Out Of The Box!

The SuperHero team!!

The B2B team werr off early again today as they headed into Maseru at 7am for more meetings and a tour of the Mmelesi Lodge.  My day took a different turn as I had the opportunity to travel just outside Butha Buthe to join the "Leadership Experience" as they were running a camp for over 80 youth.... www.lxplesotho.com   Now youth here means pretty much kids anywhere from 8yrs old right up to 23yrs old attending the camp.  You can check out their ministry at www.lxplesotho.com  The main leaders are Elizabeth and Godfrey along with Piet and Lisa who recently joined their team. They had just run an abstinence initiative called 'Beat The Drum' to over 1200 youth here with a missions team from Holland, Michigan and this was the follow up camp. The theme is "Out Of The Box" and they also attend Pastor James church and that is how I heard about them and this opportunity.  The camp is taking place at Emmanuel High School as youth are off this week with Independence Day on Thursday.

Andy graciously let me use his Toyota Helix and the first task at camp was to move desks out of the classrooms and then load the groceries and move them into the classroom that Rita and her group of ladies would be cooking out of.  After I went with Godfrey into Butha Buthe and we loaded up the luggage from the kids and the vans taking them followed us with them singing right behind us.


Loading up the kids luggage on the back of Andy's pick up!

We arrived at the school and Elizabeth had it all under control at registration with her team.  She divided the youth and leaders into teams and my team just happened to be the 'superheros'....where is my Captain Canada outfit??!  could have used that forsure although knowing these kids I would have been mauled.


Elizabeth overseeing the registration table.

We then went on a mass scavenger hunt with our teams and we bonded together as we crawled under spider-web like mazes, created pyramids and built structures together.  Supper was next on the agenda and that was a new experience for me as I ate pap, cabbage with onions and peppers and sausage mixed with tomatoes and then I looked for a fork...no fork, no spoon.  The food wasn't new, but eating with my hands was a first since being here!

Next was the first session and I was treated to passionate and exhuberant worship experience filled with dancing, conga lines and a lot of laughter as I tried to keep up with their moves!  We sang songs like "Lift Jesus Higher"  great memories of that song from camp days and 'Trading My Sorrows'.  The message focused on getting 'Out of the Box' as Leah shared from Genesis 13 on the life of Abram and

 John 10:10

I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.

Praise, worship and dancing in the classroom!

This verse truly embodies what they leaders are giving to the youth here.  The message was on living life to the full, dreaming big and realizing also how the enemy is the thief and wants to keep us from experiencing that fulness.  A time of prayer followed with more worship music and I prayed together with Lackey.

Rita as she prays with a young girl



My day ended there but the youth were still going strong and they were off to Capture The Flag with lit torches!

I have been given the option of sleeping over and I build up my stamina for that as all the guys and girls cram in separate classrooms and they just cover the floor with mattresses and I'm sure you get lots of sleep!

Peace out from Lesotho!

more pics from camp...everyone wants in on the action!