A German BBQ

Eric sharing his story with us.  He is a German who grew up in Africa. He was a great speaker.

Monday here in Sumatra brought us some new experiences; some of them new to even Kathi and I.  Our day started out after breakfast with a trip to the local high school on camp.  There we met about 10-12 students along with several teachers from the school who talked to us about their school, showed us how to play some traditional Indonesian drums, and took us on a tour of campus.   

This was quite a new experience, as we had never been to the Indonesian school here before and didn’t know what to expect.  The students who met with us were excellent English speakers, very well spoken and very outgoing.  Our team was very impressed with them and genuinely got along with them on a personal level.  Several of these students will earn scholarships to go to America to study in college.  It was rather impressive.  You could tell that these kids were the cream of the crop.  Tomorrow we will join them again to learn about some traditional Indonesian games.  It should be fun!

We then went to lunch for a little chicken fajitas and rice.   From there we had to wait a little longer for transportation than we were planning so our plan to play futsal with the orphanage kids had to be rescheduled for tomorrow.  Once we did get vehicles to take us we went ahead and hung out at the orphanage.  Games, dancing and singing praise songs ensued.  All of our team is really making some great connections with the kids there. 

We ended the evening with a BBQ meal from one of the Chevron employees who had been allowing us to use one of his vehicles.  He makes a mean grilled chicken and shared an even better testimony and devotion with the kids.  It was so great that he went out of his way to share his home and story with us. 

We apologize for so few pictures tonight but the internet here right now is very slow. We don’t know why that is. We will effort to get some more up later.