Showing Mercy

* Side note: This was all most ready to post when the MTN (Internet provider for the city) went down. Better late than never.

Yesterday we went out to Kalete (sp?) where Show Mercy's new property is. Our purpose was just to continue to build relationships with villagers in the area and lay the ground work for Show Mercy staff being out there all the time. We had the opportunity to minister to about 40 physically handicapped individuals. And Kalete is not actually "handicapped accessible." These folks lead a hard life. After that we headed back to the orphanage where we heard about 12 of the kids tell their "stories." One told of her father killing her mother before killing himself, another told of both of her parents dieing so she became a "housemaid" (read: slave) to earn a living but didn't do a good enough job so was beaten daily. The terrible stories go on and on and the kids struggled to share but Pastor Prossy (the women who cares for them) encourages them for the sake of healing and remembering where they were. This morning we spent several hours handing out blankets in the children's cancer wards. I have some serious emotional fatigue going on and I think I need to process a little more before I talk much about it. But on a more positive note our plans are firmed up and Sunday at 9am we head out of the city! Tomorrow we head to Victoria falls to take a much needed day off.