Time to leave - until we meet again

The last couple of days we great but also bittersweet that our time is coming to an end.

Saturday we slept in a bit and met at FH to practice some songs for Sunday service. We went shopping downtown with the FH staff. It was nice having some down time.

After that we went to Moses place where his wife Grace prepared a great meal. It was nice to see the whole family minus the 2 older children who were at boarding school. Moses is building a new house that is much bigger than his current home. This will become his retirement home.
 

After that we went to a funeral for one of the teachers mother, Grace is her name, It was an honor to join the celebration of life. The funeral was not in Marare but there were so many people from Marare that joined us.

On the way home Moses took the team for supper at a Mzungu café. It's the place where a lot of white people go. The atmosphere was very Canadian Café like. Almost like a large café.
Since we had some extra time Allan and Moses decided to go for a shave and haircut. Too funny.

Sunday was a difficult day we got up early and then we were off to church where we went to 2 services. Brian, Rita, Allan and Diniz gave a bit of a sermon. Vanessa, Marisa and Ajoo spent time with the children in Sunday school.

We walked to Susan's to pick up our shirts that she made. She is extremely talented. We went back to the main hall for tea afterwards where the ladies group had some crafts for sale. After tea we took a walk to visit the art group. Henry and his team are so talented. We made a few purchases.

We then came back to the main hall for lunch and singing from the children's choir. There wasn't a dry eye on the team. They sang, well will cry cry cry brother Diniz never forget us. They sang that to each team member. They also sang a classic of "for everything that you did for ST James School we will never for get you. Lots and lots of tears were had by all including the children themselves.
 

 

 

Then began the process of saying our goodbye's. You don't realize how much of an impact that you have until people come up to you and thank you and cry with you. There are so many people that I became friends with that impacted me as well as them. It was so hard to say goodbye.

We then went to Mbale Resort for supper with all the FH staff, we said our goodbyes to these amazing people there as well. My heart is full

The people of Marare and the FH staff thank you for all the ears of support and for sending 10 teams.
What a journey, without our support and love none of this would be possible.
By the way so many people were so grateful for the glasses that we gave them including some of the FH staff.
 

There may be more blogging yet to come but that will happen once we return home as a team.