Liberia Update - Rocky Alderman

Here in Liberia, we’re just beginning our second week of instruction beginning with a volleyball unit. Our first week consisted of the solid days of basketball, ranging from teaching the basics on the first day to playing games on Thursday. Soccer is almost unanimously the favorite sport of the children, so they were all excited to be learning and playing something different despite the challenges and struggles they faced while learning new skills. The effort and excitement brought by the group as a whole each day was great to see. We finished out with a day of competitions on Friday and joined in on a kickball game the children started Saturday.
 
Sunday marked the first day that we left our village when we went to church. Kyle and I went with the middle age group of boys. This marked my first church service I had attended outside of the United States. The passion the congregation showed for the Lord and for each other was genuine and real in a way I had rarely seen before. I had to ask the boys and their mama to help me understand a few parts of the service as it followed a different routine than what I was used to following back home. Through the differences and similarities, it was very easy to see that Christ was at the center making it no different from the church I’m used to back home.
 
Sunday afternoon, we watched a movie with the children and relaxed to catch our breath after a busy first week, but not until after a small church service the children had prepared for each other. The girls opened in a song they had performed at church earlier in the day followed by the sermon given by one of the boys who had spoken the same message at his church the week before. He read from Mark 10:13-16. Verse 15 tells us that Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” It was a perfect reminder for me while ending a week of finding myself in childlike state of love for God and His people in Liberia.

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