The USAID/Living Hope Conference ended Wednesday afternoon and went really well! There were about 80 delegates from different faith-based community development non-profit/NGOs and was pretty interesting to be a part of. Wednesday morning the new (as of Monday) US Consulate General of South Africa spoke and I got to meet her, a very fascinating lady!
The conference was essentially a seminar or workshop, but one of the ice breaker/teambuilding excercises they did was to get into groups of about 10 and blow up as many balloons as you can and make the tallest balloon tower possible in 20 minutes. Let me just say, watching a bunch of 30-60 year old adults from all over South Africa blowing up balloons and getting extrememly creative on how to make their balloon tower the tallest was hilarious! There was some cheating and stretching of the rules involved and was so fun to watch.
After all those shenanigans were over, and the winner declared, they all piled up all the balloons (probably close to 1,0000) in a corner, which after the conference we, the volunteers, got to enjoy popping, and then of course cleaning up. But before we cleaned them up, during one of the breaks, one of the conference attendees out of no where jumped straight on top of the huge pile of balloons! A 45 year old man from Pretoria. It was hilarious! He was then given the 10 Rand (US$1.25) from the guy who dared him to do it. However, the best part of all of that was Pastor John Thomas, the Senior Pastor of Fish Hoek Baptist Church and the head of all of Living Hope, rolling around in this huge pile of balloons revealing the child within! I've attached some pictures for your entertainment!
Cheers!
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Very interesting reading! Thanks for sharing what you are experiencing and doing there. Hopefully I'll remember to read now and then and keep up with your ministries! And, of course, to lift you up in prayer. Let us know of any specific requests you have! Blessings, Debby Barto
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