A Saturday full of Missionary Activities

We met at the Elohim Church in Soweto where the Humanitarian
Missionaries had arranged for the presentation of this sewing machine.
This lady will teach other women to sew and in return they keep the sewing
machine.  The church program is to provide training along with the machine so
that the ladies might develop a business for profit.

These are some samples of the types
of products they might make to sell.
Purses, dresses, skirts, etc.

Elder and Sister Pederson are the
Humanitarian Missionaries that
arranged for the sewing machine
hand-over.  The church had a huge
celebration--decorations, food, newspaper coverage, etc. They were
very appreciative for the machine.
Pastor Sauls is in the colored shirt at
the back.

I took their picture and then gave each one a sucker.  Within
minutes the car was surrounded with the neighborhood kids
wanting suckers.  

Grandpa is teaching the children
how to wink. . .

Here is Grandpa doing his Missionary Calling--talking to
the newspaper reporter about the event.

We met at the Missionary Training Center Saturday morning to do a "Prayer Project."  An artist from
Cape Town has been going to different parts of the world to bring awareness of God through prayer.
He enlists the aid of different churches to record a prayer and then the exhibit is simply people listening
to the recorded prayers.  He asked us to participate so we went to the MTC and enlisted the aid of the
missionaries there.  We had  fifteen prayers in twelve different African dialects, English, Afrikaans, and German.
We spoke with the artist when he had finished recording and he said, "This was a very different kind 
of experience for me.  Usually the prayers are memorized and very loud.  Today I felt a gentleness 
and a calmness in the room.  Even though I could not understand the words they said, 
 I felt a quiet confidence.  I felt secure and connected to something important.  
It was a wonderful spiritual experience for me."

This is the finished product with the artist James Webb.

You could hear the prayers very easily.  You could really tell a difference with our prayers.
They were soft and simple.  Many of the others were loud and more like singing.