Praise Rally in Jembo.....

On Sunday we had the opportunity to visit Jembo Bible College and Jembo Clinic! The car ride was only about 1.5 hours long and the road was paved about half of the way there. The second half of the drive was the bumpiest road that we have driven on so far! But I thought it was a lot of fun! :) We finally arrived at Jembo and the missionaries, who live there, made us lunch and took us on a tour of the Bible college. Following the lunch we headed over to the church where the praise rally was to be held. The rally served about 500 youth and praise and worship took up about 1.5-2 hours of the service. There were 3 different choirs and a various amount of independent singers! Our group sang 2 songs with some motions! It was so much fun to be able to take part in one of their worship services. An American missionary spoke for about half an hour and we concluded our time together with about 5 young men praying for Christ to come into their lives. It was such a blessing to be a part of that service! We formed a long greeting line outside the church and spent about 20 minutes shaking everyone's hands!
A young girl took me by the shoulder and asked if she could take me on a tour around the girl's dormitories. We walked through each of the 3 wings of the dorms and looked at the 25 rusted bunk beds. Each wing had 25 beds, however, in the guys dorms many of the young men had to double bunk--2 guys per mattress. The girl, who was giving me the tour, told me that she wanted to become a pharmacist and that she would love to run her own pharmacy. I told her that that would be a wonderful job and that she would be a great pharmacist! That made her really excited. It was really hard to leave, because right before we left she said, "I don't want you to leave, because I will miss you so much. We were blessed from you guys coming." They were so sweet and really excited to have some visitors for the day! We left and followed the long, bumpy road back to the compound, had a meeting and then went to bed.