On Sabbath we took the church service at Light of Hope. As the day came I started to realise how unprepared everyone was, a testimony was ditched, a special item was ditched and we had no idea what order we would do things. Even though we had a music team and people doing sermons we had no one overlooking the whole thing. So it was a bit frantic and no one knew what to do. Aaron, Joel and I all took a sermon, our topic was Ephesians 2:8-9 “for it is by grace you have been saved through faith, not by works so that no one can boast, it is a gift from God.” Leading up to this I was a bit nervous about delivering my sermon, but as soon as I started talking the nerves instantly disappeared.

Joel started off by talking about grace throughout the Old Testament, he specifically talked about Moses and the Bronze Snake emphasising that is was not through works that the Israelites were saved but it was by looking. I took the second part, talking about Nicodemus and how we need to simplify and go back to Jesus, accepting the grace he offered. Aaron finished off, by talking about what grace does for us and how it empowers us. Overall the talk went overtime due to translation however, despite all the setbacks I think it was pretty successful.

In the afternoon we took craft with some of the kids, our theme was Noah’s Ark and the kids created their own Noah’s ark out of plates. However, they ended up turning into frisbees. Craft is definitely not my forte, so I kind of misled some kids in drawing a dog. The best part of the afternoon was seeing Kerry perform a last minute one man skit on Noah’s Ark. He played like 5 characters all at the same time, which was really impressive.

The day finished with a cultural concert that the ICC kids performed for us. They did many dances that we had to watch very carefully because they later asked us to perform it, which we epically failed. One thing I just love about Light of Hope is the atmosphere, it’s really hard to describe and can’t really be explained without experiencing it yourself. After the concert the kids came on our truck home and everyone was singing songs, such as “No one like Jesus,” This new song about the spirit living in us and “Jesus Loves Me.” All in all it was awesome jam packed day that I’ll never forget.