Shortly after we returned from the South Coast trip we reloaded up the vans this time with 34 people and made ready to depart for Durban which is a city on the East coast of South Africa (about 6 hrs away from Johannesburg where I live)
We were going there to help run 2 separate Holiday Bible Clubs (HBC) aka Vacation Bible School (VBS) as well as teach the youth of those churches the importance of evangelism and reading the Bible everyday.
We spent the first night at a local church were we helped with the youth group and had a huge bonfire were students shared about how previous SMASH trips had impacted their lives.
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| This was after the fire had been burning for quite a while |
My team went to a Zulu speaking church called Egukanyeni and we had nearly 200 kids each day of HBC. I worked with one of the youths from the church at running the games. In the afternoons we played soccer for a bit then had training sessions with them to teach them how to study God's Word and how important it is that they share what they learn in the Bible with other people.
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| It was quite packed in our van and going around corners sometimes got quite intense |
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| Craft time |
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| The youngest group waiting for the closing meeting |
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| Grades 3-4 |
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| Thobile (right) with one of the youths from the church that we worked with during the week |
The other group went to a church with mixed languages and did almost identical things.
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| One of the classes from the other group |
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| One night for dinner we had the famous South African Bunny Chow. It was rumored that it was as hot as the surface of the sun...but it was not |
It was great to hear about and experience as we saw many kids come to trust Christ as a result of the HBC and others trust Christ when we were evangelizing in the community around the churches.
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| One of my favorite parts was getting to know other guys from around Joburg a lot better. |
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