• Crazy but cool kids who really know their bible! – Uncle John, the leader in charge of this centre got them to recite Psalm 1-6 and they did it so well!
• We met a really cool guy called Uncle Friday who has such a heart for the ministry and he is now at Bible College, training to be an EMS missionary.
• One day in Kaduna, I saw a man walking a monkey down the road, past the centre!
• My team went to a nearby field to do some sports coaching/outreach. Quite a few people turned up, so it was all a bit crazy and hard to control. Word had spread that strange white people were in town!
• If I close my eyes and take myself back to Kaduna, I can still smell the drop pit!
• Our matching team traditional outfits that we were given as a gift to thank us!
KADARKO/KAGORO GIDAN BEGE
• The houseparents’ - Uncle Sunday and Aunty Jummai and their children - Ozi, Ruth, Achai and baby Chris – a beautiful little family that I have got to know quite well over the last few months .
Kids that do absolutely anything for you – carry your chair to devotions, wash your plates and offer to wash your clothes, fetch water for you and even accompany you to where we had to sleep when we were to afraid to walk on our own in the dark. They wouldn't let us do anything on our own! They are the most well behaved kids I know!
• Friday – The 18 year old with the most beautiful, soulful voice! If he was in the UK, I would make him enter X-factor! He is so talented. He doesn’t just sing, as he sings, he beats 2 sticks off a bench, as a drum and it sounds class!
• Meeting the Chief of Kadarko
• Speaking and singing in Hausa to the whole congregation on the Sunday morning and getting quite a few laughs! It wasn't meant to be comedy.
MAKURDI GIDAN BEGE
• “How many people wanna let me in..say how many people wanna let me in...are you ready? Are you ready?...Now! Now! Now! Now! Now! Now not tomorrow! ....Are you ready to let Jesus in, are you ready to let Jesus in?” – possibly the best song ever! Cheesetastic it may be but lots a of fun! When I hear this song I just think of 3 precious girls that stay at this centre and love to dance to this – Grace, Mary and Priscilla. They really need your prayers.
• Continuous scratching noises – yep we saw lots of rats, mice and cockroaches!
• Sweating buckets! – Makurdi is in a very warm part of Nigeria.
• A proper football pitch, 5 mins walk from the centre.
• Our team being special guests at a football match.
• Diddy boy – Uncle David’s 3 year old son, who gave most of us bruises.
LAFIYA GIDAN BEGE
• Uncle Bulus: Lynsey I’ve invlted all the children from the community to your programme
Me: Goes slightly pale – Erm Uncle Bulus we only have enough resources for the 17 kids at your centre
Uncle Bulus: Lynsey, trust in God, just watch what he will do. God will provide.
Me: To be totally honest, I was still panicking.
• Instead of 17 kids, we had around 70! And...somehow, the money for the food was enough to feed all 70 kids each day of the programme!..The feeding of the 5000 comes to mind! God is amazing!
• This was definitely the best programme , not just in terms of the organisation, but in terms of the outcome - about 16 kids accepted Christ, many of whom do not come from Christian families. Praise God for Uncle Bulus. If it had not been for his vision to invite the kids from outside the centre, these kids would still not know Christ.
. Shadrach, Meshach and Abendigo! – Uncle Bulus’s 3 little boys! How well did that work out!
. Emma (Emmanuel) You can read his story on my Facebook page.
God blessed us so much and he continued to surprise and amaze us, teach us and challenge us. With God, ALL things are possible!
One last memory overall...
Michael :“One Egusi soup and one Groundnut soooup!”
Mark: “We have no Groundnut soooup!”
Michael: “What! Why did you not tell meeee?” (Slap!)
You would have to be part of our team to understand this really :) ... (Its our team drama)
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