Selemani Family

Selemani Family
Victor, Lori, Victoria, Clara, Joshua, and David Beni

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Work Day, Children's Play

Wednesday was our YWAM team’s Work Day at the Training Base, cleaning up for the coming Discipleship Training School (DTS).  I helped sweep and clean out dorm rooms that have only been occupied by birds for months!  It tugged our heart strings to remove the nests from the roof, some nestling eggs or newborn chicks.  Clara carried around a baby bird for most of the morning, reluctant to even put it down to eat lunch (I can eat lunch with one hand, Mom.)
 
This guy went weed-wacking in the bush!  Literally!  Too bad I didn’t get a picture of the 6 feet high grass he was cutting as he tried to clear the way to open up a new driveway into the training base.  Our old driveway has been blocked by the construction of a new housing block for families.  All the dots on him are the sticker seeds of the weeds he was wading through!
If children’s play indicate was has impacted their life, my kids’ play is very telling!  They play “airplane” probably 4x a week, if not every day.  Here you can see their luggage under their seats, pillows behind their backs, and snacks in front of them.  I guess the flight attendant had already passed by.  These airplane flights are not the short ones!  One day I walked in to find Joshua leaning back on a pillow in his chair with a blanket pulled up to his chin, eyes closed.  This was the LONG over- the- ocean all night flight!  The kids also love to PACK up their things and pretend to go on any kind of trip.  I guess we’ve done a bit of traveling in their short lifetimes!
 

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Mother's Day


Sunday Victor was invited to preach at the church, I’ve nicknamed the oven church.  The congregation is in the process of building a bigger church building which should be nice when it is finished.  In the meantime they meet in a temporary building which has the roofing sheets on 3 of the 4 walls and on the roof.  Since we packed the church that Sunday, the inside soon felt like an oven!  Add the exuberant singing and dancing and it was hot, even for normally cool Lichinga this time of year!
This is the best picture I got on the run on Mother’s Day.  We were 45 minutes late (I thought) and so we were running.  Or I should say, I was running.  The children seem to be oblivious to late.  However, when we got the church, hardly anyone was there and we ended up waiting another 30-40 minutes for church to start.  I guess I shouldn’t stress so much on Sunday mornings.