Kareena's Missions

Crusade was quite the experience, to say the least! A Crusade is basically an evangelistic series which is often accompanied by medical missionaries. We go out, heal the people physically and invite them to become spiritually healed by Jesus through our nightly meetings, church and bible studies. For me this involved tons of kids, friendly people, extreme UV rays and a gorgeous lake. It was chaos and ministry wrapped up in sand, sun and wacky food. Crusade forced me to grow and stretch: camping in a tent for 3 weeks, leading a children’s program, cooking for 18 people without instructions over charcoal, and a 13 hour road trip that turned into 57 hours. It’s been an intense experience and one I wouldn’t trade for anything!  I would like to share some of my unexpected journey and musings you... One afternoon, I was asked to share a mission story and so I shared my grandma's story about a village in Alaska, while standing in the shade of the mango trees. I was telling them about the

Sept 21 - We woke up “late” at 7 am and met for worship. Unfortunately, my tent/roommates and I woke up an hour early, because our phones picked up Tanzania time... big oof. We had worship and started our day.  We worked on food and setting up where we would have the crusade.  My 2 pocket knives came in handy with the kitchen and wires and screens for the projector. We dug holes in the sand to place the poles to string the lights.  I offered to help, but the men kept taking over.  They were always surprised when I could carry something or cut something. They would say, “very powerful” in their African accents. They were also surprised I knew how to wrap wires around my arm, to keep it from getting tangled. (I guess Pathfinders has prepared me for lots of different experiences!)  We strung lights and made sure everything worked, we then packed it all up so we could relax and get ready for the evening program.  I was put in charge of the Children's Corner for the crusade. A job I

 Sunday Sept 18th We woke up at 2am ready to go.  I made some breakfast to eat.  We got Sarah and Liz sleeping mats and bags to the trailer.  We piled into the Land Cruiser and were off on our "13 hour trip."    I Sleep, Red and we talked,  We all took the enneagram   personality test.  With 7 of us in the car and out of 8 personality types we have all but a type 5.    Stopped for a bathroom break to and picked up breakfast, lunch and dinner.  The roads were so bad it took much longer to drive than we thought.    During our drive through a national park we saw a river and a bush dog.  We got in late and the Zambian Church Conference President got us a hotel room.  Nice enough, no sink and saw at least one cockroach.  We slept for 4 hours.  Back on the road for an hour and POP!  Our belt broke and radiator burst.  This was 6:00am.  We took the radiator out and Fortune (our driver) hitched a ride back to town to see about a new one.   We ran out of water so Scott, Jabes, and I