Hope News by Paul, Mary S, and Nelson

Hope News by Paul Kalangwa
During the weekend 25 visitors came to our Village for one night.
They came in the afternoon. Then we helped them make their tents.
Then we told all the boys to come and play soccer with us. So we went
their and we played soccer. Then there was a funny big boy who was 16
years old. He made his friends laugh, so we finished playing soccer.
Then we big boys went to fetch some sticks for the campfire. We
cleaned the trench where we make the campfire. Then we went to eat
dinner.

After dinner we big boys went to light the fire. Then the people
started coming. We sang and danced around. At last we prayed. Then
we went to sleep.

Then on Sunday morning we went to church. We were going to sing.
Then the time came so the people came. Pastor Zulu was the one who
was preaching. He talked about Moses and Isaac and Rebekah, how they
got married.

So the church was over, then we went home. The mothers cooked some
nshima and cabbage. Then at Uncle Ben's house they were baking
sausages. We ate together – all the visitors, all the mothers and
children, even Uncle Ben and Auntie Kathleen and Pastor Zulu and his
wife and the interpreter.

Hope News by Mary Situmbeko

On Sunday we went to church. We sang lots of songs. Pastor Zulu
preached the message about Abraham. On Saturday we had visitors.
Their names were Hannah, Elizabeth, Kathleen, Faith, TK, Moses,
Stephen, Isaiah. We even had lunch at Aunt Kathleen's house with the
visitors. Auntie Rachel was there. The mothers made nshima. Uncle
Paul cooked food for us. We did spend a lot of time at Aunt
Kathleen's house. I wished all the teachers were there. It was a
great and happy day for me and all the children of Village of Hope.

Then we washed the plates. The mothers told us to sweep the verandah
and we did everything.

Hope News by Nelson

On Saturday when we finished our breakfast, Uncle Ben came to our
house. And he found that our tap was not off. He was sad because the
people who were going to come and camp would find water on their
place. Then Uncle Ben told Mommy Rose C. to tell us that we had to
clean the place where the visitors are going to sleep. Then Mommy
Rose C. told us to clean the place.

Then Shaibu brought an idea that we must put dirt on the water then
the water will dry up. Then we did what Shaibu told us to do. Then
the water dried up. Then we cleaned and cleaned and the place became
clean.

When the visitors came, they removed their tents. Then the women
said, "we are going to see which tent is going to be up first." Then
they all made their tents up, but not on the same time. Then we went
to play soccer with other visitors. Then their was one uncle who was
very fun. When we played and it was half time, we went to drink
water. Uncle Brainy made a joke and we laughed and laughed. Then we
went to play football again.

On Sunday when we had our breakfast finished we went to church and we
sang and sang. Then Pastor Zulu gave us a sermon. When we came back
from church we went to play with the visitors while the mothers were
preparing lunch. When the food was ready to be eaten our mothers
said, "You must wait until the elders are finished." When the elders
finished we went on a line and they gave us food. And it was very
nice and it tasted yummy and everybody enjoyed.