Finally! The whole team is home

On Thursday September 2 at about 2:00pm the stragglers arrived at LAX. Travel weary after three weeks of being away from home and a flight home that took a total of twenty eight hours including a one hour stop in Dakar, Senegal and a four hour stop in New York.

Third Generation Smat Choices team in training.

We spent the last two days participating in the training of the third generation of Smart Choices team trainers in Soshangove. They consisted of on of the pastors in training from Ebenezer Christian Fellowship Church, two students from schools that have received Smart Choices training in the past year and other members of the youth group of Ebenezer Christian Fellowship Church.

Second generation Smart Choice trainers.

On Tuesday afternoon we had a meeting with the second generation Smart Choices trainers lead by Thomas Mphara to let know of some of their needs to be able to continue doing the Smart Choices and school discipleship programs in the schools. These included a request for new uniforms, a camera to record their activities, help with transport to get them to the schools, and a small stipend for the trainers to sustain them while not working but still participating in the ministry.

All of the orphans living with Zodwa and Pastor Elias Gomba.

All told we had a very enjoyable last two days with the Soshanguve team but we were definitely in the wind down mode. Thanks again to all who have supported us financial to enable this mission trip to take place, to all those who have been praying for safety and success, and to those been following our activities on this blog. There will be a report back celebration held in both Prescott, Arizona and Orange County, California. Dates and times of these activities will be advertised shortly.