Ladies of the Light

On Saturday, the Ladies of the Chisamba Dutch Reformed church hosted a tea.  There were 11 of us from the Village of Hope who attended at the invitation of Erna, one of our teachers and the wife of the pastor.  The teachers, housemothers, aunties, Kimberly, visitors and couple of others went.  It was held at Fringilla and was a lovely event, held on the verandah of one of the buildings there.  Each plate had a variety of foods that might be appropriate for Bible times.  Down the middle of the table were fruits and nuts and other things to eat.  The speaker was a pediatrician who lives in the community but is from South Africa.  In the last year she has had uterine and cervical cancer, surgery and chemo.  She was a very lovely and articulate young woman.  There was music and special numbers.

Ladies were invited to dress up as women of the Bible.  I just wore one of the dresses I had been given in Ghana and took a tambourine.  I was "Miriam" who led the children of Israel in song after crossing the Red Sea.

It was a lovely morning on a beautiful day.