Hi all,

Thought that I would share some of what's been happening this week. On Monday, some of the staff workers commented on how big the servings of food are at the AE centre. One of them made a comment how I will be 'much bigger' when I leave because I have been eating at the centre 3 times a day. I doubt  I will be but I did say that my pants felt tighter and they found that funny.

On Tuesday morning, Stephen Lungu came to speak at devotion. Afterwards he came over and gave me a hug and Hloni said to him 'Do you know Hamish?'' and he said 'Yeah, he's been here a long time. He was at the mission last year'. I said that Stephen had been to my church and he replied that he had been to Melbourne ten times and thought it was a very nice place. He shared in the devotion how he used to hate white people but now he doesn't even notice the colour of a person's face. He was telling me and some others some amazing experiences he had had of conversions that had taken place as a result of his preaching. He said he met a white man recently who said to him 'You are chocolate and I am cream, but those go well together'.

On Wednesday morning at devotion Biggie, one of the staffworkers, shared about her recent trip to Egypt and Israel. She talked about her experience in Israel as being the bible brought to life, through visiting places like the Garden of Gethsemane, the walls of Jericho, the tomb where Jesus rose, the walkway where he carried the cross and also the river Jordan and the Sea of Galilee. It was really interesting and all so different from what I imagined (but of course, it all would have looked different 2000 years ago). I actually didn't know some of those places still existed. Following her talk was a slideshow of photos accompanied by the song 'Mary did you know'. I found it quite moving.

I have been pretty busy with work. Marius, who normally does the graphic design work hasn't had much to do, because everyone has been asking me - I think they are trying to make the most of me while I'm here which is good. I have recently done an invite for a conference in July and a poster for Songe for a church service, and I have some proposals to design the layout for. I have some other small jobs to do when I have spare time, like some logos to design. I have attached two of the jobs I have done the past few days.