Swahili and drums beating.  We all file in and stand in the back clapping along to their idea of worship. It was so beautiful. We did that for over an hour. Then they had different people come up and speak about God's goodness. It was so cool. Then my dad was called up to lead some of the worship songs we sing in America. I got to go lead with him. They knew most of them. We sang 10,000 Reasons, Our God, Amazing Grace, This is Amazing Grace. Then I got to teach them one of my new favorite songs called Good Good Father. After I finished singing, I look up at the crowd and all I see are smiles. Then I was told to sing more of the song so I just kept repeating the chorus and after doing it 3 times I could hear little voices singing it with me. Soon everyone in the church was singing, "You're a good, good father. It's who you are, it's who you are, it's who you are, and I'm loved by you. It's who I am, it's who I am, it's who I am." It was life changing looking at them with their eyes closed, smiling, shouting praises to our King. 

          After the service, a lady named Margaret invited my family to see her home. We walk in and can barely fit 5 of us standing in there. She was so proud of her home. She explained how 6 people live in that house and she is so blessed by all God has given them. She is such an amazing woman. I got to meet her daughter Juliana. She is 16. I was asking her about school. She explained that she walks 3 hours to school, goes to school from 7:30-5, then walks home 3 more hours. She never complained. All she could say was how blessed and honored she was to be able to attend school. 

         We left and went back to Naomi's Village. We played with babies and played soccer with the older kids. We ate dinner then went to have movie night with all 59 of the NV kids. We watched the Croons. The whole movie, I had toddlers crawling in and out of my lap whispering things in my ear that I would nod and reply with, "ya!" to even though I had no clue what they had just said. 
We went back to the house and went to bed. All I could think about was the church experience I had had at Mwi' Hangiri. It was the most amazing thing I had ever experienced. Our God is so powerful! 

Our God is greater, our God is stronger, God you are higher than another. Our God is healer, awesome in power, our God, our God. // For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God. 
2 Corinthians 13:4