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Time WaitingPosted on December 8th, 2011For the next few days pay attention to the time you spend waiting. In the morning with sleepy eyes – drip, drip, drip – water runs through ground coffee beans. Waiting in traffic. Waiting at the grocery. Waiting on your 4 year old to tie his shoes. Waiting for a phone call from the person who makes your heart flutter. Customer service, do you find yourself waiting to exchange or return items this time of year? What do you do in those moments of waiting? Do you find yourself frustrated, thankful, indifferent? Could these moments of waiting be a gift? An opportunity to focus inward; inward to the quite place where Christ dwells within. In the Psalms we are reminded: Wait for the Lord; Be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord (27:14 NIV). If you read the same verse in The Message the word wait does not appear, instead you will read stay. Stay with God! Take heart. Don’t quit. I’ll say it again: Stay with God. As Kids Across Africa quietly waited, remember we were not standing still. We stayed. Continue to stay with us, following how our year, 2011, unfolded. I will let the following paragraph written by the men’s director of Camp KIVU, Luke Parrott, further explain how we began:
We are excited to share, 2012 will begin much the same way. Kids Across Africa will again host KIVU Gap Year students. The projects will be different, but the mission the same; Working in Leadership towards a new Future. We look forward to sharing with you the stories of their work, relationships and experience in Rwanda. But you must wait. They do not arrive in Rwanda until mid-January. *photo appears courtesy of camp KIVU |
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In January and February of this year, KIVU Gap Year was hosted by Kids Across Africa for 6 weeks of experiential education in the northern province of Musanze. Kids Across Africa gave 8 American students the opportunity to work alongside the local Rwandan people in systems of both education and business. Students were also given the opportunity to travel the countryside and see the beauty of progress and struggle as Rwanda heals and moves well beyond the dark days of it’s past. Thank to Kids Across Africa, our gap year students were able to walk away with a better understanding of East African economics and politics, as well as a personal encounter with the youth of a local school where they were able to teach English.
