Follow The Gruddas

A quick photo blog to let you know some of the things that have been going on during our past week... We had two short term visitors from California, Joy and Tim (you'll see more pictures of them below). They came to work with the children for our WorldVenture retreat for Mali and Guinea (more pictures and information on that soon!), but were also able to spend a week with us in Kankan, learning about everyone's ministries there. They were a huge blessing and a "joy" to be around (pun intended!). In fact, we have Tim to thank for these beautiful photos!

These are some of the multitude of kids that live and play in our neighborhood in Kankan.

These girls, who were playing across the street from our house, were very excited to have their picture taken. They spent the better part of 15 minutes striking poses and waving for the camera.

On two separate occasions last week we were able to assist Brenda Allen in her after school class she teaches. Normally the class focuses on health and better living, but this week she gave the kids a chance to practice the English they learn in school on some native English speakers... us!

The first group of students are middle schoolers and the second group (directly above) are in high school.

We also had the opportunity last week to visit The Samaritan's Children's Center, an organization that helps to feed and tutor at-risk students (children who may live with family members, instead of their own parents).

This is the building the Samaritan Children's Center works out of. There is a big area in which they feed the children after school and then multiple rooms where the kids, by age, receive teaching and help with their homework.

This is Brandon with the three Kendall kids before we headed out for our retreat

And this is (obviously) me with Becky Kendall and our newfound friend, Joy.

It was fun to be encouraged by the presence of our short term visitors and to hopefully ignite a love of Africa in a few more people!

-Hannah