Last Days at AE

It is a Wednesday night, and I have a little more than 48 hours left on the African Enterprise campus in Pietermaritzburg. Saturday morning, at 6 AM all forty-eight of us will be packing up and heading off to Cape Town. We are taking a 5 day drive along the coast in order to get there, and we will be stopping at different sites and staying in hotels along the way.

Tomorrow is the last day at Gateway. So much has happened. We said goodbye to the Cele family (one of the craft groups we were able to visit multiple times), and Promise (one of the aunts who is 56 years old) shed tears of sadness and joy as we were walking out the door. On our last day with the Celes we listened to Lionel Richie, painted nails, ate cookies, and spent time relaxing. It was a beautiful day, and the hospitality and generosity this family showed to each of us far surpasses anything I've seen in my life thus far. They have so little, yet the little the do have, they give-- freely. We prayed with them before we left and we all walked, as slowly as possible mind you, back to the car for a final goodbye.

On Friday, my Gateway group will present about our service site in our Community Engagement class, so here is a little slideshow I put together showing some of the highlights over these last four weeks. I hope you enjoy!

See you in Cape Town next week! Till then, be blessed and be a blessing.

"My child, remember what I say and never forget what I tell you to do.Do what I say, and you will live. Be as careful to follow my teaching as you are to protect your eyes.Keep my teaching with you all the time; write it on your heart.Treat wisdom as your sister, and insight as your closest friend."
-Prov. 7:1-4