Learners reach out in Zim and Mozambique
2011-07-28
A GROUP of 36 students from local schools (20 from Paarl Boys’ High, 15 from La Rochelle and 1 from Paarl Girls’ High) spent 20 days ministering at three different mission stations in Zimbabwe and Mozambique during the recent school holiday. Accompanied by Boys’ High teacher Garth Shaw, and his wife Marionelle (a teacher at La Rochelle High), the group began their ministry at Morgenster Mission, outside the town of Masvingo, in Central Zimbabwe. At Morgenster, they partnered up with local Student Christian Association learners to paint two of the school’s classroom blocks. The poverty and lack of facilities, along with the hospitability and generosity of the local school and its learners proved to be very humbling for the group. The highlight of the out-reach for many was the experience of being hosted for a traditional Shona lunch by the local learners. Friendships were also built through soccer and netball games between the schools and a specially organised youth service on the evening of Sunday 26 June. From Morgenster the group travelled to the small town of Marromeu, on the bank of the Zambezi River in Mozambique. Here the group split up, with the girls spending the next seven days at YWAM Marromeu, ministering to small children and giving English classes to the older children. The boys travelled by boat across the river (which is two kilometres wide) to the smaller town of Luabo, where they ministered with the members of Standing Side by Side Ministries. The boys were mostly involved in physical work as the mission station is a very new one and much work is to be done in setting up a base. The weekend was however spent with groups of learners ministering in different villages along the river bank, inviting residents to the Sunday church service. The group stopped off at the coastal town of Vilankulos to experience some of the superb snorkeling and seafood Mozambique offers before taking the long road home.
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