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This is a picture of Charlie carrying the woman I wrote about that is younger than me. We were bringing her back from the woman's HIV support group. We visited her again a couple of times after to see what her needs were and we continue to pray for her. Please pray for healing in her legs and for the laborers to come, she has no one to take her out.




These are some of the children that run after us for hugs and to take their picture. Most of the kids are running around with runny noses and coughs. It is very cold here right not and they do not have jackets or even socks on.




The next few pictures are of Moses and his brother. I wrote about Moses in one of my journal postings. We have taken this family in and put the two boys in school for the first time. You are seeing pics of when we took them to buy school uniforms and on their first day of school. Moses is 10 and his brother 15. They are both small for their age and malnourished. We are also putting food in their home. Please pray for the Lord to direct me to a few people who will join me in sponsoring these boys.










The next couple of pictures are of a woman name Nomatemba. I may have spelled it wrong. Her family is one of the first to have settled in Kayamandi. She is the mother of a young man named Patrick who Charlie first befriended when he came to S. Africa for the first time. Patrick died with the Aids virus. Now her grandson is sick. She lost her husband to a stroke/heart attack and her son and two daughters to AIDS within 3 years. When I first met her, she had called Charlie because her grandson is getting sicker and we went there. She was crying because she could not face this again, the sickness she said. I got that this woman did not usually break under pressure. Please pray for her.










The next couple of pics are from the local Kayamandi Primary where Yamkela (the boy Charlie is adopting), Moses and his brother go to. The kids here are gathering around us for hugs and pictures. I took a pic of the kids around me, the one with the girl directly below the camera wanted so many hugs. She actually has her cheek to my stomache and her arms around me in this pic.









This morning we were at Tspizo's house, which is one room and a bathroom, concrete floor with a brick walls and a tin roof. From outside her door these pictures show the veiw of a stormy sky. In the first pictures you could see the sun bursting through a cloud and a sun ray shining on a green playing field in the far hills.
I have lots more photos and will upload again tomorrow. Those photos will be of where we are staying and a trip to
Gordon's bay.